"The Knowing: Anishinaabe Author's Journey"
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•Tanya Talaga, author of The Knowing, says Canadian history needs to be rewritten
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Anishinaabe writer Tanya Talaga's great, great grandmother disappeared in the 1930s .
Annie Carpenter , a Cree (Ininiw) woman who was born in Fort Albany in 1871 , was Talaga ’s great grandmother.
The Knowing is a seminal unravelling of centuries of oppression.
Talaga is one of the 120-plus authors taking part in the Vancouver Writers Fest , which runs until October 27 .
Annie Carpenter's story represents all of our people that didn't come home from Indian Residential Schools, Indian hospitals, tuberculous sanitoriums, asylums.
She was five years old when the Indian Act came into force in Canada .
Carpenter is one of 33 First Nations people in unmarked graves.
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