LaFortune was adopted by a white missionary couple from the Moravian church at the age of four but he remembers that his biological mother came from a lineage of Yupik medicine people and spiritual leaders.
LaFortune was adopted by a white missionary couple at the age of four and grew up in Canada and the continental United States LaFortune, Richard. LaFortune's biological mother came from a lineage of medicine people and spiritual leaders.