Tanya Talaga Biography
Tanya Talaga is an Anishinaabe Canada journalist and author. An investigative reporter for the Toronto Star, she is most noted for her 2017 book Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death and Hard Truths in a Northern City, which won the 2018 RBC Taylor Prize for non-fiction and the 2017 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing.
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Tanya Talaga Career
Talaga’s journalism work with the Toronto Star has focused on Indigenous people and issues in Canada.
Her first book, Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death and Hard Truths in a Northern City was released in 2017 to critical acclaim and shortlisted for numerous awards in both 2017 and 2018. The book examines the deaths of seven First Nations youths in Thunder Bay, Ontario, and began when Talaga was assigned to write a story about why more First Nations people weren’t voting in the 2011 federal election, only to find that many people were reluctant to cooperate with her story because the deaths weren’t its focus.
Talaga delivered the 2018 Massey Lectures, entitled All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward.
Awards
- RBC Taylor Prize for Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death and Hard Truths in a Northern City (2018)
- Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death and Hard Truths in a Northern City (2018)
- Finalist for B.C. National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction for Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death and Hard Truths in a Northern City (2018)
- Nominee, Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction for Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death and Hard Truths in a Northern City (2018)
- Finalist for Speaker’s Book Award (2017)
- Atkinson Fellow in Public Policy (2017-2018)
- National Newspaper Award for the Gone Series (2015)
- National Newspaper Award, year-long project on the Rana Plaza building collapse. (2013)
- Michener Award in public service journalism, nominee
Tanya Talaga Articles
Indigenous health care needs won’t be served by Ford government’s plan
thestar.com — THUNDER BAY—In 2019, the days should be long gone when “white men in ties” decide what is the best way to deliver health care to Indigenous people. After 150 years of colonialism — of Indian residential schools, of the Indian Act and the presence of Indian hospitals where First Nations and Métis people received second-class health care — the power of health-care decision making should not be left in patriarchal hands so clearly linked to the past.
The blowback to the word genocide proves the national inquiry report was right
thestar.com — I should have anticipated the blowback to the final report of the National Inquiry into Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls. I should have realized as I listened to question after question from non-Indigenous journalists during the formal release how much the pushback would hurt, that Indigenous people would be reminded, once again, of the great gulf of misunderstanding between ourselves and Canada.
Tanya Talaga Net worth / Salary
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