![]() Stories of reporting missing sisters and having police laugh as well as detailed accounts of the trauma the residential school system inflicted. ![]() Both only begin to highlight the injustices Indigenous people in Canada have faced.īoth reports use real anecdotes from Indigenous people to outline the problems plaguing them. Talaga’s book touches on the topics covered in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s report released in 2015 and the final report for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls released in June of this year. Residential schools, missing and murdered Indigenous women, suicide epidemics, systematic racism and the blatant ignorance of the justice system, are all brought to light in just 315 pages. A history that many don’t know is stained with red. The deaths set the stage for a much deeper conversation and give Talaga an opening to dive into Indigenous history in Canada. Talaga’s novel pulls no punches when it comes to the truth and forces the readers to open their eyes to the horrors of Canada’s best-kept secret: Indigenous genocide. The stories of Indigenous people being verbally harassed, physically assaulted, terrified to speak to law enforcement and ultimately killed aren’t buried by the police like they were for decades prior as stated in the book. With each death, there is a string of unfollowed police protocols such as missing persons reports being filed several days after the 24-hour mark, police not contacting families to notify them that their children were missing, interviewing under-aged youth without a parent present and not notifying a family when their children’s body had been found. ![]() The deaths of Jethro Anderson, Curran Strang, Robyn Harper, Paul Panacheese, Kyle Morisseau, Reggie Bushie and Jordan Wabasse, and the lack of information around them sparked an inquest into the justice system in Thunder Bay. and how no one knows the truth about how five of them ended up in the rivers surrounding Lake Superior. The novel, published in 2017, tells the stories of seven Indigenous youth who died while attending school in Thunder Bay, Ont. ![]()
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