As an author and speaker, Rosanne brings forward the messages of her ancestors through her life experiences.
She honors the legacy of her great-great-grandmother Marie Dion by writing under her name. Marie hid her Native identity to protect her family at a time when Native children were being taken away and put into residential schools.
When she unexpectedly came upon a Native sacred object, exposed and desecrated at a gun show near her home in Massachusetts, Marie flew into a rage at its seller. (Sacred objects cannot be sold, let alone unwrapped and put on display). Little did she know how this event would change the trajectory of her life.