Truth/Reconciliation Part I - A Tribute to Buffy Saint Marie

Two, CBC programs, the Current and the Fifth Estate reported recently that legendary musician and activist Buffy Sainte-Marie, a female folk singer who we loved to listen to and wanted to love, well that her birth certificate, and other documents and details from family members contradict her claim that she is Indigenous.

Prior to these programs airing Buffy said “To those who question my truth, I say with love, I know who I am,” Buffy I think we know who you are too!

Family members in the US including Buffy’s younger sister, told CBC that Buffy was not adopted and does not have an indigenous ancestry. CBC located her birth certificate, which says Buffy was born in 1941 in Stoneham, Mass., to Albert and Winifred SaintaMaria, an Italian family. The document lists the baby and parents as white and includes a signature of an attending physician.