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The world's Indigenous communities are fighting to live and dying
too young. In this vital and incisive work, Tanya Talaga explores
intergenerational trauma and the alarming rise of youth suicide.
From Northern Ontario to Nunavut, Norway, Brazil, Australia, and
the United States, the Indigenous experience in colonised nations
is startlingly similar and deeply disturbing. It is an experience
marked by the violent separation of Peoples from the land, the
separation of families, and the separation of individuals from
traditional ways of life - all of which has culminated in a
spiritual separation that has had an enduring impact on generations
of Indigenous children. As a result of this colonial legacy, too
many communities today lack access to the basic determinants of
health - income, employment, education, a safe environment, health
services - leading to a mental health and youth suicide crisis on a
global scale. But, Talaga reminds us, First Peoples also share a
history of resistance, resilience, and civil rights activism, from
the Occupation of Alcatraz led by the Indians of All Tribes, to the
Northern Ontario Stirland Lake Quiet Riot, to the Standing Rock
protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline, which united
Indigenous Nations from across Turtle Island in solidarity. All Our
Relations is a powerful call for action, justice, and a better,
more equitable world for all Indigenous Peoples.
The groundbreaking and multiple award-winning national bestseller
work about systemic racism, education, the failure of the policing
and justice systems, and Indigenous rights by Tanya Talaga. Over
the span of eleven years, seven Indigenous high school students
died in Thunder Bay, Ontario. They were hundreds of kilometres away
from their families, forced to leave home because there was no
adequate high school on their reserves. Five were found dead in the
rivers surrounding Lake Superior, below a sacred Indigenous site.
Using a sweeping narrative focusing on the lives of the students,
award-winning author Tanya Talaga delves into the history of this
northern city that has come to manifest Canada's long struggle with
human rights violations against Indigenous communities.
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