References do not need to be from your home community, which ever Indigenous community you are connected too.
Written in the third person, an artist biography summarizes an artist's life and career leading up to the present moment.
Written in the first person, an artist/creator statement answers the following questions:
Why do you do your art?
What does your art signify or represent to you?
What is special about how you make or do your art?
What does 'art' mean to you?