In her first statement since she was stripped of the award, the singer-songwriter says that she's an American citizen and holds a U.S. passport, but was adopted as a young adult by a Cree family in Saskatchewan.

Cicansky's colourful ceramic sculptures of garden vegetables and outhouses earned national acclaim.

Neighbours quickly sprung into action, helping each other set up pumps. Others helped clean up the icy, frozen remains of the flood after the waters had receded.