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- 1 2 3 4 5 Carol Rose GoldenEagle (2019-03-12). "I've had 4 surnames; now I feel I finally have one that matches my identity". CBC News . Retrieved 2020-02-13.
Osawa Mikisew Iskwew. That's my name. Translated from the Cree language, it means Golden Eagle Woman and carries with it a deep spiritual significance, a reverence for my Indigenous heritage and a connection to my ancestors.
- 1 2 3 4 Anna Dimoff (2016-08-15). "Author Carol Daniels blends fiction with Canada's Indigenous history in Bearskin Diary". CBC News . Retrieved 2020-02-13.
Daniels was one of thousands of babies fostered or adopted out to mostly white families across Canada, the United States and Europe under the program.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Chris Harbron (2018-06-07). "Carol Daniels reflects on Sixties Scoop, moves beyond it". Regina Leader Post . Retrieved 2020-02-13.
Daniels was born in the Grey Nuns Hospital (now the Pasqua) in Regina in 1963. She was immediately taken from her unwed Cree mother, who was a registered nurse from Sandy Bay, for adoption by a family in a farming town southeast of the city.
- ↑ Francois Biber (2016-10-19). "Regalia as a costume is insulting, Sask. Indigenous author says". CBC News . Retrieved 2020-02-13.
'All these comments were made about, "Oh look at the savage and the ugly little squaw" and everyone was laughing and pointing fingers. I was five and I was mortified,' she said. 'Being dressed up like a little Indian was a horrible, horrible thing … It planted the seed for this terrible source of shame for being brown which I carried all the way up until my 20s.'
- ↑ Carol Rose GoldenEagle (2016-01-06). "Personal essay: Carol Daniels on including a strong indigenous heroine in response to the pain of history". Quill & Quire . Retrieved 2020-02-13.
The thought that we live in a country where the disappearence[ sic ] of my precious daughter could be ignored – condoned, even – is almost more painful than I can bear. But that pain is nothing compared to that experienced by the families and friends of the more than 1,200 missing and murdered indigenous women in Canada. They live in a dreaded and forlorn place where it seems no one cares.
- ↑ "Being Fearless with Carol Rose Goldeneagle". Saskatchewan Culture . Retrieved 2020-02-13.
Her first book of poetry – entitled Hiraeth was shortlisted for a Saskatchewan Book Award in 2019.
- ↑ Ashley Martin (2019-10-03). "GoldenEagle's new novel a vengeful twist on Missing and Murdered issue". Regina Leader-Post . Retrieved 2020-02-13.
The protagonist Wren Strongeagle turns to serial killing after her twin sister Raven disappears. Having experienced and witnessed so much violence as an Indigenous woman, Wren hits her breaking point: In search of justice, she begins to prey on men who prey on Indigenous women. Wren is a deep character, and GoldenEagle's prose is vivid with a hint of poetry.
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