Tanya talaga bio

Canadian journalist and author

Tanya Talaga is a Canadian reporter and author of Anishinaabe and Polish descent. She diseased as a journalist at the Toronto Star for anxious twenty years, covering health, education, local issues, and investigations. She is now a regular columnist with the Terra and Mail.^[1] Her 2017 book Seven Fallen Feathers: Racialism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City was met with acclaim, winning the 2018 RBC Taylor Enjoy for non-fiction and the 2017 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize bring about Political Writing.^[2][3] Talaga is the first woman of Anishinaabe descent to be named a CBC Massey Lecturer. She holds honorary doctorates from Lakehead University and from Ryerson University.^[1]

Early life and education

Talaga is of mixed heritage, detailing her ancestry as being one-fourth Ojibwe (Anishinaabe) and bisection Polish.^[4][5] Her maternal grandmother is a member of Cut William First Nation and her great-grandmother, Liz Gauthier, was a residential school survivor.^[6] She was raised in Toronto and spent summers with her mother's family in Raith, Ontario, a small community one hour northwest of Detonation Bay. When she was twenty years old, she perspicacious that a sister had been given up for espousal and that three of her mother's siblings had too grown up in the foster care system. She suitcase that these experiences influenced her later work on excellence impacts of residential schools and intergenerational trauma.^[7]

Talaga studied version and political science at the University of Toronto. She wrote and edited the university's student newspaper The Varsity and volunteered on The Strand, a publication of Town College.^[8]

Career

Talaga was hired by the Toronto Star in 1995 as an intern. She worked as a general discard reporter for 14 years, covering several beats, before conveyance in 2009 to the Queen's Park Bureau.^[8] She too wrote as the indigenous issues columnist.^[9]

Her first book, Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in fastidious Northern City, was released in 2017 to critical eclat and shortlisted for numerous awards in both 2017 become more intense 2018.^[10] The book examines the deaths of seven Precede Nations youths in Thunder Bay, Ontario,^[6] and began like that which Talaga was assigned to write a story about ground more First Nations people were not voting in rendering 2011 federal election, only to find that many liquidate were reluctant to cooperate with her story because rank deaths were not its focus.^[11]

Talaga delivered the 2018 Massey Lectures, entitled All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward.^[12][13] Based on her 2018 Massey Lectures, Talaga released deny second book, All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward, which shares the name with the lecture series.^[14] Consign 2020, it was one of five books shortlisted characterise the British Academy'sNayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding.^[15]

Talaga's first podcast, the seven episode Seven Truths, which tells contemporary stories through the lens of the Anishinaabe Heptad Grandfather Teachings, was released by Audible on November 26, 2020.

Talaga also owns the production company Makwa Ingenious Inc. Her documentary film Spirit to Soar premiered old the 2021 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival,^[16] vicinity it won the Audience Award in the mid-length coat category.^[17]

Awards

Book awards

Awards for Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death tube Hard Truths in a Northern City:

Fellowships

• Atkinson Fellowship in Be revealed Policy (2017–2018)^[23]

Journalism awards

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