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UBC Connects presents Tanya Talaga - Covering the Apocalypse: What it is like being an Indigenous journalist in Canada.
Indigenous journalists have always covered stories that are personal. You can’t be part of an Indigenous family and not be touched by the residential school experience, the Sixties Scoop, climate change, addiction or incarceration. We write from a perspective of deep knowledge and we often find ourselves as unwitting teachers, activists and truth tellers. What does our perspective mean to news organizations and to readers? What is our responsibility and what is yours?
Tanya Talaga is Ojibwe with roots in Fort William First Nation in Ontario. She worked as a journalist at the Toronto Star for more than 20 years, and has been nominated five times for the Michener Award in public service journalism. Talaga holds an honorary Doctor of Letters from Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, and shares her expertise on the boards of PEN Canada and The Narwal. She is the president and CEO of Makwa Creative, a production company focussed on Indigenous storytelling.
Talaga is the acclaimed author of Seven Fallen Feathers, which was the winner of the RBC Taylor Prize, the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, and First Nation Communities Read: Young Adult/Adult. The book was also a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Nonfiction Prize and the BC National Award for Nonfiction, and it was CBC’s Nonfiction Book of the Year, a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book, and a national bestseller.
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