- 256 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About This Book
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
FINALIST for the Writers' Trust Balsillie Prize for Public Policy
FINALIST for the Indigenous Voices Award
FINALIST for the High Plains Book Award
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 reading for those looking to acknowledge the past and understand the way forward.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Sit with Me, by This Dialogue Fire (Introduction)
- Residential Schools
- Lucy and the Football
- Racism, Carefully Sown
- $13.69
- The Rise and Resistance of Indigenous Literature
- Cultural Pillagers
- Land Back
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- A Note on the Book Art
- About the Author
- Also by Michelle Good
- Copyright
- About the Publisher