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All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward is a 2018 book by Anishinaabe journalist Tanya Talaga about the colonisation of Indigenous peoples in Canada and internationally.
Jul 31, 2018 · Tanya Talaga's award-winning book examines the link between cultural genocide and youth suicide in Canada and beyond. She also highlights some strategies and stories of hope and healing in the face of this crisis.
- Lecture 1 in Thunder Bay: We Were Always Here
- Lecture 2 in Halifax: Big Brother's Hunger
- Lecture 3 in Vancouver: The Third Space
- Lecture 4 in Saskatoon: 'I Breathe For Them'
- Lecture 5 in Toronto: We Are Not Going Anywhere
The lecture series begins with the troubling epidemic of suicide, particularly among young people, in Indigenous communities everywhere. This is an outcome, Talaga argues, of a long-seated policy of colonisation that expressly denies Indigenous people everywhere of the basic "determinants of health": the right to clean water, safe homes, access to ...
And then there's the issue of land. One of the tools of colonisation, Tanya Talaga argues, has been the forced severing of Indigenous people from their land. It's had a devastating effect on Indigenous people's sense of identity. We hear the story of Ed Metatawabin in Northern Ontario, who is trying to counter all this by re-introducing young Indig...
Kinship, inclusion, equity and acceptance: these are values of Indigenous peoples everywhere. But they have also inherited a similar combined history of broken treaties and racist laws, broken families, and the separation from the traditional way of life. An Anishinaabe child is brought up to respect and relate to the earth in a complex, symbiotic,...
Generations of Indigenous children have grown up without the basic determinants of health: clean water, safe houses, supportive families. Talaga argues that a people's health is the outcome of their social and political circumstances. Equally important to Indigenous peoples is the access to effective alternative medicines. When Indigenous people we...
Indigenous peoples have been subjected to genocide in many places: Canada, Australia, Brazil, even the Arctic Circle. But Talaga points out that First Peoples have a history of resistance. She recounts a student revolt at a residential school, explaining why it's symptomatic of a general revolt: Indigenous people in Canada have been planning and mo...
All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward is an impeccably researched and unflinching documentation of how both colonial histories and ongoing genocidal practices have created the suicide crisis among Indigenous youth across the globe.
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- House of Anansi Press
- $19.75
- Tanya Talaga
Jun 27, 2018 · All Our Relations. Every single year in Canada, one-third of all deaths among Indigenous youth are due to suicide. Studies indicate youth between the ages of ten and nineteen, living on...
Oct 16, 2018 · A nonfiction book about the global crisis of Indigenous youth suicide and the history of resistance and resilience of First Peoples. Based on the author's Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy, it is a call for action, justice, and a better world for all Indigenous Peoples.
“As Winona LaDuke’s All Our Relations shows, a vital Native American environmentalism is linking indigenous peoples throughout North America and Hawaii in the fight to protect and restore their health, culture, and the ecosystems on their lands. LaDuke herself is a member of the Anishinaabeg nation and was Ralph Nader’s Green
