{"product_id":"the-knowing-how-the-oppression-of-indigenous-peoples-continues-to-echo-today-9781335015389","title":"The Knowing: How the Oppression of Indigenous Peoples Continues to Echo Today","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e***Winner of the Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book!***\u003cbr\u003e***Shortlisted for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize!***\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe Knowing\u003c\/em\u003e is everything we've come to expect from a Tanya Talaga book - meticulous research, impassioned advocacy, searing prose.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e--\u003cstrong\u003eDuncan McCue, author of \u003cem\u003eDecolonizing Journalism: A Guide to Reporting in Indigenous Communities\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom award-winning and bestselling Anishinaabe author Tanya Talaga comes a riveting exploration of the dark history of\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eresidential schools, \"Indian hospitals\" and asylums, \u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003efor readers of \u003cem\u003eKillers of the Flower Moon\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Rediscovery of America\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor generations, Indigenous People have known that their family members disappeared, many of them after being consigned to 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Knowing \u003c\/em\u003eis the unfolding of history unlike anything we have ever read before. Award-winning and bestselling Anishinaabe author Tanya Talaga retells the history of her 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeeply personal and meticulously researched, \u003cem\u003eThe Knowing\u003c\/em\u003e is a seminal unravelling of the centuries-long oppression of Indigenous People that continues to reverberate in these communities today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tanya Talaga\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Hanover Square Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/15\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 480\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.10w x 1.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781335015389\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOriginal Edition\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Hanover Square Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44383844237449,"sku":"9781335015389","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_66257bb7-8abf-4907-ad46-0d272628592b.jpg?v=1752013110","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/the-knowing-how-the-oppression-of-indigenous-peoples-continues-to-echo-today-9781335015389","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}