Opinion Singer-Songwriter, Social Activist Buffy St Marie Stripped of Awards

[wwkirk]

Buffy Sainte-Marie made a career out of being (supposedly) a musician of indigenous ancestry. She's got employment and honors from many quarters with people believing she was who she said she was. From Wiki (footnotes removed)

Sainte-Marie has claimed that she was born on the Piapot 75 reserve in the Qu'Appelle Valley, Saskatchewan, Canada, to Cree parents. She has also claimed that, at the age of two or three, she was taken from her parents as part of the Sixties Scoop—a government policy, started in 1951, by which Indigenous children were taken from their families, communities, and cultures for placement with families that were not of First Nations heritage.

Buffy Sainte-Marie stripped of Polaris Music Prize, Juno Awards and Canadian Music Hall of Fame induction ​

Buffy Sainte-Marie was stripped Friday of her Polaris Music Prizes, Juno Awards and Canadian Music Hall of Fame induction, as the fallout continues from an investigation that raised questions about her Indigenous ancestry and Canadian citizenship.

The Polaris Music Prize, which recognizes excellence in Canadian music, and the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS), which administers the Juno Awards and Canadian Music Hall of Fame, both announced the news Friday, citing the fact that Sainte-Marie doesn’t meet their eligibility requirements because she is not a Canadian citizen. Sainte-Marie recently confirmed that she is an American citizen, who holds a U.S. passport.

She was also recently compelled to relinquish membership in the Order of Canada. While doing so, she tried to sucker people that she had never claimed to be indigenous in the first place.

Buffy Sainte-Marie Returns Order of Canada Honor ‘With a Good Heart,’ Says She Never Claimed to Be Canadian

Singer Buffy Sainte-Marie, who was stripped of the Order of Canada due to questions about her lineage, has returned the award 'with a good heart.'

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In case you're curious, two of her biggest hits.,

 

[Richmma80]

So she's like pocahontas?

 

[Vampire life]

So she’s basically a giant liar who took advantage of the latest series of lies about indegenious children from Canada
Those graves were never found and the church never stole any children

 

[Pliny Pete]

White folks always claiming they got Native blood, its either Texas, Native or Irish, aint none of them shits ever hail from anywhere else

 

[Cool Hand Luke]

I know it's not supposed to be, but this whole scenario is so hysterically funny to me.

 

[Spam On Rye]

Don't really care about awards or their personal lives. All that matters is if they make good art. That being said, I'm not into that flowery Joan Baez shit. Much prefer Link Wray.

 

[Crazy Source]

Fuck it....Ima hit this shit and rock it............

 

[Crazy Source]

Sending smoke signals back at ya..........


@Kardashians I know you like that hair.

 

[Seano]

There was this weird trend years back where people wanted to think they were native american. Its largely forgotten now.

 

[Crazy Source]

There was this weird trend years back where people wanted to think they were native american. Its largely forgotten now.

It wasn't that people wanted to think they were NA, it was because NA's had some cool customs and dress. I rock Jordan's but I don't want to be black. I eat Thai food and have looked into their cuisine. Fish sauce ftw! I don't want to be Thai, I just like cool shit. It's not weird.

 

[AWilder]

Cancelling is back on the menu?

 

[HereticBD]

It's silly to take her out of the HOF over this. Native or not, she made some bangers.

Begs the question: Was she only given all these awards because of her fake heritage?

 

[Brampton_Boy]

So she’s basically a giant liar who took advantage of the latest series of lies about indegenious children from Canada
Those graves were never found and the church never stole any children

The church absolutely ripped children from their families and forcibly placed them in reserve schools. That is not subject to debate - the church admits to doing this.

The question is whether there are mass graves of unidentified/missing children. That has yet to be substantiated and they pulled the funding to do any sort of mass scale digging.

 

[Bagatur]

More from Wiki:
Some members of the Sainte-Marie family had attempted to clarify her European ancestry in the 1960s and 1970s, but the singer threatened them with legal action for doing so ... Her brother, Alan Sainte-Marie, also wrote to newspapers, including the Denver Post in 1972, to clarify that his sister was not born on a reservation, has Caucasian parents ... On November 7, 1975, Alan Sainte-Marie received a letter from a law firm representing Buffy Sainte-Marie, which said, "We have been advised that you have without provocation disparaged and perhaps defamed Buffy and maliciously interfered with her employment opportunities." The letter also stated that no expense would be spared in pursuing legal remedies. Included with the law firm letter was a handwritten note from Buffy Sainte-Marie to her brother stating that she would expose him for allegedly sexually abusing her as a child if he continued speaking about her ancestry.

She is quite a piece of shit and stripping her of awards is the least she should get.

 

[HereticBD]

The church absolutely ripped children from their families and forcibly placed them in reserve schools. That is not subject to debate - the church admits to doing this.

The question is whether there are mass graves of unidentified/missing children. That has yet to be substantiated and they pulled the funding to do any sort of mass scale digging.

It's bullshit. They detect what could literally be anything under the ground, and they call it bones of Native Children. There's a reason the whole movement to unearth these remains, has died. It was a total grift.

 

[Cajun]

White folks always claiming they got Native blood, its either Texas, Native or Irish, aint none of them shits ever hail from anywhere else

Texas?

 

[Osculater]

White people are the true native Americans now

 

[Crazy Source]

White people are the true native Americans now

And BOOM goes the dynamite. How many years must white people wait? We have been standing in line....at Walmart! and Starbucks! And Popeye's chicken because when I get high I need one of those chicken sammies... this torture must end.

 

[Pliny Pete]

Texas?

Or Tejas, if you prefer

 

[Osculater]

And BOOM goes the dynamite. How many years must white people wait? We have been standing in line....at Walmart! and Starbucks! And Popeye's chicken because when I get high I need one of those chicken sammies... this torture must end.

No pumpkin spice all year, no peace!!!!!!!