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Truth Telling
- Seven Conversations About Indigenous Life in Canada
- Narrated by: Megan Tooley
- Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
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Publisher's Summary
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
FINALIST for the Writers’ Trust Balsillie Prize for Public Policy
A bold, provocative collection of essays exploring the historical and contemporary Indigenous experience in Canada.
With authority and insight, Truth Telling examines a wide range of Indigenous issues framed by Michelle Good’s personal experience and knowledge.
From racism, broken treaties, and cultural pillaging, to the value of Indigenous lives and the importance of Indigenous literature, this collection reveals facts about Indigenous life in Canada that are both devastating and enlightening. Truth Telling also demonstrates the myths underlying Canadian history and the human cost of colonialism, showing how it continues to underpin modern social institutions in Canada.
Passionate and uncompromising, Michelle Good affirms that meaningful and substantive reconciliation hinges on recognition of Indigenous self-determination, the return of lands, and a just redistribution of the wealth that has been taken from those lands without regard for Indigenous peoples.
Truth Telling is essential listening for those looking to acknowledge the past and understand the way forward.
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- Deborah E Harcus
- 2023-06-15
Excellent information
All settlers need to read or listen to this book. Michelle did a great job explaining what it is that indigenous people want and issues they continue to face today.
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