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Stan Beardy is the former grand chief of the Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN). Beardy’s son, Daniel, died in 2004 after being beaten severely at a house party while attending Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Beardy was the first person to encourage Tanya Talaga to write about the titular “seven fallen feathers”—seven Indigenous students who’d died while attending boarding school in Thunder Bay between 2000 and 2011.
Stan Beardy Quotes in Seven Fallen Feathers
The Seven Fallen Feathers quotes below are all either spoken by Stan Beardy or refer to Stan Beardy. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 1: Notes from a Blind Man Quotes
By the time of the seventh fire, young people would rise up and begin to follow the trails of the past, seeking help from the Elders, but many of the Elders would have fallen asleep or be otherwise unable to help. The young would have to find their own way, and if they were successful there would be a rebirth of the Anishinaabe nation. But if they were to fail, all would fail.
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When Stan talked about losing his son, the pain of the lost seven was closely tied to him. The loss of Daniel and the loss of the seven represented the loss of hope, the failure of one generation to take care of the next.
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Stan Beardy Character Timeline in Seven Fallen Feathers
The timeline below shows where the character Stan Beardy appears in Seven Fallen Feathers. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 1: Notes from a Blind Man
...office on a dreary day in April of 2011 to speak with NAN’s grand chief, Stan Beardy. The daughter of a half-European, half-Ojibwe mother and a Polish father, Talaga flies from...
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Talaga tries to talk to Beardy about Indigenous voting statistics, pointing out that Indigenous people have the power to influence the...
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Beardy tells Talaga that all of the students who have disappeared or died were from remote...
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Stan Beardy takes Talaga on a drive. As they drive, he tells her about his son,...
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Stan parks the car near a bridge crossing the Kam. From that spot, Talaga can see...
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