That's still so hard for me to believe. Shame. All the good she has done now wiped out by a bunch of lies. She is still very dark to be half Irish or whatever.
@@NigelJackson oh definitely that but this will be what people will focus on not all the good she has done and fighting for the rights of Indigenous peoples of the Americas. Similar to Grey Owl and "Iron Eyes" Cody.
@@Renee-wy1po But the newest lie (response to CBC statement) is that the Santamarias are her birth parents (seems to be accepting she is not adopted but with a plot twist! Lol) but her Indian blood comes from her mom sleeping around! Out of respect for her mom she never told anyone until now. (because she is dead and can't fight back!).
@@TanBurishere Not everyone. I mean, I'm sure there were lots of people who knew or at least had a good idea, and either brushed it under the carpet or just ignored it.
As an Inuvialuk woman, my late mother was born in the forties, there was no scooping children for adoption, only scooped to be sent to a Residential School.
I dont think she "lied" about anything. It extremlely naive to think that a DNA test such as that used to determine ethnicity is infallable, or nescessary. Also , you cant really know who a person is by examining their liver . Or their DNA. I know very well through documentation that according to the US government, I am an "Indian" or indigeonous though I did not discover this as a fact for myself until I was over the age of 60 with both parents long dead. I grew up in a well educated family of politically active democratic "Irish" Catholics in South Oak Cliff , Dallas Texas. My grandfather was half Indian and born on the reservation. I had no idea. However, like Buffy, I have sufferred horrible abuse as a child though it was from doctors and clergy, and have also been a targetted individual due to my outspokenness on indigeonous matters among other issues. The U S government does not have a good record on honesty, what with allowing bounties of five dollars each to be offerred for the scalps of Indian babies by various states, as well as numerous black flag attacks in which they attacked and murdered their own people and lied about it. It's obvious to me that these attacks against Buffy are partly politically motivated and partly just the same old Bllcrp flung by those who resent strong, beautiful intelligent and accomplished woman. Italian... yeah about as much as I'm Irish. By the way. She was protecting her mother. People should know that in Boston 1941 when Buffy was born, the birth certificates of adopted children were regularly falsified to hide adoption by one or both parents. Birth certificates and DNA tests are not positive proof of anything , really. They are documents that can be faked or mistaken. To me it is readily apparent that Buffy is a real woman and she does NOT really resemble other members of her family much if at all. I saw a picture depicted on that " 5th element " video purported to be Buffy as a child which does not look like her at all. Buffy is an accomplished and talented human woman and we both have a strong connection to this land and very caring hearts. We are not breeds of animal. It is hard to piece together broken families and heritage in the face of the rapacious and hateful violence of the genocidal wars against Indians and Irish . I was once asked my race and ethnicity by audience members after singing a song close to the Plaza in Santa Fe . I truthfully said I was descended from the Irish and the Comanche peoples and they just kinda backed away a bit lol. Go away all you empty headed flibbertigibbits. She speaks for herself very well.
@@DebEDeeyou have to do the read outs more in comments there were ppl that grew up with her and ppl that watched her fame rise in the coffee houses ..they say alot things that validate these findings of her fraud They knew her as a kid ..and she looks sub meddittarian ..look at the pppl in that area and find a pic of her Mom
She didn't do it on her own. There must have been many people who were aware that there were fully aware that her story or should I say , stories, since she changed them so often were dodgy and either deliberately brushed it under the carpet or decided not to ask any awkward questions.
Definitely. Not only that, tonight my local PBS channel is going to air the "Carry It On" Bluffy documentary. PBS is forever bumming for money, so I wonder how they think airing that show could help them. When it comes to the artsy-fartsy world, though, I guess it might be a toss-up. I'm personally hoping PBS gets some backlash for supporting her now in any way.
She is also very careful to say she “doesn’t know” whether she was born in Canada or not. This was a very carefully crafted lie she was telling. Also the part of not having a birth certificate. I can’t believe it took this long for someone to look that up.
Well now that we know her as Bluffy St. Marie, who isnt native and isnt canadian either, she absolutely must be removed from the canadian songwriters hall of fame.
@@TanBurishere that's a good point. Alan Eagleson (lawyer, Manager of NHL players) had his revoked in the 90s after being found guilty of fraud. He defrauded his clients, Buffy defrauded 2 countries and more indigenous nations than I can name. I have no skin in the game, I just know her from Sesame Street and my mum's record collection. I just find it fascinating that people could build a life around a lie with such confidence.
So Ive studied tons of psychology and body language, and it is so interested watching this because her body language says so much. No one else is seeing it?
I remember being a kid and even then thinking, "she doesn't really look like [an Indian]" (as we called them back then). But over the years, I was not a huge fan, but appreciated who she was to the Indigenous community. But she just never exactly convinced me. Of course, we're in an age where you don't question, and especially as a white person--expect fury if you do! So we just kept our mouths shut. Glad to see it wasn't just me that questioned this. And yes, her body language and the choice of words she uses is very odd. So easy since her parents and older brother are now dead. But before that, she was a bit cringey.
@@talkingmotanka I think she escaped me because although I was a teenager in the 60s and a young woman in the 70s, I never liked her Warbly voice and only knew the hit song Universal Soldier. As a Canadian, I knew that at some point Canadians were thrilled to have her representing us as a celebrity but because I never liked her voice, I never paid much attention to her.
I wonder if she now has a great sense of relief knowing that finally her Lies about her indigenous background have been found out?? She almost got away with it too. Can't believe no journalist over those 60 yrs checked into her past to verify her claims. She is now the Long Lance of Canadian music.
Nah, I don't think she feels relief. She just keeps adding more lies (her video statement!). And other than finding a Canadian tribe in Saskatchewan to help her become a pretendian, and stating here that she made Joni Mitchell and Neil Young famous, she is in no way Canadian.
No she’s just telling even more lies, now she’s claiming that she wasn’t adopted and that her mother cheated on her husband with an indigenous man and that she had to lie about being adopted for 60 years to protect her mothers reputation
Between the terms "Bluffy", "Pretendian", and "Gravy Seal (chubby men who wrongly claim they were Navy Seals)" my faith is restored that humans are witty and downright hilarious creatures. Cheers
@@KevinKenna-j6o always glib and giggling. No ounce of empathy. She’s a narcissist. We are exploring that very thing in a series of videos with HG Tudor on TH-cam.
I don’t believe she was ever blacklisted. Notice how she suddenly doesn’t really know anything about that despite the interviewer telling her, she must’ve known something. Oh no, she says, just like with her birthplace.
Oh Buffy … I’m from Australia each Anzac Day I play Universal Soldier I’m 63 and had not known you wrote Universal Soldier I was ignorant of the wonderful author… I listen to your truth words War Racket… may peace be known for our childrens children.
Her memory must be going! In another interview the one & only indigenous person was the mailman (postman), in this interview there's a couple who run a trading post....trading post???, making headdresses for the movies??? She went to SK first at age 18 or 19 but she somehow managed to do 4 years at uni by the time she was 22? She's a good liar. A body language expert would have a field day with how she's holding herself. I wonder if Joni Mitchell is aware that BSM helped her career so much? Seems that Joni was doing just fine in the '60's and in multiple articles in both US & Canadian newspapers there is no mention of BSM (except in one where it says BSM was in the audience while Joni was on stage and only mentions BSM because she later sang one of Joni's songs).
This interviewer makes me laugh now knowing what we know, those questions now sound awful skeptical, even though at the time he and everyone else had no idea 😂🤣
ALL THE PRIZES AWARDS VISIBILITY MONEY EARNED WAS FOR HER NOT THE NATIVE PEOPLES IT WAS NOT HERS TO HAVE SHE IS FROM ITALIAN DECENT DIDN'T KNOW ONE FIGURED IT OUT IN 60 YEARS🤦♂️😢😢😢😢
Her parents were interviewed in the '60s, and said they weren't Indians, and Beverley wasn't adopted. Then her brother spoke to the Children's Television Workshop, and told them his sister wasn't adopted. She threatened to claim he molested her as a child, so he backed off. Three years ago, her son Cody posted on Twitter that his mother was "Italian-English." He also surmised why his mother started claiming to be an Indian. So the truth has been out there all along; _no one was listening._
Buffy St Marie is A TREASURE, truly a pillar of culture, a woman of courage and amazing talent ! Thank you Q for inviting her into peoples' homes via this great interview! Until It's Time For You To Go, one of my all time favourite songs. SO many songs, books, inspirations from such a Gifted One!
Watching this is quite shocking after seeing all the evidence exposing her lies about her indigenity and being adopted!! What a delusional old lady. So sad. Bluffy owes many many apologies to so many people!!
This is amazing. How did I miss out on Buffy Sainte-Marie? I know I heard her music on the radio but never encountered this amazing personality--her fascinating perspective.
She was the one who taught me about the history of indigenous people through her songs. Her other songs are perfect and she's never written a bad one. I love her.
"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" CBC news 2023 FRAUD FRAUD FRAUD
Send her a message that the entire set she played in the 1965 film by Murray Goldin is gathering dust in his archive now handled by his son. Maybe it can be restored and released
I was watching *Resident Evil" when Buffy's song *My Way* was playing. Her Great Works are - relevant today. I had to see what my sister Hero was up to... A TRUE Treasure!
As far as 'Up Where We Belong'. I read that three people were involved. Buffy and her then husband composed the music. Another songwriter named Will Jennings wrote the lyrics.
I love Buffy, because she is my cousin from the First Nation Piapot Band 75, Saskatchewan, and my uncle Emile Piapot adopted her in 1966 into our tribe. Her parents were originally from Craven Saskatchewan where Buffy was born back in 1941, and my mother knows her biological parents.Tansi.
She says her career was dead in the water because she was being blacklisted. I’ve read it was dead in the water, because music was changing. So she got that job on Sesame Street. All on false pretenses, of course. Themind boggles at this woman.
And she made sure she took the time to slag off Pete Seeger. He bullied her! He apologized, but not then! She always always falters when an interviewer asks her about where she was born, and where she grew up.
At 54, after spending a lifetime playing music, learning music, listening to music, amassing hundreds of thousands of songs and compositions of all genres, terabytes of music files - with an unceasing love for world music, folk music, and 60's music - I only discovered Buffy 2 weeks ago while randomly exploring music on youtube. How can this be? How can this absolutely brilliant genius have escaped me? I feel like a starving man just discovering food. I can't get enough of her. She is simply wonderful.
Welcome to the fan-club, James! You've found a treasure! I'm not affiliated with Buffy in any way - just a fellow fan - but I might humbly suggest that you look into who she is as well as what she's created. Her life is as interesting as her music.
Hi, there's the George Attla docu, he's a Sled dog racer. Buffy's music is in that short video. Hope you can fine it. Another great appreciation of Artists and the people she meets. The words she writes. Appreciate her throughout time.
wow,wow,wow will there be more half hour just flew by So good to see an hear she still doing her thing. By way the songwriter credits aare the names in brackets under the artist or title on a disc for those who obviously didn't know. lol and my Donovan version of Universal Soldier does have her name as writer. Lol What a Amazing women thanks for showing this and plz get her back for more
I love everything about this woman - she is remarkable. Used to go to hear her in the sixties, and have heard her recently, ad she is every bit as wonderful - and more. Surprisingly good interviewer, too.
@@rosewoodsteel6656 best interviewee ever! Loves to talk about herself, and subtly put all those other musicians down. Typical narcissist sees herself as a bit of a victim. Other people recorded her music and people thought they had written it! Oh, dear! How terrible! Never says anything nice about her so-called adoptive family. In fact, I have heard her say that the house and neighbourhood were “full of pedophiles”! Not just one but one on every doorstep. That is not the way a survivor of sexual abuse would speak of it.
now i'm processing the profound loss of not having been guided by her music/messages in my formative years because i didn't know that she had been blacklisted. have only been healing from her powerful medicine these last few years. and it turns out that Buffy is the only reason i enjoyed Joni's brilliance during those years.
Woody acknowledged his own ancestry was from "unnamed Indian tribe lines" but yes it was a gaffe he wrote "This land is your land this land is my land" only if you contort his true feelings.
Isn’t obvious she’s faking it. I live near a reservation. I have never seen a first native senior look like her. People of different heritage tend to age differently.
Buffy is such a pleasure to watch and listen to! She has this depth of wisdom and knowledge that I can only hope to have one day, yet she wears her heart and emotions on her sleeve like a five year old. She's accomplished so much - but it's who she is that makes her one of my heroes.
Ms. St M., a raw talent and educator in her own right in any race, shed a purely positive light in her representation of The People. But however eloquent and personally sincere her endeavor and perhaps initially unintended mascarade, it cannot be overlooked that she came from a source of privilege, not the true oppression inside and outside reserve life that indigenous people have suffered since the failure of the genocide. There is generational deep pain; burning acknowledgement, material lack and prejudice to overcome. There is disappointment in finding out a hero of the People has no blood or roots, in spite of the purity of her intention. There is a lie here, however well intended or inadvertent, there is a lie here.
@@lindabudmountainhomenc2361 I have zero first-hand experience on Buffy's familial origins, as do any of us. However, I can't help but find the sources suspect. The Fifth Estate has often stood at odds with Buffy's activism, and the fact that these documents come from the children of the man she's named as her childhood abuser... well, it doesn't make for an impartial case. My own suspicion (and suspicion is all it can be for any of us) is that Buffy's birth records were listed as they were to spare her the "difficulty" of being First Nations - a misguided practice that was not uncommon in those days. In any case, having been officially adopted by a noted Piapot chief makes her his family, whatever her origins. She's lived the life, walked the walk, and done more for her (perhaps adopted) people than most. In my personal opinion, that goes a long way.
What a beautiful twist of fate...that an attempt at silencing truths by the establishment, turns into one of the biggest, most important exposures in history. I'm born in '65 and remember watching Buffy on Sesame Street. I loved that show for the educational value, even as a young child. Fascinated by truths never spoken in my own world. Great interview. Thank you for being such an amazing teacher Buffy.🙏❤️🫂
@Apachita you know she's adopted, right? I've done genealogy research, and it wasn't the science that it is today. She only knows what she was told, and I don't believe she's the kind of person to lie about her genetics for $ or exposure. Why would she need to do that? Some people just go around this world looking to hang others because they are unhappy with their own life. Those folks need to do some introspection and ask themselves why they feel the need to control or condemn others.
@@Mystic_Light I guess you haven't seen the cbc documentary that proved that no, she most definitely was not adopted. Not even Buffy is claiming that anymore. Turns out she is one of the worst liars and biggest pretendians to date. Obviously she couldn't refute the birth certificate that was exposed or the threat letters she sent her family. So instead, in her recent response statement, she makes up a brand new lie. Suddenly now her fictitious native heritage is from her mother being an adulterous. Watch any of her interviews and its obvious in all of them why she did it.....grandiose narcissism. Speaking of science....she could so easily take a dna test but my guess is that she never will. Pathological liars never admit they lied and will always just make up a new lie. Its a disgrace what she did and IMO she doesn't deserve any of her awards that were based on lies.
@@andres6868 she certainly darkened it over the years. She has olive skin when in the early days. Very beautiful! And when you look at the photos now, she does look Italian. Someone mentioned under an article I read that she lived in Hawaii for awhile and I think she naturally darkened that way too, but her skin has oranged more recently. Lol
Kinda reminds me of lime'd haole. 😂 (There's a chemical in fresh limes which makes skin tan super fast, and kind of orange-y, so sometimes when tourists accidentally drip lime juice from drinks on their skin, they get these weird tanned blobs which freak them out.) She's lived in Hawaii for a long time, probably got the idea there.
This is becoming very confusing. If we understand that her "adopted family" in Massachusetts is her biological family now, and she's claiming that her mother was part Micmac, that would make her part Micmac also. To what degree?--who knows. But many claim Indigenous ancestry with a small blood quantum these days.
Early in the 20th Century there was a man who called himself Grey Owl, in truth, his real name was Archie Belaney, an Englishman. Grey Owl was exposed after his death by the North Bay Nugget, a Canadian Newspaper. The Aboriginal People who new him a the time sought not to judge him for his deception, but by the message that he spread to the World about the importance of conservation. In todays World, as we can see, there is no shortage of people waiting in the shadows to belittle such people as Buffy Sainte Marie. I think as humans we need to be honest with ourselves and the World about what it is that each and every one of us has contributed for the betterment of society, if indeed anything. Perhaps, regardless of this woman's false identity, we should acknowledge her monumental contribution to citizens of the World in highlighting the injustices that have been exacted upon indigenous People by the Colonisers and beyond that worked tirelessly help to promote change that will ensure the future of indigenous children is far better than their ancestors.
She's a teacher, huh? Teach ya how to set up a con and make millions off it over the course of decades. Sounds like a good gig if you're a conscious-less narcissist.
HERE IS ANOTHER VERSION with new and different details some like :the only Indigenous guy was the post man" last time, l noticed this guy has asked for a name & she had it, at the ready but then tags on the vagueness AGAIN with "well we don't know all those records are sealed" she mentions being busted by the Toronto Star for going to the Pow Pow where she meets --GET THIS-- her POSSIBLE REAL PARENTS from the reserve she was born at, but her adoptive mother is also part native but no one ever talked about it: believable? If I was hearing this without my "Buffy is an ICON of Canada" conditioning, I'd be so confused as the story is all over the place. I tell ya YOU build the bomb that blows up your OWN life & if your life STORY a complete construct🎆🪪🇨🇦She claimed in another book she would "visit her parents in Saskatchewan to TEACH (not learn) CREE to native kids behind her fathers house" ?🤢. She always saying something happened then right after "but I never knew FOR SURE at the time" so all these escape doors you know for deniability if questioned for too much details. She's clearly sharp and has a good memory, and it still isn't as good as the truth would be. The best liars always have total bona fide details weaved in with the vague and the laughably outrageous. I wonder if she WAS blacklisted in the early 70s when Arlo, Country Joe Joan Baez & the rest weren't. Her other blood family were threatened and got ZERO acknowledgement for the happy middle class childhood she had growing up: white & entitled & sent to university to take on the world. They raised a Superstar, a good songwriter and someone who felt she had to be a native to be unique. They raised a liar who insults real victims of the Scoop policies, victims of residential schools, and sexual & physical abuse. When you look at it all dispassionately, its all so obvious. Saying AFTER HER mum died that she was half Cree or Mik'maq Then its "she hsd an affair' It was likely because she looks SO much like her mum. So mom had to be unwed mother who gave birth in Saskatchewan? Then she WASN'T adopted??? This is literally what she has said. It's an insult to our intelligence. When something can be easily checked as fact, often it NEVER is because we assume NO ONE WOULD LIE ABOUT SOMETHING SO BASIC BIRTHPLACE, Military service , dropping out of Harvard, being adopted. We called her an icon in Canada. She's not even Canadian! Likely saved millions in tax 😂 I dunno . But that is why we have the word Iconoclast . Our need to worship is one of our worst habits. Im glad I didn't.
Hello. I am a film maker and just made a very revealing, but also poignant short film about Buffy. It's a work of fiction and reads somewhat like a children's story, taking place here on the Mescalero Apache Reservation in Southern New Mexico. Please let me know what you think of this! - _The Acoustic Rabbit Hole_
Bluffy Santamaria...A brave, courageous voice honouring her Italian ancestors...
😂😂😂
why do some leftist women resort to this ?
That's still so hard for me to believe. Shame. All the good she has done now wiped out by a bunch of lies. She is still very dark to be half Irish or whatever.
@@markhyman5825 I don't think it negates the fact that she is highly talented as an artist. Nothing will change that...
@@NigelJackson oh definitely that but this will be what people will focus on not all the good she has done and fighting for the rights of Indigenous peoples of the Americas. Similar to Grey Owl and "Iron Eyes" Cody.
An Italian American hero!
😂 she even said that her adopted mom was part native in this video, the lies 😔
@@Renee-wy1po But the newest lie (response to CBC statement) is that the Santamarias are her birth parents (seems to be accepting she is not adopted but with a plot twist! Lol) but her Indian blood comes from her mom sleeping around! Out of respect for her mom she never told anyone until now. (because she is dead and can't fight back!).
Lol good one!😂
She could do an AI generated duet with Frank Sinatra maybe New York, New York. Italian legends 🤡
No kidding lol
What a difference a year makes!
She’s as First Nations as Conan O’Brien.
She really played everyone didn't she?
What a disgrace!
A sociopath really.
Threatening family if they outed her?
Evil.
Conan's DNA test said 100% irish, he is indigenous, just to a island on the other side of the pond.
@@TanBurishere Not everyone. I mean, I'm sure there were lots of people who knew or at least had a good idea, and either brushed it under the carpet or just ignored it.
As an Inuvialuk woman, my late mother was born in the forties, there was no scooping children for adoption, only scooped to be sent to a Residential School.
That's because she lied. She lied about everything.
I pity her family she ghosted and threatened all to cos play an Indigenous woman.
Thanks for that important information since many of us simply didn’t know about that time period.
I dont think she "lied" about anything. It extremlely naive to think that a DNA test such as that used to determine ethnicity is infallable, or nescessary. Also , you cant really know who a person is by examining their liver . Or their DNA. I know very well through documentation that according to the US government, I am an "Indian" or indigeonous though I did not discover this as a fact for myself until I was over the age of 60 with both parents long dead. I grew up in a well educated family of politically active democratic "Irish" Catholics in South Oak Cliff , Dallas Texas. My grandfather was half Indian and born on the reservation. I had no idea. However, like Buffy, I have sufferred horrible abuse as a child though it was from doctors and clergy, and have also been a targetted individual due to my outspokenness on indigeonous matters among other issues. The U S government does not have a good record on honesty, what with allowing bounties of five dollars each to be offerred for the scalps of Indian babies by various states, as well as numerous black flag attacks in which they attacked and murdered their own people and lied about it. It's obvious to me that these attacks against Buffy are partly politically motivated and partly just the same old Bllcrp flung by those who resent strong, beautiful intelligent and accomplished woman. Italian... yeah about as much as I'm Irish. By the way. She was protecting her mother. People should know that in Boston 1941 when Buffy was born, the birth certificates of adopted children were regularly falsified to hide adoption by one or both parents. Birth certificates and DNA tests are not positive proof of anything , really. They are documents that can be faked or mistaken. To me it is readily apparent that Buffy is a real woman and she does NOT really resemble other members of her family much if at all. I saw a picture depicted on that " 5th element " video purported to be Buffy as a child which does not look like her at all. Buffy is an accomplished and talented human woman and we both have a strong connection to this land and very caring hearts. We are not breeds of animal. It is hard to piece together broken families and heritage in the face of the rapacious and hateful violence of the genocidal wars against Indians and Irish . I was once asked my race and ethnicity by audience members after singing a song close to the Plaza in Santa Fe . I truthfully said I was descended from the Irish and the Comanche peoples and they just kinda backed away a bit lol. Go away all you empty headed flibbertigibbits. She speaks for herself very well.
@@DebEDeeyou have to do the read outs more in comments there were ppl that grew up with her and ppl that watched her fame rise in the coffee houses ..they say alot things that validate these findings of her fraud
They knew her as a kid ..and she looks sub meddittarian ..look at the pppl in that area and find a pic of her Mom
This is so, so painful. How could she keep up this charade for 60 years?? 😢
Money. Prestige. Power. That’s how.
@@hammill444 and greed.
When someone constantly wears turquoise and feathers...dead giveaway. Deeeaaad giveaway.
She tried/trys too hard to convince us she is indigenous with her feathers and dressings. In my opinion.
She didn't do it on her own. There must have been many people who were aware that there were fully aware that her story or should I say , stories, since she changed them so often were dodgy and either deliberately brushed it under the carpet or decided not to ask any awkward questions.
This interview is hilarious now that the truth is out
that's how I see it too lol. all the words she uses to talk in this weird, "survivor" mode.
Definitely. Not only that, tonight my local PBS channel is going to air the "Carry It On" Bluffy documentary. PBS is forever bumming for money, so I wonder how they think airing that show could help them. When it comes to the artsy-fartsy world, though, I guess it might be a toss-up. I'm personally hoping PBS gets some backlash for supporting her now in any way.
Poor Tom Power and everybody else who got sucked in by her.
And painful
She is also very careful to say she “doesn’t know” whether she was born in Canada or not. This was a very carefully crafted lie she was telling. Also the part of not having a birth certificate. I can’t believe it took this long for someone to look that up.
Well now that we know her as Bluffy St. Marie, who isnt native and isnt canadian either, she absolutely must be removed from the canadian songwriters hall of fame.
“Bluffy” 😂
Kinda like "Archie Baloney" aka "Grey Owl."
I agree
Do they revoke her Order of Canada membership or is it like Costco where you pay annual dues to get all the great deals in bulk?
It should be. Her citizenship isn’t even valid. Born and raised in the US to American citizens.
Everything she achieved by cos playing an Indigenous woman should be revoked
@@TanBurishere that's a good point. Alan Eagleson (lawyer, Manager of NHL players) had his revoked in the 90s after being found guilty of fraud. He defrauded his clients, Buffy defrauded 2 countries and more indigenous nations than I can name. I have no skin in the game, I just know her from Sesame Street and my mum's record collection. I just find it fascinating that people could build a life around a lie with such confidence.
Hopefully, they'll pass a law to reprimand these frauds. Play Indian go straight to Prison.
She is such a good fibber
So Ive studied tons of psychology and body language, and it is so interested watching this because her body language says so much. No one else is seeing it?
I’m certainly seeing her heavy facial makeup, like pancake makeup.
I see it. You should check out her body language in her Sesame Street appearances.
I remember being a kid and even then thinking, "she doesn't really look like [an Indian]" (as we called them back then). But over the years, I was not a huge fan, but appreciated who she was to the Indigenous community. But she just never exactly convinced me. Of course, we're in an age where you don't question, and especially as a white person--expect fury if you do! So we just kept our mouths shut. Glad to see it wasn't just me that questioned this. And yes, her body language and the choice of words she uses is very odd. So easy since her parents and older brother are now dead. But before that, she was a bit cringey.
How would we see anything in her body language when we’re not body language experts?
@@talkingmotanka I think she escaped me because although I was a teenager in the 60s and a young woman in the 70s, I never liked her Warbly voice and only knew the hit song Universal Soldier. As a Canadian, I knew that at some point Canadians were thrilled to have her representing us as a celebrity but because I never liked her voice, I never paid much attention to her.
I wonder if she now has a great sense of relief knowing that finally her Lies about her indigenous background have been found out?? She almost got away with it too. Can't believe no journalist over those 60 yrs checked into her past to verify her claims. She is now the Long Lance of Canadian music.
Nah, I don't think she feels relief. She just keeps adding more lies (her video statement!). And other than finding a Canadian tribe in Saskatchewan to help her become a pretendian, and stating here that she made Joni Mitchell and Neil Young famous, she is in no way Canadian.
No she’s just telling even more lies, now she’s claiming that she wasn’t adopted and that her mother cheated on her husband with an indigenous man and that she had to lie about being adopted for 60 years to protect her mothers reputation
@@Apachita definitely a narcissist. She’s always better than everybody else.
I wonder what her relationship is like with her son. Must’ve been hard having a narcissist for a mother.
Love how she manages to put down one of the co-writers of her song. She’s really a vicious narcissist.
Every once in a while that Boston accent pops out. She probably thought she was wicked smhaat all these years.
It’s still so shocking to me as I review all of this footage. Shocking that she knew.
She was with the Pi-pots, but she was actually a sadistic Pol-Pot!
Bluffy.
🤣 love this!
Between the terms "Bluffy", "Pretendian", and "Gravy Seal (chubby men who wrongly claim they were Navy Seals)" my faith is restored that humans are witty and downright hilarious creatures. Cheers
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The truth comes out, non one ounce on Canadian Indigenous blood.
Makes video even more fascinating.
every day is Halloween for Bluffy
@@geraldmartin7703 watching her lie and lie and lie.
@@KevinKenna-j6o always glib and giggling. No ounce of empathy. She’s a narcissist. We are exploring that very thing in a series of videos with HG Tudor on TH-cam.
I don’t believe she was ever blacklisted. Notice how she suddenly doesn’t really know anything about that despite the interviewer telling her, she must’ve known something. Oh no, she says, just like with her birthplace.
"Living Legend"? That's a good one!
Watch the fifth estate!!!
Oh Buffy … I’m from Australia each Anzac Day I play Universal Soldier I’m 63 and had not known you wrote Universal Soldier I was ignorant of the wonderful author…
I listen to your truth words War Racket… may peace be known for our childrens children.
Her memory must be going! In another interview the one & only indigenous person was the mailman (postman), in this interview there's a couple who run a trading post....trading post???, making headdresses for the movies???
She went to SK first at age 18 or 19 but she somehow managed to do 4 years at uni by the time she was 22? She's a good liar. A body language expert would have a field day with how she's holding herself.
I wonder if Joni Mitchell is aware that BSM helped her career so much? Seems that Joni was doing just fine in the '60's and in multiple articles in both US & Canadian newspapers there is no mention of BSM (except in one where it says BSM was in the audience while Joni was on stage and only mentions BSM because she later sang one of Joni's songs).
The bigger they are, the harder they fall..
This interviewer makes me laugh now knowing what we know, those questions now sound awful skeptical, even though at the time he and everyone else had no idea 😂🤣
ALL THE PRIZES AWARDS VISIBILITY MONEY EARNED WAS FOR HER NOT THE NATIVE PEOPLES IT WAS NOT HERS TO HAVE SHE IS FROM ITALIAN DECENT DIDN'T KNOW ONE FIGURED IT OUT IN 60 YEARS🤦♂️😢😢😢😢
Her body language is interesting
Her parents were interviewed in the '60s, and said they weren't Indians, and Beverley wasn't adopted. Then her brother spoke to the Children's Television Workshop, and told them his sister wasn't adopted. She threatened to claim he molested her as a child, so he backed off. Three years ago, her son Cody posted on Twitter that his mother was "Italian-English." He also surmised why his mother started claiming to be an Indian. So the truth has been out there all along; _no one was listening._
Buffy St Marie is A TREASURE, truly a pillar of culture, a woman of courage and amazing talent ! Thank you Q for inviting her into peoples' homes via this great interview! Until It's Time For You To Go, one of my all time favourite songs. SO many songs, books, inspirations from such a Gifted One!
This comment hasn't aged well.
Watching this is quite shocking after seeing all the evidence exposing her lies about her indigenity and being adopted!! What a delusional old lady. So sad. Bluffy owes many many apologies to so many people!!
She can appologize in Italian lol
This is amazing. How did I miss out on Buffy Sainte-Marie? I know I heard her music on the radio but never encountered this amazing personality--her fascinating perspective.
lol
4:18 - start of so many lies start here....
She was the one who taught me about the history of indigenous people through her songs. Her other songs are perfect and she's never written a bad one. I love her.
"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" CBC news 2023
FRAUD FRAUD FRAUD
So weird to have learned about Native American history from an Irish Italian.
not irish@@frasertones8519
@@frasertones8519😂👏🏼😆
She's still so Beautiful!!!! Wado Buffy for all your music and work!!! Love ya!
Send her a message that the entire set she played in the 1965 film by Murray Goldin is gathering dust in his archive now handled by his son. Maybe it can be restored and released
What film is this?
Luv Buffy ❤
OMG ,can't believe that Buffy is 81 yrs old . Such an amazing woman .
I guess she can't lie about that.
Italians tend to age well.
@@rosewoodsteel6656 Do Italians do it better?
I can't believe she is Italian, makes me happy. I'm Italian lol
@@BananaJSSI Italians do it better.
I an sorry for your loss TomPower: an American singer faking her way to be an Aboriginal and a Canadian
I was watching *Resident Evil" when Buffy's song *My Way* was playing. Her Great Works are - relevant today. I had to see what my sister Hero was up to... A TRUE Treasure!
As far as 'Up Where We Belong'.
I read that three people were involved. Buffy and her then husband composed the music. Another songwriter named Will Jennings wrote the lyrics.
I figured she probably married the music producer just so she could produce a song that might win an Oscar.
I love Buffy, because she is my cousin from the First Nation Piapot Band 75, Saskatchewan, and my uncle Emile Piapot adopted her in 1966 into our tribe. Her parents were originally from Craven Saskatchewan where Buffy was born back in 1941, and my mother knows her biological parents.Tansi.
Buffy ...is an Eternal Treasure of the Heart..Globally..for so many ...I've listened to the Buffy podcast 2×...
Liars and provocateurs and Deceivers and Believers!!!
This didn't age well.
Your mother knew her biological parents? 😂 Buffy, it turns out, was NOT born in Saskatchewan. Check out the recent CBC show about Buffy’s origins. 😉
Sorry she lied to them. She's not Indigenous
She says her career was dead in the water because she was being blacklisted. I’ve read it was dead in the water, because music was changing. So she got that job on Sesame Street. All on false pretenses, of course. Themind boggles at this woman.
And she made sure she took the time to slag off Pete Seeger. He bullied her! He apologized, but not then! She always always falters when an interviewer asks her about where she was born, and where she grew up.
At 54, after spending a lifetime playing music, learning music, listening to music, amassing hundreds of thousands of songs and compositions of all genres, terabytes of music files - with an unceasing love for world music, folk music, and 60's music - I only discovered Buffy 2 weeks ago while randomly exploring music on youtube.
How can this be? How can this absolutely brilliant genius have escaped me? I feel like a starving man just discovering food. I can't get enough of her. She is simply wonderful.
Welcome to the fan-club, James! You've found a treasure!
I'm not affiliated with Buffy in any way - just a fellow fan - but I might humbly suggest that you look into who she is as well as what she's created. Her life is as interesting as her music.
Hi, there's the George Attla docu, he's a Sled dog racer. Buffy's music is in that short video. Hope you can fine it. Another great appreciation of Artists and the people she meets. The words she writes. Appreciate her throughout time.
She has been exposed as a fraud
Now, hold your horses, there, not so fast...she's not what she seems.
@@adreabrooks11 "Her life is as interesting as her music" Can't argue with that.
wow,wow,wow will there be more half hour just flew by So good to see an hear she still doing her thing. By way the songwriter credits aare the names in brackets under the artist or title on a disc for those who obviously didn't know. lol and my Donovan version of Universal Soldier does have her name as writer. Lol What a Amazing women thanks for showing this and plz get her back for more
“We think”.. what’s up Buffy?
I’ve always loved you and your music!
I love everything about this woman - she is remarkable. Used to go to hear her in the sixties, and have heard her recently, ad she is every bit as wonderful - and more. Surprisingly good interviewer, too.
Do you love the fact that she’s a total fraud?
Yep, she kinds of makes it up as the interview goes along.
@@rosewoodsteel6656 best interviewee ever! Loves to talk about herself, and subtly put all those other musicians down. Typical narcissist sees herself as a bit of a victim. Other people recorded her music and people thought they had written it! Oh, dear! How terrible! Never says anything nice about her so-called adoptive family. In fact, I have heard her say that the house and neighbourhood were “full of pedophiles”! Not just one but one on every doorstep. That is not the way a survivor of sexual abuse would speak of it.
She should be elated when others record her music. The women obviously has a problem with her ego. @@lindajones8101
love the save rez dogs shirt ❤
Why doesn’t the Fakian just do a DNA test?
I believe that her son has and he said his mother is Italian and English. No indigenous dna.
More holes in that story than Swiss cheese.
Bless Buffy, she is an extraordinary woman. I have followed her since the early seventies.
To bad she's a fraud.
now i'm processing the profound loss of not having been guided by her music/messages in my formative years because i didn't know that she had been blacklisted. have only been healing from her powerful medicine these last few years. and it turns out that Buffy is the only reason i enjoyed Joni's brilliance during those years.
She hadn't been blacklisted. It is pure fabrication, just like her Indian ancestry. Google TH-cam and you will find out the truth about this woman.
th-cam.com/video/eMsqCWNCUc4/w-d-xo.htmlsi=LYvBwdqMCaeX9xhL
30 minutes just flew by, I absolutely love Buffy! I got to see her in 2017 at the Regina folk festival! I wish we could’ve met ❤ such an icon
Bluffy the fraud.
Buffy is my type of person. Totally Unselfish. Love her.
You have no idea how selfish she is, Joan. If you take a few minutes Googling her on TH-cam, it won't take you long to find out her true story.
I love her!!!
81....? I woulda said 41. Damn.
Maybe 71. LOL
You need glasses and to get out more.
I love her so much💕
Woody acknowledged his own ancestry was from "unnamed Indian tribe lines" but yes it was a gaffe he wrote "This land is your land this land is my land" only if you contort his true feelings.
Isn’t obvious she’s faking it. I live near a reservation. I have never seen a first native senior look like her. People of different heritage tend to age differently.
Now she's claiming to have discovered Joni Mitchell. 😂. What about David Crosby???
I named my dog Buffy in 1968
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Imagine lying so smuggly, for so long...
Like a true sociopath. Lol
Unbelievable!
Buffy needs to apologize and come clean. Talk about appropriation!
She is too far gone. Complete psychopath exposed.
This woman is a true gift to the human race.
Meh, this didn’t age well
Celebrating a fraud.
Don't you mean disgrace? Bluffy the Italian pretendian.
You mean grift.
That has come into doubt in light of recent events
What a wonderful interview with Buffy. She's a true legend. Thank you!! ❤
Buffy is such a pleasure to watch and listen to! She has this depth of wisdom and knowledge that I can only hope to have one day, yet she wears her heart and emotions on her sleeve like a five year old. She's accomplished so much - but it's who she is that makes her one of my heroes.
Ms. St M., a raw talent and educator in her own right in any race, shed a purely positive light in her representation of The People. But however eloquent and personally sincere her endeavor and perhaps initially unintended mascarade, it cannot be overlooked that she came from a source of privilege, not the true oppression inside and outside reserve life that indigenous people have suffered since the failure of the genocide. There is generational deep pain; burning acknowledgement, material lack and prejudice to overcome.
There is disappointment in finding out a hero of the People has no blood or roots, in spite of the purity of her intention.
There is a lie here, however well intended or inadvertent, there is a lie here.
@@lindabudmountainhomenc2361 I have zero first-hand experience on Buffy's familial origins, as do any of us. However, I can't help but find the sources suspect. The Fifth Estate has often stood at odds with Buffy's activism, and the fact that these documents come from the children of the man she's named as her childhood abuser... well, it doesn't make for an impartial case.
My own suspicion (and suspicion is all it can be for any of us) is that Buffy's birth records were listed as they were to spare her the "difficulty" of being First Nations - a misguided practice that was not uncommon in those days.
In any case, having been officially adopted by a noted Piapot chief makes her his family, whatever her origins. She's lived the life, walked the walk, and done more for her (perhaps adopted) people than most. In my personal opinion, that goes a long way.
Pretending to be something she is not
What a beautiful twist of fate...that an attempt at silencing truths by the establishment, turns into one of the biggest, most important exposures in history. I'm born in '65 and remember watching Buffy on Sesame Street. I loved that show for the educational value, even as a young child. Fascinated by truths never spoken in my own world. Great interview. Thank you for being such an amazing teacher Buffy.🙏❤️🫂
Yes..yes..yes..
"most important exposures in history" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 So true but it happened just recently when Buffy was finally exposed!
@Apachita you know she's adopted, right? I've done genealogy research, and it wasn't the science that it is today. She only knows what she was told, and I don't believe she's the kind of person to lie about her genetics for $ or exposure. Why would she need to do that? Some people just go around this world looking to hang others because they are unhappy with their own life. Those folks need to do some introspection and ask themselves why they feel the need to control or condemn others.
@@Mystic_Light I guess you haven't seen the cbc documentary that proved that no, she most definitely was not adopted. Not even Buffy is claiming that anymore. Turns out she is one of the worst liars and biggest pretendians to date. Obviously she couldn't refute the birth certificate that was exposed or the threat letters she sent her family. So instead, in her recent response statement, she makes up a brand new lie. Suddenly now her fictitious native heritage is from her mother being an adulterous. Watch any of her interviews and its obvious in all of them why she did it.....grandiose narcissism. Speaking of science....she could so easily take a dna test but my guess is that she never will. Pathological liars never admit they lied and will always just make up a new lie. Its a disgrace what she did and IMO she doesn't deserve any of her awards that were based on lies.
@@Mystic_Light If she’s adopted, how come her niece DNA test matched with her son?
That orange skin reminds me of someone..... what was his name??? ...... lies a lot too. Like her. His CON is coming unraveled now too. Interesting.
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she obviously has used dark makeup to make her look native, obviously
@@andres6868 she certainly darkened it over the years. She has olive skin when in the early days. Very beautiful! And when you look at the photos now, she does look Italian.
Someone mentioned under an article I read that she lived in Hawaii for awhile and I think she naturally darkened that way too, but her skin has oranged more recently. Lol
They must have the same makeup supplier.
Kinda reminds me of lime'd haole. 😂
(There's a chemical in fresh limes which makes skin tan super fast, and kind of orange-y, so sometimes when tourists accidentally drip lime juice from drinks on their skin, they get these weird tanned blobs which freak them out.)
She's lived in Hawaii for a long time, probably got the idea there.
Yeah Buffy!!! Soo nice that you are still rocking🙏🏽♥️😎 My brother Will Johnson Bluehouse and I, are your number one fans! Thank you, Buffy♥️
Grating
Fantastic woman!
This is becoming very confusing. If we understand that her "adopted family" in Massachusetts is her biological family now, and she's claiming that her mother was part Micmac, that would make her part Micmac also. To what degree?--who knows. But many claim Indigenous ancestry with a small blood quantum these days.
None of that is true.
Early in the 20th Century there was a man who called himself Grey Owl, in truth, his real name was Archie Belaney, an Englishman. Grey Owl was exposed after his death by the North Bay Nugget, a Canadian Newspaper. The Aboriginal People who new him a the time sought not to judge him for his deception, but by the message that he spread to the World about the importance of conservation. In todays World, as we can see, there is no shortage of people waiting in the shadows to belittle such people as Buffy Sainte Marie. I think as humans we need to be honest with ourselves and the World about what it is that each and every one of us has contributed for the betterment of society, if indeed anything. Perhaps, regardless of this woman's false identity, we should acknowledge her monumental contribution to citizens of the World in highlighting the injustices that have been exacted upon indigenous People by the Colonisers and beyond that worked tirelessly help to promote change that will ensure the future of indigenous children is far better than their ancestors.
Liar
Good hostIng! Respectful, informed, gracious!
God bless Buffy Sainti Marie.
A great mind
A beautiful woman
A beautiful soul.
And a LIAR
An impressive liar.
Bluffy
A gifted liar.
It's not a lie, if she believes it.
So the adoption records do exist? That would solve everything. Had she requested to view them?
Buffy St Marie invented the concept of Native American genocide.
The gall.
Both great people. Tom Power was a lovely interviewer with such empathy and knowledge and Buffy St Marie is truly wonderful.
Unfortunately, a year ago, Tom Power directed his empathy to the wrong person. Easy to say, in hindsight, I know.
What an absolute legend. A true original.
Harold Leventhal was an Angel
She is a lovely lady. Met her briefly when working on a festival in Lincoln UK run by Freddie Bannister.
She's a teacher, huh? Teach ya how to set up a con and make millions off it over the course of decades. Sounds like a good gig if you're a conscious-less narcissist.
Now we have no idea if she is or was ever telling the truth. Sad
She can't be 81!
She was adopted in the 60s scoop!
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Fraud.
MY HERO!!!!!!!!
Only two voices: Mercedes Sosa in South America and Buffy Sainte-Marie in North America! ❤
Hmmm🤔
Shes a pretendian
This was beautiful
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You can see the lies written all over her face.
HERE IS ANOTHER VERSION with new and different details some like :the only Indigenous guy was the post man" last time, l noticed this guy has asked for a name & she had it, at the ready but then tags on the vagueness AGAIN with "well we don't know all those records are sealed" she mentions being busted by the Toronto Star for going to the Pow Pow where she meets --GET THIS-- her POSSIBLE REAL PARENTS from the reserve she was born at, but her adoptive mother is also part native but no one ever talked about it: believable?
If I was hearing this without my "Buffy is an ICON of Canada" conditioning, I'd be so confused as the story is all over the place. I tell ya YOU build the bomb that blows up your OWN life & if your life STORY a complete construct🎆🪪🇨🇦She claimed in another book she would "visit her parents in Saskatchewan to TEACH (not learn) CREE to native kids behind her fathers house" ?🤢. She always saying something happened then right after "but I never knew FOR SURE at the time" so all these escape doors you know for deniability if questioned for too much details. She's clearly sharp and has a good memory, and it still isn't as good as the truth would be. The best liars always have total bona fide details weaved in with the vague and the laughably outrageous. I wonder if she WAS blacklisted in the early 70s when Arlo, Country Joe Joan Baez & the rest weren't. Her other blood family were threatened and got ZERO acknowledgement for the happy middle class childhood she had growing up: white & entitled & sent to university to take on the world. They raised a Superstar, a good songwriter and someone who felt she had to be a native to be unique. They raised a liar who insults real victims of the Scoop policies, victims of residential schools, and sexual & physical abuse. When you look at it all dispassionately, its all so obvious. Saying AFTER HER mum died that she was half Cree or Mik'maq
Then its "she hsd an affair'
It was likely because she looks SO much like her mum. So mom had to be unwed mother who gave birth in Saskatchewan? Then she WASN'T adopted??? This is literally what she has said. It's an insult to our intelligence. When something can be easily checked as fact, often it NEVER is because we assume NO ONE WOULD LIE ABOUT SOMETHING SO BASIC
BIRTHPLACE, Military service , dropping out of Harvard, being adopted. We called her an icon in Canada. She's not even Canadian! Likely saved millions in tax 😂 I dunno . But that is why we have the word Iconoclast . Our need to worship is one of our worst habits. Im glad I didn't.
I have caught all of these details too. It’s fascinating and horrible that she has continued these crazy stories for decades!!!
Recently got into her music and hearing about her life and courier is so cool, she is a true icon!
Buffy (Beverly) is a liar. #NotCanadian #NotIndigenous
Mr Bernard is legit and his method works like magic I keep on earning every single week with his new strategy
Wow I' m just shock someone mentioned expert Mr Bernard I thought I'm the only one trading with him
he changed me recover all l lost trying to trade myself
He success story is everywhere
Who's this professional everyone is talking about I always see he post on top comment on every TH-cam video I watched
I think I'm interested how can I get in touch with Mr Bernard
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81??!!!! She barely looks 60...
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