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BONE BLACK | Carol Rose GoldenEagle | MMIWG

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 UPDATE: Poet Laureate Carol Rose GoldenEagle coming to share her works in Humboldt GoldenEagle's novel a vengeful twist on Missing and Murdered issue Walking her dog around Regina Beach every day, Carol Rose GoldenEagle would mull over how to dispose of dead bodies. Ashley Martin  •  Regina Leader-Post Oct 03, 2019  •  GoldenEagle's new novel Bone Black is about a woman who takes justice into her own hands when her sister becomes one of the many Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.   Walking her dog around Regina Beach every day, Carol Rose GoldenEagle would mull over how to dispose of dead bodies. She thought about all the ice fishers who drive onto not-quite-frozen parts of Last Mountain Lake and nearly lose their vehicles. “If you went on the lake a little earlier than probably what’s safe, the lake would actually take care of the forensic evidence,” said GoldenEagle. “And so I walked around thinking about ...

Our Voice of Fire: A Memoir of a Warrior Rising

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  Journalist Brandi Morin tells her own difficult stories in debut memoir Brandi Morin opens her debut memoir, Our Voice of Fire: A Memoir of a Warrior Rising, with her visit, along with a New York Times reporter and photographer, to the home of Tina Fontaine’s great-aunt Thelma Favel for a piece on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG). Tina Fontaine was the 15-year-old Sagkeeng First Nations girl whose body was found in Winnipeg’s Red River in 2014, and her murder ignited the MMIWG movement. Sitting in the girl’s great-aunt’s home, Morin realized that she herself could have easily gone missing and been murdered. Morin, a French/Cree/Iroquois journalist from Treaty 6 territory in Alberta, has made a name for herself in journalism, with stories for Al Jazeera , National Geographic , Aboriginal People...

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