{"id":380917,"date":"2021-12-14T17:27:55","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T14:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/tanya-talaga-is-telling-the-stories-canada-needs-to-hear\/"},"modified":"2021-12-14T17:27:55","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T14:27:55","slug":"tanya-talaga-is-telling-the-stories-canada-needs-to-hear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/tanya-talaga-is-telling-the-stories-canada-needs-to-hear\/","title":{"rendered":"#Tanya Talaga is telling the stories Canada needs to hear"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3f68302d5af\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3f68302d5af\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/tanya-talaga-is-telling-the-stories-canada-needs-to-hear\/#Accompanying_Tanya_Talaga\" >Accompanying Tanya Talaga<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Tanya Talaga is telling the stories Canada needs to hear<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>For Anishinaabe journalist Tanya Talaga, 2022 will be spent working on an urgent, timely book that confronts a question many Canadians have been asking themselves since May: how could we have ignored the unmarked graves at residential schools across the country that contain the bodies of thousands of Indigenous children?<\/p>\n<p>Every Indigenous family, including mine, knew about the graves. My grandmother attended St. Michael\u2019s Residential School in Duck Lake, Sask. In 1910, an Indian agent reported that half the children who had been sent to St. Michael\u2019s had died there; in 1996, it was one of the last residential schools in Canada to close its doors. Only five years old when she arrived at the school, my grandmother tended to her own sister\u2019s grave. She was lucky in one respect: unlike so many others, she knew where her kin was buried.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>MORE:\u00a0Murray Sinclair on reconciliation, anger, unmarked graves\u2014and a headline for this story\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As the Indigenous issues columnist at the <em>Toronto Star<\/em> and <em>Globe and Mail<\/em> and author of the bestselling books <em>Seven Fallen Feathers <\/em>and <em>All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward<\/em>, Talaga has led countless Canadians to reckon with this country\u2019s dark and violent history.<\/p>\n<p>Now she is embarking on a three-book deal with HarperCollins Canada, the first of which is set to be published in 2023 and will focus on the legacy of Canada\u2019s residential schools, through the stories of intergenerational survivors. Announcing the deal\u2014as unique for its size as for its ambition\u2014HarperCollins senior vice-president and executive publisher Iris Tupholme described Talaga as \u201ca household name [who] can elevate these much-needed conversations to a national audience. We see these books as ones of vital importance to forging new relationships in this fractured nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Talaga\u2019s ability to transform the way so many Canadians understand this country is part of her power as a storyteller. But for Indigenous audiences, it is also groundbreaking to see ourselves, our stories, reflected in mainstream <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>. Talaga doesn\u2019t speak about Indigenous people; she speaks with us. \u201cI always write with community,\u201d she tells me by phone in early October. \u201cIt\u2019s not just my voice. It\u2019s many other voices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p>Talaga, now 51, wanted to be a writer from a young age. \u201cI was a bookish kid who didn\u2019t have many friends, so words were my friends,\u201d she says. She grew up in Toronto but spent summers with her mother\u2019s family in Raith, a rural Indigenous community northwest of Thunder Bay, Ont. Her journalism career began at the University of Toronto, where she was the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> editor for the student-run paper the<em> Varsity <\/em>under editor-in-chief Naomi Klein.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>MORE:\u00a0Jody Wilson-Raybould on Ottawa\u2019s power problem\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In 1995, she joined the<em> Toronto Star<\/em> as an intern, starting off as a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> assignment reporter. She was eager to prove herself, as the only intern in her cohort who hadn\u2019t gone to journalism school and the only Indigenous person in the newsroom. \u201cI was doing crime, mayhem, everything,\u201d she says. Later, she covered a variety of beats\u2014local politics, education, health care\u2014but it wasn\u2019t until she moved to the Queen\u2019s Park bureau in 2009 that she was able to start writing about Indigenous people. \u201cI had a lot more freedom to bring forward stories that I wanted to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2011, Talaga <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a>led to Thunder Bay ahead of the federal election to write about low voter turnout among Indigenous people. There, she met Stan Beardy, then grand chief of the Nishnawbe Aski Nation, who wanted to talk about the dis<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>earance of 15-year-old Jordan Wabasse instead.<\/p>\n<div class=\"longform-fwimg-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-sizes=\"auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.macleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/TANYA-TALAGE-CYCA-NOV11-02.jpg\" alt=\"Talaga with her mother, who lost three brothers in the Sixties Scoop (Photograph by Nadya Kwandibens)\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Talaga with her mother, who lost three brothers in the Sixties Scoop (Photograph by Nadya Kwandibens)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>.<br \/>\nLike six others before him\u2014Jethro Anderson, Curran Strang, Paul Panacheese, Robyn Harper, Reggie Bushie and Kyle Morrisseau\u2014Wabasse died while attending high school in the city, a basic right unavailable to him in his community of Webequie First Nation, more than 500 km from Thunder Bay. <em>Seven Fallen Feathers<\/em>, which captured the shocking indifference of police, politicians and media to the deaths of Indigenous children and the anguish of their families, became a critically acclaimed national bestseller upon its release in 2017, winning the 2018 RBC Taylor Prize. The jury wrote, \u201cIt is impossible to read this book and come away unchanged.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Its impact came not only from Talaga\u2019s skill as a reporter, but also from her lived experience. She is Polish-Canadian on her father\u2019s side and Anishinaabe through her mother, whose family comes from the Fort William First Nation, just outside of Thunder Bay. Her great-grandmother \u201cwould not allow Anishinaabemowin to be spoken in her home, because at residential school she had been taught that everything Indian was dirty,\u201d Talaga wrote in <em>All Our Relations<\/em>. The trauma of the schools was passed down through the generations of Talaga\u2019s family. Her mother had three brothers who were taken in the Sixties Scoop. In her 20s, Talaga learned she had a sister, Donna, born when her mother was a teenager and given up for adoption. In writing <em>Seven Fallen Feathers<\/em>, she has said, \u201cI learned more about myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>MORE:\u00a0The search for graves\u2014and truth\u2014at a Nova Scotia residential school\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p>Talaga\u2019s smooth, resonant voice becomes filled with emotion when we begin speaking about our missing children. \u201cTwo hundred and fifteen graves, bodies of little children,\u201d she says about the discovery at the former Kamloops Residential School in British Columbia. \u201cEven someone who has no real clue about Indigenous issues can wrap their heads around the wrongness of it.\u201d In recent months, Talaga has made several visits to Tk\u2019eml\u00faps te Secwe\u2019pemc First Nation, speaking with community members and conducting research for her book.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<div style=\"background-color: #9db0d0; padding: 20px;\">\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Accompanying_Tanya_Talaga\"><\/span>Accompanying Tanya Talaga<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>(Click through this gallery)<\/p>\n<div id=\"longform-carousel-container\" class=\"carousel slide\" data-interval=\"false\" data-ride=\"carousel\">\n<div class=\"carousel-inner\">\n<div class=\"carousel-item active\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-sizes=\"auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.macleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/TALAGA_SIDEBAR_EDIT.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"d-block w-100\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Talaga turned to Thomas King\u2019s 2003 Massey Lectures, The Truth About Stories, while writing Seven Fallen Feathers. She also names authors Tomson Highway and Lee Maracle as major influences.(Courtesy of Penguin Random House Canada)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"carousel-item\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-sizes=\"auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.macleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/TANYA-TALAGA-ARTISTS-CYCA-NOV19-02-766x431.jpg\" alt=\"Anishinaabe singer-songwriter Ansley Simpson opened Talaga\u2019s Massey Lecture in Toronto and did the music for Mashkawi-Manidoo Bimaadiziwin (Spirit to Soar), the first documentary from Talaga\u2019s production company, Makwa Creative. (Courtesy of Jeff Bierk)\" class=\"d-block w-100\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anishinaabe singer-songwriter Ansley Simpson opened Talaga\u2019s Massey Lecture in Toronto and did the music for Mashkawi-Manidoo Bimaadiziwin (Spirit to Soar), the first documentary from Talaga\u2019s production company, Makwa Creative. (Courtesy of Jeff Bierk)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"carousel-item\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-sizes=\"auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.macleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/TANYA-TALAGA-ARTISTS-CYCA-NOV19-01-766x431.jpg\" alt=\"Anishinaabe artist Ray Fox, based in northern Ontario, is the illustrator of Spirit to Soar. (Courtesy of Tanya Talaga)\" class=\"d-block w-100\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anishinaabe artist Ray Fox, based in northern Ontario, is the illustrator of Spirit to Soar. (Courtesy of Tanya Talaga)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"carousel-control-prev\" role=\"button\" data-target=\"#longform-carousel-container\" data-slide=\"prev\"><span class=\"carousel-control-prev-icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><span class=\"sr-only\">Previous<\/span><\/a><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"carousel-control-next\" role=\"button\" data-target=\"#longform-carousel-container\" data-slide=\"next\"><span class=\"carousel-control-next-icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><span class=\"sr-only\">Next<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr\/>\n<p>I ask if she feels there has been a significant shift in how Canadians understand Indigenous issues since she began writing about them.<\/p>\n<p>She pauses. \u201cYes and no,\u201d she says. \u201cAt least more people are interested now. More people are asking questions, more people want to know the truth. But it was just two years ago that people were denying there was a genocide happening in this country. I work for a newspaper that had a headline on the editorial page, \u201cNo, it\u2019s not genocide,\u201d just after I wrote two books on genocide. After all the reporting and journalism that\u2019s been done, that denial hurts.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>MORE:\u00a0I ran away from the Kamloops residential school. This is where I hid.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAnd truthfully,\u201d she continues, her voice rising, \u201chow many times do we have to tell people this is what happened before they start to listen to us and believe us? Is it now, when we\u2019re finding the mass graves of all of our children at all of these different schools? And what about the Indian hospitals, what about the sanitariums? There are lots of places where our people are buried in unmarked graves. Is that what Canada was waiting to hear?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese things hurt our souls,\u201d Talaga says. \u201cTelling these stories, it\u2019s heavy on you. I\u2019m sure you feel that too, as an Indigenous journalist. It\u2019s personal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I tell her I feel jaded about the possibility of substantial change. It feels like we\u2019ve been here before, many times, and Indigenous people have little to show for it. \u201cI\u2019m reluctant to call this a turning point,\u201d I admit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel the same reluctance as you,\u201d she says. \u201cBut you know, I\u2019m always hopeful. I think you\u2019ll find our people are always hopeful, right? We\u2019re always extending an olive branch, we\u2019re always willing to teach others. Because we have no choice. We all have to live together here.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>READ:\u00a0A children\u2019s book about traditional\u00a0drumming \u2018feels like coming full circle\u2019 for this Indigenous author\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p>Talaga spent a year and three months writing <em>Seven Fallen Feathers<\/em>, while also working her full-time job as a reporter for the <em>Star<\/em><em>.<\/em> By the time she finished the book, she was exhausted. Her colleagues suggested she apply for the Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy, awarded annually to a journalist exploring a single topic.<\/p>\n<p>She was selected as the 2017-18 fellow, and chose to focus on Indigenous youth suicide\u2014a topic she\u2019d been thinking about since 2009. Then she got a call inviting her to give the 2018 Massey Lectures, becoming the first Atkinson fellow to be named the Massey lecturer. The resulting book, <em>All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward<\/em>, drew clear and compelling connections between the youth suicide epidemic and the disruptive colonial policies that separated Indigenous peoples from their lands, cultural traditions and families. Like <em>Seven Fallen Feathers<\/em>, it became a national bestseller.<\/p>\n<p>Talaga left the <em>Star <\/em>and struck out on her own, reflecting on advice that former senator Murray Sinclair had shared with her. \u201cHe\u2019s often said to me, \u2018We know what to do. We need to start doing things for ourselves, in our own way.\u2019 And when I look at the media, I think that\u2019s true.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>MORE:\u00a0Indigenous voices are changing the film industry. \u2018Canada needs to sit, listen and watch.\u2019\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But when the<em> Globe and Mail <\/em>offered her a column, her own community of Indigenous people urged her to accept. \u201cThey said, \u2018Who is going to tell our stories now? You think they\u2019re going to fill your spot?\u2019\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>Indigenous people often say we walk in two worlds, but Talaga embodies that more literally than most. In 2018, she became a columnist at the<em> Globe <\/em>and also launched Makwa Creative, which produces podcasts, TV shows and documentaries. She\u2019s built a small team of Indigenous collaborators, including former CBC Radio journalist Jolene Banning, whose family also comes from Fort William First Nation. \u201cI feel like I\u2019ve known her forever, because she was the reporter putting our issues into national media,\u201d says Banning.<\/p>\n<p>The first documentary from Makwa Creative, <em>Mashkawi-Manidoo Bimaadiziwin (Spirit to Soar)<\/em><em>, <\/em>premiered at Hot Docs in April 2021 and follows Talaga back to Thunder Bay in the wake of a 2016 inquest into the seven deaths. Makwa is developing several projects that celebrate the richness and diversity of Indigenous perspectives. One is <em>Auntie Up!<\/em>, a podcast hosted by Banning and Kim Wheeler that launched Nov. 1. Talaga describes it as an Indigenous spin on <em>The View<\/em>, the long-running ABC show featuring an intergenerational panel of female hosts. \u201cIt\u2019s like a talk show, but what <em>we <\/em>want to talk about,\u201d she says. \u201cThat could be anything from love and relationships to beading to who has the best recipe for moose stew to what hunting was like last weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>MORE:\u00a0How Indigenous\u00a0institutes are reclaiming education\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Banning and Talaga hope their projects help Canadians understand Indigenous perspectives more deeply, but they write with their own communities in mind. \u201cI hope it at least seeds our youth with the knowledge that they are beautiful, they are resilient, and that the negative and harmful words said about them are all lies,\u201d says Banning. \u201cAnd that they are worth it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p>The book project Talaga is about to embark on has been on her mind for several years. \u201cIn my very first meeting with [House of Anansi editor] Janie Yoon, I discussed two book ideas with her,\u201d she says. \u201cI talked to her about the students who had died in Thunder Bay, but I also pitched a book about all the missing children at residential schools across Canada. That was actually the first [one] I wanted to write.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yoon suggested beginning instead with the story of the seven students. \u201cShe felt that would really reach people and open up that groundwork, and would be more urgent,\u201d Talaga recalls. \u201cAnd I think she was right. There is a time and a place for everything. And now things have come full circle, and I\u2019m writing that first book.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>MORE: Canada\u2019s museums are slowly starting to return Indigenous artifacts\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Talaga describes the project as \u201csacred work.\u201d To prepare, she is drawing on her community for strength and support. \u201cIt is draining,\u201d she says, \u201cwhich is why it\u2019s so important to do things in a good way.\u201d In September, she spent two days in ceremony with Elders at the Whitefish River First Nation, near Sudbury, Ont., and in early November she travelled to Thunder Bay for an Elders council organized by Elder Sam Achneepineskum of Marten Falls First Nation, with whom she is very close. \u201cBeing in Thunder Bay, being in community, it\u2019s very helpful for me as I write,\u201d she says. \u201cI couldn\u2019t do this work if I didn\u2019t have that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Talaga, who is warm and thoughtful in conversation, is guarded about the details of the book. She shares that its scope will encompass the 139 federally funded residential schools, as well as the 1,300 schools run by provinces and religious orders where Indigenous children were sent in Canada. She is also looking to the U.S., where the Indian boarding school system served as a model for Canada\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>I ask her if the three books are connected, and she pauses to consider the question. \u201cAll of my books are connected,\u201d she says. \u201cAnd they all begin in the same place: with me, in the North.\u201d Talaga is not an observer of these stories; she\u2019s a participant, another intergenerational survivor. Each book is a piece of the history of our loss and survival, what it means to be Indigenous. And Talaga wants to tell as much of that story as she can. \u201cI\u2019m a storyteller,\u201d she says. \u201cAnd I have many books in me.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>READ:\u00a0The Auntie who helps Indigenous students adjust to college life\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p>On a rainy October morning a few weeks after our phone conversation, I attend an event at the Vancouver Writers Festival where Talaga interviews Jesse Wente about his 2021 memoir <em>Unreconciled<\/em>. Talaga receives a warm reception from the theatre\u2014half-filled to COVID-19 capacity\u2014and manages to hold a lively conversation with Wente, who appears by Zoom on a TV next to her chair.<\/p>\n<p>The event ends with an audience Q&amp;A, and the last question comes from an older man, sitting in the first row, who bluntly asks Wente for his thoughts on \u201calcoholism in your communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The room, which was a buzzing and joyful space only moments before, turns cold. I am reminded that some people still believe Indigenous people are to blame for their suffering. Talaga and Wente handle the question calmly and professionally, reframing it to focus on addictions that affect all communities and pointing out the links between trauma and addiction. But Wente says this: \u201cIn recent times, around residential schools, we say, \u2018Every child matters.\u2019 That includes the children who are on the street, who are grown up now. They were once children. And they matter as adults.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In <em>Seven Fallen Feathers <\/em>and <em>All Our Relations<\/em>, Talaga illuminated an uncomfortable truth: the past is never really the past. By drawing connections between residential schools and youth suicide and between chronic underfunding of Indigenous services and the deaths of students in Thunder Bay, she demonstrated that the policies designed long ago to eradicate Indigenous peoples and cultures continue to shape their lives today.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>READ:\u00a0What I told my child about the Kamloops\u00a0graves to honour\u00a0the 215<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThere are still so many truths to be told in this country,\u201d Talaga tells me. \u201cAnd we have to have the will of the people all across Canada to want to make things better for all of our children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I imagine the future that Talaga is trying to build, one where Indigenous people can tell their own stories, in their own ways. Where their history is known and understood, not ignored or denied. What it would have been like to learn Cree from my grandmother, who never spoke it in front of me. Indigenous people have so much sorrow in common. I want my daughter\u2019s generation, and every one that follows, to share their joy instead. The road to that future must be travelled story by story, truth by truth. Each one is an opportunity for Canadians to recognize the beauty and value of Indigenous survival, and to choose to walk beside us.<\/p>\n<p>As Talaga said, our people are always willing to teach others and extend an olive branch. What other choice do we have?<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><em>This article appears in print in the January 2022 issue of<\/em> Maclean\u2019s <em>magazine with the headline, \u201cWalking in two worlds.\u201d Subscribe to the monthly print magazine <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/secure.macleans.ca\/loc\/MME\/head_subscribe\">here<\/a>.<\/em><br \/>\n<span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>\n                            <\/div>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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