Carol Rose GoldenEagle

In 2019 the CBC published an op-ed GoldenEagle wrote about the effect of names on the feelings of identity for First Nations people, like herself. GoldenEagle had recently gone through a traditional naming ceremony, taking the name Osawa Mikisew Iskwew, and she described what that meant, for her.

GoldenEagle published a volume of poetry, entitled Hiraeth, in 2019. It was shortlisted for a Saskatchewan Book Award.

In 2016 GoldenEagle published an op-ed in Quill & Quire about the murder and disappearance of Native women, and the impact it had on her. She wrote first becoming aware that First Nations women were being targeted, and their murders and disappearances were not being properly investigated, after learning about the kidnapping, rape and murder of Helen Betty Osborne, from The Pas, Manitoba, whose brutal murder went practically uninvestigated for decades. She wrote about her responsibility to speak up, to protect young women, like her daughter.

The protagonist of her first novel, Bearskin Diary, published in 2015, like GoldenEagle is a First Nations journalist trying to recover her Native roots.

Her second novel, Bone Black, features a First Nations hero who seeks revenge against individuals who have murdered First Nations women, after her sister is murdered. According to the Regina Leader-Post GoldenEagle was so overcome by emotion when she heard about the 2014 murder of teenage First Nations woman Tina Fontaine, on her car's radio, that she had to pull over. A comment from another First Nations parent, about how the loss of their child triggered a desire for personal vengeance, was a trigger for the novel.

She joined CBC Newsworld, the CBC's newly launched all news cable channel, in 1989. While there, when she hosted This Country she was the first Indigenous woman to anchor a national broadcast. She also spent 8 years as the anchor at CBC North, in Yellowknife.

Carol Rose GoldenEagle was born, in 1963, in a religious hospital, to a First Nations woman who was unmarried, so Hospital authorities stripped her from her mother. Her adoption, without the agreement of her mother, was part of a now discredited program known as the Sixties Scoop. The purpose of the program was to break Native culture by adopting children into white families. Hospital authorities intervened to take GoldenEagle from her mother even though she was a nurse. GoldenEagle never met her mother, only being able to trace her roots as an adult, and learning her mother had died in a car accident.