Tanya Talaga

Tanya Talaga is an award-winning journalist, author and filmmaker of Anishinaabe and Polish descent. She is a proud member of Fort William First Nation, in the Robinson-Superior Treaty territory and her maternal family has ties to Treaty 9. Her father was Polish-Canadian.

For more than 20 years, Talaga was a journalist at the Toronto Star and is now a regular columnist at the Globe and Mail. She is the author of three national bestsellers; Seven Fallen Feather, All Our Relations and The Knowing; a seminal unravelling of the centuries-long oppression of Indigenous People that continues to reverberate in these communities today. It is the focus of a four-part, CBC documentary series that was awarded the 2025 Canadian Screen Award for Best Writing-Documentary and Playback’s Directors of the Year in 2024 for co-direction.

Talaga is the founder of Makwa Creative, a production company formed to elevate Indigenous voices and stories through documentary films, including the Canadian Screen Award nominated War For The Woods, and podcasts such as Auntie Up!