David is a proud descendant of the Anishinaabe First Nation Peoples (the Ojibwe of northern Great Lakes and Algonquin of Ontario) on his Mother’s mother’s side, and of the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) nation [Mohawk tribe, “People of the Land of Flint”, properly known as the Kanienʼkehá꞉ka] from the eastern Great Lakes region on his Mother’s Father’s side.