Dalio Children's

Cultural genocide, aggressive assimilation, inhumane treatment, lifelong trauma. These are the central themes of the social novel DALIOVÉ DETI (DALIA'S CHILDREN). The widower Matthew Scott, an old Cree man, lives in a white neighbourhood, which he prefers to avoid. He has long since lost touch with his adult children and, in his bitterness, is increasingly losing his joy for life. A young white man moves into his neighbourhood, and Matt's grey days are suddenly turned upside down. Daniel Tait is fleeing his past as a drug dealer and seeks refuge in his grandmother's abandoned house. When the shadow of suspicion for the murder of an old medicine man falls on him, it seems the carousel of complications is starting all over again. What's more, his neighbour asks him for an unusual favour. Tantoo Hartnerová is a former ballerina. She lives with her widowed daughter and grandson. One day, a family friend asks her to speak about her experiences at a residential school at the National Indian Assembly. Tantoo refuses. Shortly after, an unexpected visitor knocks on her door. Who are the main protagonists of the story really, and what is their past? What is the real truth about the re-education of indigenous people in church schools, and how will contemporary society accept it? Drawing on historical facts and through the testimonies of real victims, the author captivatingly portrays the crimes of the assimilation process of Indigenous people in Canada in the 1940s.