Tanya Talaga doc 'Spirit to Soar' details ongoing colonial oppression in Canada
by Victoria Ahearn, The Canadian Press
Posted Apr 28, 2021 5:08 pm EDT
Last Updated Apr 28, 2021 at 5:14 pm EDT
TORONTO — Four years after her acclaimed book “Seven Fallen Feathers” explored the deaths of Indigenous teens in Thunder Bay, Ont., journalist Tanya Talaga has returned to shine a new light on the ongoing colonial oppression there and across Canada.
In the new documentary “Spirit to Soar,” the award-winning Anishinaabe author follows up on a 2015-’16 inquest into the deaths of seven First Nations high school students — five of whom were found dead in rivers — in the northwestern Ontario city from 2000 to 2011.