The knowing / Tanya Talaga.
Material type: TextPublication details: Toronto, Ontario : HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2024.Edition: 1st edDescription: 466 p. : ill., map ; 25 cmISBN:- 9781443467506 (hardcover)
- 971.004/97 23
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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900 - 999 | West Grey Durham Branch Shelves | Non-fiction | 971.004 TAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Checked out | 09/27/2024 | 33321003251742 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
For generations, Indigenous People have known that their family members disappeared, many of them after being sent to residential schools, "Indian hospitals" and asylums through a coordinated system designed to destroy who the First Nations, Metis and Inuit people are. This is one of Canada's greatest open secrets, an unhealed wound that until recently lay hidden by shame and abandonment. The Knowing is the unfolding of Canadian history unlike anything we have ever read before. Anishinaabe author Tanya Talaga retells the history of this country as only she can--through an Indigenous lens, beginning with the life of her great-great grandmother Annie Carpenter and her family as they experienced decades of government- and Church-sanctioned enfranchisement and genocide. Deeply personal and meticulously researched, The Knowing is a seminal unravelling of the centuries-long oppression of Indigenous People that continues to reverberate in these communities today.
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