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

18, 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--the decade 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 where Donovan a