Career
A Chippewa Cree originally from the Turtle Mountain region, she was taken from her birth family in the Sixties Scoop and was raised entirely by Caucasian foster families. Having long written and performed music as a personal hobby, she signed to Sunshine Records in 1993 after submitting some demo recordings to the label, and released her debut album Spirit in Flight in 1995. She followed up with two further albums, The Spirit Within in 1997 and Journey Home in 2000.
As an actress, Donovan had roles in the television series Big Bear and MythQuest.
Late in her life, Donovan revealed that she had been diagnosed with dystonia, and died in 2013 at age 48.
