Tanya Talaga is an award-winning journalist. She won a National Newspaper Award as part of a year-long team project on the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh and also was a part of the team nominated for a National Newspaper Award for their series of stories on murdered and missing indigenous women and girls.
Tanya was the first journalist to cover the story of the seven missing Aboriginal kids in Thunder Bay.
Recently, indigenous issues have come to the fore in the U.S. media, with the 2016 Native American protest against the Dakota Access oil pipeline.
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Tanya Talaga is an award-winning journalist. She won a National Newspaper Award as part of a year-long team project on the Rana Plaza disaster...
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...
The world’s Indigenous communities are fighting to live and dying too young. In this vital and incisive work, Tanya Talaga explores intergenerationa...