Tanya Talaga In Conversation with Jenene Wooldridge

Name: Tanya Talaga In Conversation with Jenene Wooldridge
Start: 2024-11-07T19:00:00-04:00
Location: University of Prince Edward Island

Schedule

Thu Nov 07 2024 at 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

University of Prince Edward Island | Charlottetown, PE

Bookmark and UPEI’s Faculty of Indigenous Knowledge, Education, Research and Applied Studies are thrilled to be welcoming Tanya Talaga to Charlottetown for the launch of her new book The Knowing on Thursday, November 7th at 7 pm in the new Performing Arts Centre at UPEI. The evening will be moderated by Jenene Wooldridge, Executive Director of L’nuey. Anyone who wishes to engage in Truth and Reconciliation shouldn’t miss this important conversation.
This free, ticketed event is open to everyone. Tickets are available online by clicking the link below or by calling the store at 902-566-4888.
Get your tickets online here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/tanya-talaga-in-conversation-with-jenene-wooldridge-tickets-1042270046767
Please note: this event will discuss a number of challenging topics including, but not limited to, historical traumas, the Residential School System, sexual abuse, and suicide.
From Tanya Talaga, the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of Seven Fallen Feathers, comes a riveting exploration of her family’s story and a retelling of the history of the country we now call Canada
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, Métis 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. Award-winning and bestselling 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.
Praise for The Knowing
“The Knowing is everything we’ve come to expect from a Tanya Talaga book – meticulous research, impassioned advocacy, searing prose. But this is her most personal story yet, an epic re-telling of one family’s story that illuminates both the repugnant history of Indian residential schools in Canada and the inspiring reclamation of Indigenous identities.”—Duncan McCue, author of Decolonizing Journalism: A Guide to Reporting in Indigenous Communities
“As Tanya Talaga investigates the story of her great-great grandmother's fate, she lays bare the dark history of a nation. This is about a Canada that you do not know, but one we all must confront. The Knowing is harrowing, illuminating and necessary reading.”—Carol Off, author of At a Loss for Words
“The Knowing is a masterwork by one of our most essential storytellers. Tanya Talaga once again bears witness to the truth and shares it with searing clarity and a deep compassion. She exposes history denied and compels a new understanding of the Canadian story. The Knowing is deeply researched and urgent storytelling at its finest. At a time when journalism is in crisis, Tanya Talaga shows us the power of rigorous and thorough reportage and in doing so honors the survivors and their descendants with the gift of truth. This may be my favorite book ever.”—Jesse Wente, author of Unreconciled
TANYA TALAGA is of Anishinaabe and Polish descent, was born and raised in Toronto and is a member of Fort William First Nation. She is the acclaimed author of the national bestseller Seven Fallen Feathers, which won the RBC Taylor Prize, the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing and the First Nation Communities Read: Young Adult/Adult Award. She is also the author of the national bestseller All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward. For more than twenty years she was a journalist at the Toronto Star and is now a regular columnist at the Globe and Mail. Tanya Talaga is the founder of Makwa Creative, a production company formed to elevate Indigenous voices and stories.
JENENE WOOLDRIDGE is a proud Mi’kmaq and member of Abegweit First Nation. She currently serves as Executive Director of L’nuey – the Epekwitk Mi’kmaq Rights Initiative. She was named one of the top 25 most powerful women in business by Atlantic Business Magazine in 2021. Jenene is also a CBC Mainstreet Columnist, CBC First Person Contributor, Living Full Circle Author and Speaker.