Bone Black
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The “Young Dogs” in the text was first referenced in the 1913 publication of The Company of Adventurers by Isaac Cowie.
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Sending special recognition to my three beautiful children: Jackson, Nahanni and Daniel.
Thank you to the following people for help with Cree translation and expertise on pottery techniques, suggestions and encouragement: Neal McLeod, Karlie King, Barbara Goretzky, Janice Lentowicz, Kari Lentowicz, Carol Draper, Lori Zak, Alice Marvin, Neil Marvin, Kathleen Coleclough, Rae Pelletier, Linda Ford, Jeannie Leblond, Andino Suns, Andres Davalos, Kristin Teetaert, Larry Hall, Tracey George-Hesse, Trevor Herriot, Lorna Standing Ready, Linda Lyster, Alex Bodnarchuk, Michelle Lenuik, Terri Boldt (otherwise affectionately known as “Trouble”—lol), Shawna Lemay, Krista Schultz, Karen Wheeler, and of course to my publisher Silas White and my editor Amber McMillan. I also wish to send gratitude to arts organizations that allow for artists to create, such as the Canada Council for the Arts, the Saskatchewan Arts Board, Saskatchewan Cultural Exchange (thanks to John Kennedy and his lovely wife Debra Bell), the Saskatchewan Foundation for the Arts, the Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild, Last Mountain Lake Cultural Centre, SaskCulture and Creative Saskatchewan.
About the Author
Carol Rose GoldenEagle (previously Carol Daniels) is a Saskatchewan author of the novel Bearskin Diary, chosen as the Aboriginal Literature Title for 2017 and shortlisted for three Saskatchewan Book Awards in 2016. Her French-language translation of the same novel, Peau D’ours, won the 2019 Saskatchewan Book Award, Prix du livre français. Her first book of poetry, Hiraeth, was shortlisted for a Saskatchewan Book Award in 2019. GoldenEagle is an Aboriginal artist, multi-disciplined in the areas of writing, storytelling, singing, drumming and visual art.