Born and raised in the Cree community of Saddle Lake, Alberta, Canada, Fawn Wood
is a Juno Award-winning Indigenous singer, songwriter, and performer. She
carried on the Round Dance and Pow-Wow singing traditions of her father's Plains
Cree forefathers while inheriting the traditions and Salish chants of the
Whonnock and Stlatlimx peoples from her mother Cindy Jim-Wood. After turning her
hand to music from an early age, in 2006 she became the first female to win the
Hand Drum contest at the Gathering of Nations Pow Wow and three years later
opened the 11th Annual Native American ...