Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City

Winner, 2017 Shaughnessy Cohen Writers' Trust Prize for Political Writing

Winner, 2017 RBC Taylor Prize

Winner, 2017 First Nation Communities Read: Young Adult/Adult

Winner, 2024 Blue Metropolis First Peoples Prize, for the whole of her work

Finalist, 2017 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction


The groundbreaking and multiple award-winning national bestseller about systemic racism, education, the failure of the policing and justice systems, and Indigenous rights by Tanya Talaga.


Over the span of eleven years, seven Indigenous high school students died in Thunder Bay, Ontario. They were hundreds of kilometres away from their families, forced to leave home because there was no adequate high school on their reserves. Five were found dead in the rivers surrounding Lake Superior, below a sacred Indigenous site. Using a sweeping narrative focusing on the lives of the students, award-winning author Tanya Talaga delves into the history of this northern city that has come to manifest Canada’s long struggle with human rights violations against Indigenous communities.