About this Event
Bookmark and UPEI’s Faculty of Indigenous Knowledge, Education, Research and Applied Studies are thrilled to be welcoming Tanya Talaga to Charlottetown for the launch of her new book The Knowing on Thursday, November 7th at 7 pm in the new Performing Arts Centre at UPEI. The evening will be moderated by Jenene Wooldridge, Executive Director of L’nuey.
This free, ticketed event is open to everyone. Anyone who wishes to engage in Truth and Reconciliation shouldn’t miss this important conversation. Please note: this event will discuss a number of challenging topics including, but not limited to, historical traumas, the Residential School System, sexual abuse, and suicide.
From Tanya Talaga, the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of Seven Fallen Feathers, comes a riveting exploration of her family’s story and a retelling of the history of the country we now call Canada.
For generations, Indigenous People have known that their family members disappeared, many of them after being sent to residential schools, “Indian hospitals” and asylums through a coordinated system designed to destroy who the First Nations, Métis and Inuit people are. This is one of Canada’s greatest open secrets, an unhealed wound that until recently lay hidden by shame and abandonment.
The Knowing is the unfolding of Canadian history unlike anything we have ever read before. Award-winning and bestselling Anishinaabe author Tanya Talaga retells the history of this country as only she can—through an Indigenous lens, beginning with the life of her great-great grandmother Annie Carpenter and her family as they experienced decades of government- and Church-sanctioned enfranchisement and genocide.
Deeply personal and meticulously researched, The Knowing is a seminal unravelling of the centuries-long oppression of Indigenous People that continues to reverberate in these communities today.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
University of Prince Edward Island, 550 University Avenue, Charlottetown, Canada
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