Tanya Talaga (b. 1970) is a Canadian journalist and author of Anishinaabe and Polish descent. She worked as a journalist at the ''Toronto Star'' for over twenty years, covering health, education, local issues, and investigations. She is also the owner of the media company [https://makwacreative.ca/ Makwa Creative]. She is now a regular columnist with the Globe and Mail. Her 2017 book ''Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City'' was met with acclaim, winning the 2018 RBC Taylor Prize for non-fiction and the 2017 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. in 2024 she published ''The Knowning'' a retelling of Canadian History and residential schools through an Indigenous lens, beginning with the life of her great-great grandmother Annie Carpenter. Talaga is the first woman of Anishinaabe descent to be named a CBC Massey Lecturer. She holds honorary doctorates from Lakehead University and from Ryerson University.
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