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Tanya Talaga

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Tanya Talaga is the acclaimed author of Seven Fallen Feathers, a multi-award winner including the RBC Taylor Prize, the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, and the First Nation Communities READ: Young Adult/Adult Award. The book was a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Nonfiction Prize and the BC National Award for Nonfiction.

Talaga was the 2018 CBC Massey Lecturer, and is the author of the US bestseller All Our Relations. For more than 20 years, she has been a journalist at the Toronto Star. Talaga is of Polish and Ojibwe descent. Her grandmother is a member of Fort William First Nation. She lives in Toronto with her two teenage children.

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Broadly Speaking

Power, Privilege and Pushing Back

Amy McQuire, Lauren Michele Jackson, Tanya Talaga, Nyadol Nyuon

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16 Sep
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