David Kanietakeron Fadden is a Mohawk storyteller and painter from Akwesasne. He has trained as an artist through school and under the guidance of his family—his father John who is an illustrator and painter, mother Elizabeth who is a sculptor and potter, and late grandfather Ray, who was a designer and founder of the Six Nations Indian Museum (now Six Nations Iroquois Cultural Center) in Onchiota, New York.

In addition to being featured in countless publications and museum projects, his work has been exhibited throughout New York in Albany, the Lake Placid Center for the Arts, the Unison Arts & Learning Center in New Paltz, and the National Museum of American Indian, and in Canada at the Cornwall Regional Art Gallery, the Centre Interculturel Strathearn in Montreal, and Aboriginal Art Centre in Gatineau, Quebec.