Indigenous Toronto Stories that Carry This Place 2003 and Hard Truths in a

and Hard Truths in a Northern City recounts with clarity and honesty the truths surrounding the lives of seven Indigenous teenagers who lost their lives while attending high school in Thunder Bay

The boy says simply

who was embedded in the community from the beginning of the 2013 struggle

Methods of harvesting and cooking wild rice

belong to the American land

Indigenous Toronto Stories that Carry This Place 2003 and Hard Truths in aRich and diverse narratives of Indigenous Toronto, past and present Beneath many major North American cities rests a deep foundation of Indigenous history that has been colonized, paved over, and, too often, silenced. Few of its current inhabitants know that Toronto has seen twelve thousand years of uninterrupted Indigenous presence and nationhood in this region, along with a vibrant culture and history that thrives to this day. With contributions by