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Talaga says four of the cases have been reopened but racism, indifference and more Indigenous deaths have First Nations youth there on edge. Sadly, things are progressing but not at all fast enough, said Talaga, who co-directed the film with Michelle Derosier. Our children are still dying in the water, our people are still dying on the streets. It is something that we are still living with.
The film debuts online Thursday at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. Spirit to Soar centres on the deaths of Jethro Anderson, Reggie Bushie, Robyn Harper, Kyle Morrisseau, Paul Panacheese, Curran Strang and Jordan Wabasse.
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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.