In The Knowing, Tanya Talaga reaches back four generations to piece together her family’s history and the story of how her great-great-grandmother Annie went missing.
The Anishinaabe author, journalist, and documentary filmmaker’s third book is a forensic investigation into the ruinous colonial ideology that caused Annie to be institutionalized for years—the same ideology that propped up residential schools across the country where thousands of Indigenous children ended up missing or dead. The Knowing—released this past August—cements Talaga’s reputation as a force in not only constructing colonial history rarely taught to Canadians in school but also for showing how that history reverberates today.
