FOLD Executive Director, Jael Richardson, to host author Tanya Talaga at the next Brampton Library Author Talk Series.
On Wednesday, December 11 at 7:30pm at the Brampton Library Springdale Branch, Jael and Tanya will be talking about Tanya’s newest book, The Knowing.
The Knowing is a riveting exploration of Tanya’s 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 Knowingis 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.
This event is free, but requires registration. REGISTER TODAY.
Join Jael as she reads The Knowing by Tanya Talaga.
READING SCHEDULE
- Week 1 (November 26) – Finish Chapter 5
- Week 2 (December 3) – Finish Chapter 12
- Week 3 (December 10) – Finished
Follow the FOLD and Jael on Instagram for reading updates and thought-provoking discussion questions.
Won’t have time to finish reading the book? Check out the docuseries on CBC Gem based off of Tanya’s book.
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