num_pages: 320
description: In this vital and incisive work bestselling and award-winning author Tanya Talaga explores the alarming rise of youth suicide in Indigenous communities in Canada and beyond. From Northern Ontario to Nunavut Norway Brazil Australia and the United States the Indigenous experience in colonized nations is startlingly similar and deeply disturbing. It is an experience marked by the violent separation of Peoples from the land the separation of families and the separation of individuals from traditional ways of life  all of which has culminated in a spiritual separation that has had an enduring impact on generations of Indigenous children. As a result of this colonial legacy too many communities today lack access to the basic determinants of health  income employment education a safe environment health services  leading to a mental health and youth suicide crisis on a global scale. But Talaga reminds us First Peoples also share a history of resistance resilience and civil rights activism from the Occupation of Alcatraz led by the Indians of All Tribes to the Northern Ontario Stirland Lake Quiet Riot to the Standing Rock protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline which united Indigenous Nations from across Turtle Island in solidarity.Based on her Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy series All Our Relations is a powerful call for action justice and a better more equitable world for all Indigenous Peoples.
language: English
title: All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward
publisher: House of Anansi Press