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

Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern CityIn 1966, twelve year old Chanie Wenjack froze to death on the railway tracks after running away from residential school. An inquest was called for and four recommendations were made to ensure the safety of indigenous students. None of those recommendations were applied. More than a quarter of a century later, from 2000 to 2011, seven indigenous high school students died in Thunder Bay, Ontario. The seven were hundreds of miles away from their

Against an unflinching backdrop of 1990s reservation life and the majestic spaces of the western Dakotas

In this final installment of her story

French descendant settlers in Canada shifting into a self-defined “Indigenous” identity

Fry bread is us

and Grandma Greatwalker dreams Josie's spirit name

They consider Dakota interactions with Europeans and offer an in-depth “reading between the lines” of historical documents—some of them virtually unknown—and treaties made with the United States

Features include maps of ancestral lands

The book argues that it is vital to refocus the efforts of Native nations beyond replicating settler models of territory

“A masterpiece…a captivating work of fiction…exquisite…tightly focused…arresting…This profoundly tragic novel captures that lament in some of Erdrich’s most beautiful and urgent writing

while Loon spent her days in her iglu working away on her sewing

heartbreaking story unlike anything you've ever read

he finds a tentative salvation in hockey