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          Mishi Donovan.

        1. ONOWAY-Songbird Mishi Donovan, the Juno Award winner, has just released a new CD entitled, Journey Home.
        2. Singer, songwriter, and actress, Mishi Donovan is a Chippewa Cree whose ancestors are renegades from the Turtle Mountain Reservation in North Dakota.
        3. Jesse was born in Lubbock, Texas and when he was a young boy moved to Whittier, California.
        4. Donovan and Robertson show the continued trauma of the war in Francis's life during a thunderstorm when Francis is back home.

          5. Singer, songwriter, and actress, Mishi Donovan is a Chippewa Cree whose ancestors are renegades from the Turtle Mountain Reservation in North Dakota..

          Mishi Donovan: Artist used music to heal, but longed for her family connection

          By Dianne Meili
          Windspeaker.com Archives, 2013

          Juno award-winning singer, songwriter and actress Mishi Donovan searched for family all her life and, ironically, was laid to rest on Feb.

          18, 2013, Family Day in Alberta.

          Self-described as Chippewa Cree, with ties to the Turtle Mountain Reservation in North Dakota, Mishi was placed into foster care and never re-united with her biological parents. A likely victim of the Sixties Scoop–when social workers routinely removed children from their families believing they would be better off raised in non-Aboriginal families–she struggled with her identity, finding it difficult to adjust to life on her own without knowledge of her past, culture and traditions.

          “She didn’t speak much of her early life at all, and I know she was always looking for family,” said Denise Lambert.

          The two women met in 1985 while working at Native Counselling Services in Edmonton w