Tanya Tagaq

Oct 11, 2024 | splcenter.org | Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz |Tanya Tagaq |N. Scott Momaday |Louise Erdrich

Have you noticed that your shelves are lacking books about Indigenous people? In honor of Indigenous Peoples Day on Oct. 14, here are a few books to help you learn about Indigenous lives and culture. An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United StatesBy Roxanne Dunbar-OrtizRoxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s nonfiction book challenges the founding myth of the United States and powerfully reframes its history.

Oct 9, 2024 | eomega.org | Tanya Tagaq |Tyson Yunkaporta |Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz |Nicole Eustace

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall KimmererAs a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers.

Oct 9, 2024 | eomega.org | Tanya Tagaq |Tyson Yunkaporta |Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz |Nicole Eustace

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall KimmererAs a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers.

Jan 29, 2024 | quillandquire.com | Tanya Tagaq

Tanya Tagaq’s novel Split Tooth has been shortlisted for the 2023–24 Gordon Burn Prize. The U.K.-based Gordon Burn Prize recognizes innovative and “forward-thinking” literature that pushes boundaries in content, style, or genre, and engages with current cultural and social concerns. Gordon Burn was a British author and journalist who was brought up in a working-class family.

Oct 31, 2023 | thestar.co.uk | Tanya Tagaq

The Sheffield Telegraph features below an exclusive extract from Split Tooth by internationally celebrated throat singer, avant-garde composer and bestselling author Tanya Tagaq. The novel delves into the life of an Inuk girl growing up in Nunavut, Canada, during the 1970s. She knows joy, and friendship, and parents’ love. She knows boredom, and listlessness, and bullying.