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English language

Published Sept. 9, 2023 by HarperCollins Publishers.

ISBN:: 978-1-4434-6781-0

A bold, provocative examination of Canadian Indigenous issues from advocate, activist and award-winning novelist Michelle Good

Truth Telling is a collection of essays about the contemporary Indigenous experience in Canada. From resistance and reconciliation to the resurgence and reclamation of Indigenous power, Michelle Good explores the issues through a series of personal essays.

The collection includes an expansion and update of her highly popular Globe and Mail article about “pretendians," as well as “A History of Violence," an essay that appeared in a book about missing and murdered women. Other pieces deal with topics such as discrimination against Indigenous children; what is meant by meaningful reconciliation; and the importance of the Indigenous literary renaissance of the 1970s.

With authority, intelligence and insight, Michelle Good delves into the human cost of colonialism, showing how it continues to underpin social institutions in Canada and prevents meaningful and substantive reconciliation.

A bold, provocative examination of Canadian Indigenous issues from advocate, activist and award-winning novelist Michelle Good

Truth Telling is a collection of essays about the contemporary Indigenous experience in Canada. From resistance and reconciliation to the resurgence and reclamation of Indigenous power, Michelle Good explores the issues through a series of personal essays.

The collection includes an expansion and update of her highly popular Globe and Mail article about “pretendians," as well as “A History of Violence," an essay that appeared in a book about missing and murdered women. Other pieces deal with topics such as discrimination against Indigenous children; what is meant by meaningful reconciliation; and the importance of the Indigenous literary renaissance of the 1970s.

With authority, intelligence and insight, Michelle Good delves into the human cost of colonialism, showing how it continues to underpin social institutions in Canada and prevents meaningful and substantive reconciliation.

3 editions

Garnigal reviewed Truth Telling by Michelle Good

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5 stars

This is a highly accessible discussion about the historical underpinnings and modern effects of colonialism and Canada’s genocidal policies towards the Indigenous people of North America.

Clear and concise, this set of essays not only conveys the reality of ongoing government policy, but starkly relates the impact on the people’s the policy directly attacked.

This should be required reading for any Canadian literature or government course from high school through college in an attempt to counter act the myth of Canada’s founding currently taught to schoolchildren.

Martin reviewed Truth Telling by Michelle Good

Strongly argued

5 stars

Michelle Good's collection of seven essays, each on a distinct theme in the broad topic of reconciliation, presents a good picture of the current status of the indigenous struggle for recognition and status, and convincing rationale for a change in attitude and approach by the colonial institutions and settler community. A worthwhile read.