The Knowing by Tanya Talaga
What drew me to Tanya Talaga’s The Knowing is Kent Monkman’s incredibly vivid painting called The Scoop that is reproduced on the cover. It is a terrifying and infuriating image of Mounties, priests and nuns tearing Indigenous children away from their desperate parents in order to take them to residential schools. Talaga’s book is about Canada’s dark history of the segregation and forced assimilation of Indigenous peoples. This is an important book to read if you want to understand why residential schools have had a lasting, traumatic impact on generations of Indigenous families.
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