Tanya Talaga learned about how Indigenous women were erased by discovering her own family’s history
Tanya Talaga learned about how Indigenous women were erased by discovering her own family’s history

Talaga’s family knew Annie Carpenter — a Cree woman originally from the James Bay Coast — had ended up in Toronto, though they didn’t know how, or where she was buried. What Talaga uncovered taught her about her own history, and how Indigenous women were erased in Canada.