Jayli Wolf
Anishinaabe / Cree
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Jayli Wolf was born in Creston, British Columbia, on November 23, 1991. Though her ethnicity was originally unclear, she discovered that she was First Nations at age eight.
Her father was taken in the devastating Sixties Scoop. The Sixties Scoop was a period between 1950 and 1990 in which the government took indigenous children from their families and placed them in the foster system. It is estimated that 20,000 children were taken from indigenous families and adopted out to white families. Jayli’s true identity was hidden for years, as the authorities covered up her father’s indigenous ethnicity in his adoption papers. Thankfully, he was later able to find his family in the Saulteau community near Chetwynd.
Wolf is bisexual and a former Jehovah’s Witness, but she left the religion after meeting her current husband. In 2012, she moved to Toronto to pursue a music career inspired by her family’s story.