Buffy Sainte-Marie’s claims to Indigenous ancestry are being contradicted by members of the iconic singer-songwriter’s own family and an extensive CBC investigation.
By Geoff Leo, Roxanna Woloshyn and Linda Guerriero • CBC News
Buffy Sainte-Marie’s claims to Indigenous ancestry are being contradicted by members of the iconic singer-songwriter’s own family and an extensive CBC investigation.
By Geoff Leo, Roxanna Woloshyn and Linda Guerriero • CBC News
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They literally have her Massachusetts birth certificate. There is nothing tying her to being indigenous except her wanting to be perceived as such.
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Did you miss the part where they’ve found a birth certificate showing that she was not born on any reservation.
She also made official reference to her birthplace as part of getting married in 1982, just to seal the deal.
Uh, no, she wasn’t. She was born in Maine to white parents.
She may have joined the Cree nation but it seems likely it was under false pretenses.
I’m sure that she has done a lot for indigenous people and deserves some accolades but if she accepted money or awards that was meant for people that faced prejudice and oppression that’s wildly inappropriate.
As a full blooded indigenous person the news about this completely sucks
The message is …
This revelation doesn’t say that much about Santamaria … it says so much about how everyone doesn’t really care about full or mostly blooded native individuals.
Her adoptive first nations family still claims her: https://globalnews.ca/news/10049385/buffy-sainte-marie-accusations-identity/
It’s not just a question of blood quantum … it’s basically a question of theft … theft of identity, theft of culture and misrepresentation.
If I claimed I was cousin and I made a million dollars because of it, how would you feel about it? If everything I own, everything I did, every award I gained and every time I was celebrated it was because everyone said I was your cousin … how would you feel about that?
It doesn’t matter if there is no money involved … but it matters a lot when someone starts making millions out of it all.
It’s also sadistic … to think that a person could build an identity, a persona, a career worth millions on the backs of oppressed, poor people that have no chance, and then show no remorse for it all. Her career is based on what she stole from people who already had nothing. The world gave her millions so that she could share a few thousand.
It’s sickening … and to defend all that or be apologetic about it all is not right either.