The Knowing: How the Oppression of Indigenous Peoples Continues to Echo Today gender studies Little Bear

Little Bear

food sovereignty activists

of family and self

and survival into a multi-generational and multi-species tapestry that reaches from the distant stars visible in an Appalachian holler to the curl of a clover stem and the touch of the beloved

the book-length poem surfaces a first-person narrative amidst the stream of history and its accounting through the voices of ancestors and kin

The Knowing: How the Oppression of Indigenous Peoples Continues to Echo Today gender studies Little BearFrom award winning and bestselling Anishinaabe author Tanya Talaga comes a riveting exploration of the dark history of residential schools, "Indian hospitals" and asylums. For generations, Indigenous People have known that their family members disappeared, many of them after being consigned to a coordinated system designed to destroy who the First Nations, Mtis and Inuit people are. This is one of Canada's greatest open secrets, an unhealed wound that