celeb news CBC Releases Report Questioning Buffy Sainte-Marie’s Claims to Indigenous Heritage

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The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has released a documentary and articlecalling into question the Indigenous heritage of Buffy Sainte-Marie. The decorated singer-songwriter, who released a preemptive statement yesterday, maintains that she has Native ancestry, “but there was no documentation as was common for Indigenous children born in the 1940’s.”

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A birth certificate obtained by CBC lists Sainte-Marie’s parents as Albert and Winifred Santamaria, the white couple from Massachusetts who Sainte-Marie has said adopted her. The certificate is signed by the same doctor who delivered Sainte-Marie’s sister, Lainey, in 1948.

In a 2018 interview, Sainte-Marie said she was one of many Native children removed from their homes, adopted, and “assigned kind of a biography,” in a practice known as the Sixties Scoop. “So, in many cases, adoptive people don’t really know what the true story is.” But the Sixties Scoop, CBC notes, “is widely recognized to have started in 1951. Sainte-Marie was born in 1941.”

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Elsewhere in the article, Sainte-Marie’s niece Heidi St. Marie told CBC, “Nobody except for Buffy ever talked about Buffy being adopted.” Her cousin Bruce Santamaria said his family denied Sainte-Marie’s claim that she was adopted, and believed her claim to Indigenous ancestry was a publicity stunt. He added that his family told stories of Buffy Sainte-Marie threatening family members with legal action if they spoke out.

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[Ewan Chaos]

oop @CBC get her ass 

[yassskween]

whooooo cares

[Element]

Whoa you’re so investigative @CBC!!

[nostalgic]

Iron Eyes Cody really paved the way for Sicilian-Americans to bravely masquerade as Indigenous 

[IBeMe]

oh this is kind of devastating. I literally attended a protest for indigenous rights many moons ago and she was one of the speakers and delivered such a powerful speech...she's kind of an icon in Canada...horrible if true and also horrible character assassination if not true

[Orsay]

God Is Alive Magic Is Afoot remains a hymn

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56 minutes ago, Element said:

Whoa you’re so investigative @CBC!!

Bye cause I ran in here to make the same comment

[Slamless]

Nooo omg

[wehavetostan]

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To verify Buffy's early Mi'kmaq identity claims, her younger sister took a DNA test that showed she had no Native ancestry and she says she's genetically related to Buffy's son, which would not be possible if Buffy was adopted as she claimed.

Well

[its_britney_bitch]

I mean what is her ethnicity if that’s the case because she doesn’t look European?

[Moloko Plus]

5 minutes ago, its_britney_bitch said:

I mean what is her ethnicity if that’s the case because she doesn’t look European?

She looks Italian imo

[cat1867]

In old westerns, Native Americans were historically played by Italians. Iron Eye Cody the most famous "Indian" for decades was another pureblooded Italian.

[Eeveelution]

The evidence is pretty damning. It seems like she knowingly misled people her entire career. A shame, Illuminations is such a great, forward-thinking album. 

[Communion]

The blood quantum nonsense is problematic, because indigeneity is decided by native populations and who them claim as their own, not blood tests (with often the opposite proving just as ineffective; see: Elizabeth Warren claiming native ancestry due to being like 1/72th native). It would be about if she knowingly misled or lied about being native, vs genuinely herself not having any idea what her actual ethnicity is and simply going with what her chosen family told her.

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1 hour ago, Ewan Chaos said:

oop @CBC get her ass 

  

1 hour ago, Element said:

Whoa you’re so investigative @CBC!!

mind you i was only looking for a spoon when i stumbled upon this!

 

ot: it's giving Rachel Dolezal

Edited October 27, 2023 by CBC

[cat1867]

1 hour ago, Communion said:

The blood quantum nonsense is problematic, because indigeneity is decided by native populations and who them claim as their own, not blood tests (with often the opposite proving just as ineffective; see: Elizabeth Warren claiming native ancestry due to being like 1/72th native). It would be about if she knowingly misled or lied about being native, vs genuinely herself not having any idea what her actual ethnicity is and simply going with what her chosen family told her.

Her family is completely Italian and don't claim to have any indigenous heritage. She claimed that she was forcibely adopted into said white family while her birth family were Native Americans. 

 

However, dna tests and her birth certificate prove that her white family is her birth family. 

[Legend E]

love a good detective @CBC  

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[Infatuation_Junkie]

Well that’s… disappointing 

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[Karla Cabello]

queen

[princedonte]

Cher did the same. 

[Domination]

I watched the documentary, it’s beyond any reasonable doubt that she is not of Native ancestry. The tribe she claimed did “adopt” her and continue to stand by her but the evidence that she’s Italian/English is overwhelming.

[Riot]

So a Native American is yet to win an Oscar?