She marketed herself as a Cree woman from SK her entire career. This is not true . . . and she knew it. End of story for me. The music stands . . . but it will never be the same.
But... But she was on Sesame Street, and she pointed to herself and said "I'm a real Indian" So doesn't make it real if it was said on TV? Right? (LOL)
Sorry. But she lied, and the evidence is overwhelming. She knew the truth, and chose to benefit instead from a career based on pretending she was something that she was not. I'm afraid that regardless of the good she may have done and the awareness she brought to the indigenous cause, her name will now be associated with controversy and falsehoods.
@@desertarihmm great talent you say maybe a few songs but she was mumbling and not speaking a authentic native language in her songs so it's funny how people will defend her and the lies but want others to be honest or want others to be accountable for different issues how about thinking before you run your mouth all over these comments telling people to stop whining but your the one whining people are just expressing their thoughts on the issue 😂🎉
What upsets me the most about this whole situation is that there must have been something in her that thought she could do better than a real Aboriginal person. So she went for it. There's a lot of hidden narcissism in her. Her mockery is demonic in nature. To fool and take advantage of the First Nations for 50 years is cruel. As if the Native American Nations haven't suffered enough injustice and lies for the past 500 years. No one is disputing her talent as a songwriter. But did she have to pretend to be an Indigenous person? She could have always been herself and still help the Native Nations without having to pretend to be one of them. There's something so dark about that. She shone a false light for decades. Similar to the story of Lucifer. I know she helped many Native people but at what cost? Being "nice" is not the same as being a good person. Not only does my heart break for the Native Nations that believe in her, but also for her Italian/English American real family. 💔
I think that was extremely well said, thank you. I now see her as an egotistical, delusional old woman, with a very busy brain.( What I call a busy brain, is actually the lying body language points you made, right on.) Shame on her for being too weak to come clean, at 80 years old ! (I'm 73)
@@rosemarywallace5656 You guys are lunatic slanderers and all these hateful comments are very ugly. You all sound like vultures putting down someone much greater than you will all ever be. 🐢
I think the good deeds that she did for native people were done to keep suspicion about her at bay. It would be hard to question someone even if you had the slightest doubt when they’re setting up scholarships, etc. She did these things while at the same time she stole awards in music over and over again to further her own career. Yes I am sure she is a narcissist. It’s interesting watching her earlier interviews with hindsight. She manages to giggle and be glib while at the same time slagging off almost every other musician including Pete Seeger.
@@lindajones8101 yes you are so right. Her good deeds towards the Native Nations were probably deeds to cover herself up at all angles. I believe she was strategically managed well through this whole lie for 50 years. I don't think she's necessarily bright enough to pull this off for so long on her own. I'm sure she had plenty of high level management behind her supporting her lies so they could all make money off this mockery. And let's not forget that each award she won, she had to apply for to begin with, and she also received money and grants from these awards that should've gone to indigenous artists. Now she's living in Hawaii in her fancy house and she's lived there for a while now. Living like a star. This story is so typical actually. She's part of that whole Hollywood elite probably. My heart goes out to all the people that believed her BS. It's all so sad. And now looking back at her old interview footage back in the 70s, the whole thing seems ever more dark than ever. Especially her appearance in sesame street and her silly foolish disco song where she's wearing feathers and doing weird poses while dancing. It now all becomes so ridiculous and so disrespectful. I cannot even fathom the shock people must feel from all this.
Until I saw The Fifth Estate report I was hoping there was something to explain this. There is not and sadly she is a liar and a fraud and she has hurt several indigenous nations. She needs to apologize and make amends to those peoples.
There was nothing in that report that definitively shows she was not told what she says she was told by her mother. There is no proof that she was not sincerely relating her story according to how she was understanding it
@@ainemilliken-partridge9192 they hurt her, that's why after she left for college, she didn't go back. She always said her father and his side of the family were abusive. There is nothing, no proof to show what she was or was not told by her mother. There is nothing to prove she was not sincere in telling the story of herself as she understood it.
@@bevmacdonald9008 If she was "born on the wrong side of the blanket", as she says her mom said, it would mean that her mom had an affair from which Buffy was born - NOT that she was adopted by them, which is the lie Buffy still gives. Her story is unsupportable - TOTALLY. Her likely BS story about what her mom supposedly said was a good try, but it doesn't hold up. The birth certificate puts that to rest. There is also ZERO evidence whatsoever about her sexual abuse claims. The probability of her being a selfish psycho is EXTREMELY high. You want things to be "definitive". Good luck with that in just about anything historical. She can make up all sorts of BS lies even if she got a DNA test that proved she is zero indigenous. She made a great story. So did J.K. Rowling. But one of them made fame and fortune legitimately. Hint: It wasn't Buffy!
I am an Indigenous woman that wants her to return her awards and pay for her atrocious behavior! And, I want justice for her real white mother. The way Bluffy made her suffer is NOT Indigenous.
Only you don't know if she is indigenous or not. Do you think you can always trust the conclusions made concerning us in this society that invaded ? I have family that is Miccosukee.. I know when I see my relatives .. and even if she isn't biologically indigenous, she must be one of those ond in a million who looks like my relatives. In any case..to me she has done great things for the people..she has been one of the few in the long line of the few since Jay Silverheels or further back who we can look on the screen and identify with..if she isn't American Indian then she still is good in my eyes..and I think she never has intended for hurt anyone..never lied..she may have been wrong ( if that's the case ) only she thought it was true therefore it can't be a lie..I only have love for her. Keep well
@@creaturecaldwell9858um, both her niece AND son have taken DNA tests- no indigenous blood in them, they’re Italian anericans. And if she was “adopted”, HOW does her son’s DNA match her niece, who is her siblings child, who then also matches the grandparents and the rest of the family ? DNA doesn’t lie- people do. And Buffy did. Sorry she had you fooled so badly but it’s been proven backwards and forwards. And so has the fact that she knowingly and deliberately made up these lies while threatening anyone along the way with ruining their lives with even MORE lies. She’s JUST a musician, she’s not some super important person in the scheme of things and it’s our fault, societies, for mooning over celebrities as if they’re special somehow. The arts are important yes but let’s be real- it’s not as if she’s a ground breaking scientist, a charitable philanthropist whose changed lives, she hasn’t cured cancer or changed laws for the better or done really anything that’s benefited society as a whole other than write some songs people enjoy. Those awards should’ve gone to someone else,OP is right about that, but not only because she lied but because being a celebrity singer/songwriter means absolutely nothing and shouldn’t be treated the way it is over much more important things.
Dear friends in music, you MUST see a short film I just posted. It's called: "Buffy Sainte-Marie: The lie that was never told. A film by Frank Montoya." You will be blown away. See you at: _The Acoustic Rabbit Hole_
Denial is one of the stages of grief. Sometimes when someone decieves us our immediate reaction is to not believe that person was capable of doing it to us. The doc was pretty maticulous and thorough and she knew this was coming for months yet only addressed it the days before the doc aired. She's had a hell of a career and did a lot of good but it appears she also had us all fooled.
Maybe also railroaded by quasi-gangsters who would profit from her financial success on stage. The stakes were so high they justified using all possible means. Once the story crystalized and held water, BSM was the one left having to own it, and undoing it at that stage would have been devastating. She can't be the only one with a romanticized/fabricated background. The trouble with this one is its particularly scandalous nature.
@@lindajones8101 My dad had severe arthritis, he also had some "good pills" and trusty old fashioned weed :) so he could get out and do things, look at Willie Nelson
She toned done her dark skin for the podcast. If you watch her interviews through the years, especially her biography, she caked on the dark make up and fresh black hair dye. The lady has lied for over 60 years.
Hillarious, that this "Hollywood" makeup job, fooled everyone. I wonder if she bulk ordered dark makeup. I wonder if the postman ever got suspicious, when boxes of Maybeline were being delivered to her house? Geez, that's the third, 20 pound box this year.....
That's what I call an Academy Award winning performance. To do that, I think that she had to convince herself that she was, in some sense, Native American. It's kind of like what Trump did with the election results. He didn't like them so he did this kind of self delusion exercise, where he convinced himself to some degree. I suspect that, to pull off a 60 year false thing, she had to convince herself.
She also got progressively darker during the 1970s. That's wearing Native face. What's truly disgusting Beverly jumped on the college student Native American advocacy that was all the rage during the 1960s & 1970s. Claiming to be Native American guarantee sell out shows at college campuses & folk singing venues across America. Beverly St.Marie is a vicious pathological liar & fraud.
Yes that’s the only thing that will tell the truth! Why would she not volunteer to take a DNA test,and if she’s telling the truth,what is she worried about ?
@@desertari I was thinking the same thing, too. Everyone keeps ignoring the fact this is the entertainment industry. She played it like everyone else. In the end she lost her soul, but at least she isn't part the the human sacrafice and drinkin' adreeno-chrome crowd. Also, consider that her childhood was coming out of the 1940's, still trying to re-build after the Great Depression. Her folk-music career started in the 60's in what was a male-dominated music and media industry. Still is pretty much. // But anyway, Buffy still played her cards and created a state persona. Of course it was wrong to claim a minority culture, a sort of "singing red-face," minstrel of the "oppressed." But relative to the entertainment industry, we must keep in mind there is STILL a difference between secular music and the scared. Is not folk music closer to the spiritual side? Desertari, i'm a filmmaker. You should totally see my recent short film: Buffy Sainte-Marie: The lie that was never told. You'll find it on my main channel, _The Acoustic Rabbit Hole,_ if you want to take a peek!
at 9:45 in the interview you can see from her body language, the moment the lies begin. She touches her nose, looks to the side, shakes her head, blinks rapidly and begins to talk very quickly while talking about "not knowing" her identity.. she does the exact same mannerisms in the video where she claims to have been on the "wrong side of the blanket", it's what I've noticed she does in these sort of interviews when she speaks of things that did not occur.
Very interesting. I have learned that some narcissists show an internal anxiety when they can’t figure out how to look and what to say by blinking. I think I’ve heard of that touching of the nose and also playing with the hair. We are covering this case of suspected narcissism with HG Tudor on TH-cam.
HG Tudor simply glorified her narcissistic behaviour by reciting her career achievements and it was a waste of time. He ended with ,she lied. I wouldn’t be surprised if he got a kick out of her deceit.
She signed her marriage license with the same info as her birth certificate. Sorry Terry, I get that you're devastated. Great songwriters can be great liars, too.
Can't deny a birth certificate! Why the need to lie? Beverly/Buffy can support Indigenous people everywhere without lying. Why not be proud of who you are Buffy - a white, American with Italian/English roots. Canadian fan since I was 16 in '66. Hard to listen to her now.
Many birth certificates were made up for Indigenous adoptees because their parents didn't want their child to be discriminated for being indigenous. That was the conservative attitude during the 1950s. Her birth certificate could have been bogus and signed by a physician to support the parents who adopted children. I can't believe that so many people take the word of the CBC documentarians. Somebody had an agenda to bring her down. I will always appreciated and support Buffy for all of the positive things she has done for humanity. Too many mean spirited people are so quick to judge. Let it go and appreciate her for her brilliance.
@@sr2291I take it you have yet to view the expose. Adoptive birth certificates are not signed by the physician attending the birth as hers was, nor are they numbered as hers was. She is a fraud.
@BasedRangerGal Mine is both signed by the physician and numbered. It is just a regular birth certificate with the parents' names and info replaced with the adoptive parents' names and info. My adopted mother even attested that she gave birth to a live baby. You have no idea what you are talking about.
This could be turned around if Buffy did one last tour. The "Beverly Jean Santamaria Truth and Reconciliation Tour". At each event she would burn up one of her awards and perform a new folk song about false identity.
There is nothing false about her identity. It is your loss that do not know her now and never will. It is her gain that cheap shots over the internet far away are all you have. Get a life. I feel sorry for you, but not much. Abdool, you should get together with Dimsarge...over a few more bottles. Just get a designated driver.
If she just came out and told the truth it would set her free . She has made enough money . She can still live what is left of it in comfort without propagating this lie .
@@desertari I am freer than the air ! I live in the truth of who I am without claiming to be anything else for profit . Now the real question is , are you free ??
Oh goodie- glad to know you're free. Now find your own special talent and do something with it instead of yapping at the heels of a musical giant.@@ThatBeeyatch
What really shows me Bluffy's true colours is her horrific treatment of her brother, threatening him with lawsuits and a smear campaign for telling the truth about her identity--and right befiore she appeared on Sesame Street! 😢. As an actual Sixties Scoop survivor who watched her on that show as a child and saw her as a role model, I feel angry and betrayed by Bluffy's charade. In hindsight I can see now her supreme confidence and creative output is totally inconsistent with the lifelong trauma, CPTSD and identity crisis that accompanies being stolen from one's Indigenous family. Seeing her now just makes me cringe.
(Swedish, so never mind the spelling) Your words really resonated with me, and your conclusion regarding the nonindiginous/privilliged confidence in taking on the world as she did, falsly presenting herself as Native - which I believe also stems directly from pure narcissism. Narcissist "super power" if you will. It takes a very detached individual to keep such a fraud going over half a century, while creating and upholding all those relations. They mimic "real people" while lacking that human core where Conscience resides. In its place - a dark void. And THAT'S fundamentally scary. I acknowledge the profound pain and sense of betrayal, no, the ACTUAL betrayal, and what it does to the native collective and individually, with regards to the issue of trust, identity and memory. You all did NOT deserve this! 💛 (Also it's obvious she did those statements/adjusted the narrative and retired from performing knowing very well what was coming and when, after a year of professional research and formal inquiries from CBC. As obvious now as all that self tanning cream and redish foundation)
You should see her in earlier interviews before she was exposed. I have never heard someone giggle so much and be so glib. In hindsight, I can now see that an indigenous person could never act that way, if they had suffered; and someone who had suffered from sexual abuse, could never throw out lines such as “oh ,the house and the neighbourhood was full of paedophiles”.
I have been a friend of many indigenous people over the years. They say it doesn't matter as long as Bluffy comes forward and tells the truth. A simple DNA test would prove it all, so why is that not done.
The fact that she signed her name to a marriage certificate listing where she was born, her birthdate, etc. proves she knew all along exactly who she was.
Her basic focus is always about travelling and "I'm so busy", and no one knows who i am or how talented I am, this is the common theme for over 65 years. blah blah. We never get the authentic analysis or story that regular people talk about. No basic thoughts on world events, personal connections with family, whatever etc.
Rare do indigenous people play the personal victim card like Buffy has. This alone has been a disservice to our indigenous communities, and perhaps the most disturbing effect she has had on those communities, as well as the perspective by others of them.
I would have liked to hear Robbie Robertson's take on this, but he's gone. A true indigenous Canadian. Buffy needs to apologize to Kashtin, who could have exceeded her, but she has always been untouchable. The govt revoked the order of Canada from Steve Fonyo and he died in shame. The damage she has done is immense.
Robertson was in on it. He knew ... many of the musicians knew including Mitchell Dylan especially Baez. And Robertson was pure evil. Just ask me.,Good riddance to bad rubbish
I was reading just today about the Canadian indigenous musician who was up for the Juno on one of the mini mini years that Buffy won the award. He talks about how perhaps he could’ve won that award and gone touring and perhaps could’ve had a decent career in music. But the fraudster seven times.
My first emotion is profound disappointment, as an Indigenous person. I've followed her career for my entire life, from childhood to a senior citizen. I will remember all the good that Buffy has done for Canada's Indigenous people, but not this latest revelation.
I agree. I first knew about her because of the song 'Qu'appelle Valley Saskatchewan", which aired regularly on the CBC radio in Manitoba. It sends chills down someone's spine. This led me to look up that name, a few years back. The story about being from Saskatchewan made sense. I simply noticed she had been banned from the US, which can be interpreted as a badge of honor, the battle scar of a courageous resistance figher. I still enjoy listening to this great song, but the sight of an imposter disguised as the stereotype of an Indigenous person bothers me. The words "You can travel all alone, or you can come along with me" resonate differently now. It will take a while for this to pass.
Does anybody remember Grey Owl? The Brit who made a long career from claiming to be a Saskatchewan aboriginal...He was consulted and spoke to kings and Queens of Europe, Presidents and Parliaments...On the radio, newspapers and books (1910s thru 1920s) he was well respected and had a great fandom...Proved to be a fraud later.
She built her career and life on a foundation of lies. A sad truth for her and Canadian music fans. I can't begin to imagine the psychological implications of perpetuating such a massive public deception for 60+ years... Maybe she's come to believe her own story over the years...
@@vpcproduction7070 Well, for a start: (1) Indigenous artists she stole awards and gov't grants from, (2) the children who grew up watching her on Sesame Street and perceiving her as an Indigenous role model, (3) actual sixties scoop victims, (4) the entire country of Canada (we gave her the Order of Canada), (5) her family (who she threatened with lawsuits), (6) her brother (who she threatened to falsely accuse of being a child molester), (7) every person who bought one of her records under false pretences...
@@mayloo2137 i do and its not a big story, i suggest you talk to some indigenous people and ask how they feel about it as opposed by cultural appropriation
Cher and Rita Coolidge are both guilty of the same thing with stories and interviews that do not add up. Rita said she lived in the reservation in Tennessee and there is no Rez there! Cher claimed 1/4 Cherokee but her mom would’ve had to be half Cherokee for that to be possible. We know her mom was lilly white and Cherokee Nation has no records of her family. Rita went to school with Chad Smith who became chief. That’s how she got to sing in a CD with the Cherokee Children’s Choir. Another is Douglas Bluefeather of Ohio. Mary Youngblood was adopted by a white family too.
Yes I remember cher did the same thing when her hit halfbreed come out, her mom is white who was said to be half , but her dad was Ramin? If I'm spelling that right? She should have went with her dad's side to this, sad, 😢
"Crying Wind" Linda Stafford is another one. She came and spoke at my mother's church and I read her first book; there was always something "off" about her too, but I never knew her personally. It must be hard for people like the man interviewing her here. . . he was/is her friend. 😢
The truth always rises to the surface eventually- unfortunately the reality is Buffy could not have gotten away with the lies all these years without people who for $$ went along with the lies -lawyers and managers in the industry and to fans who never questioned her - I’ve never thought of her as indigenous from the beginning and especially when she landed her Sesame Street gig - never was interested in going to her concerts -
Yes, I am 71 and from her era. But I never liked her voice so the only song I have remembered is Universal Soldier. I liked that song, especially when it was sung by other people with better voices. I think that’s why I never twigged to what she might be because I didn’t follow her. As a Canadian, I do remember that we all were thrilled that another so-called Canadian was a celebrity. But I still never followed her. And I never watched Sesame Street. About three years ago a person much younger than me introduced me to one of her songs that was covered by Eva Cassidy. I really liked it and I do like Bluffy’s version. It’s called Tall Trees In Georgia.
There were most definitely agents, managers, lawyers, etc. with a lot of interest in keeping and promoting her "American Indian folk singer" image. I'm sure in the beginning she was pushed along by powerful people.
I must admit I found this whole controversy on accident. I’ve never heard of Buffy St Marie so I found this to be very interesting. I watched the CBC documentary and it’s quite damning and factual. It’s hard to believe that she did not know WHO she really was. I think she told the lie for so long to so many that she blurred the lines of reality in her own mind The treatment she showed her family was outrageous, she disowned them and threatened them criminally and civilly. But at the end of the day, she took opportunities away from REAL BIOLOGICAL Indigenous people who might have won (and deserved) all those awards she falsely received. And the only thing I keep asking myself is WHY did she do it?
Why? I’m quite sure she is a narcissist. Would love to know what the relationship is really like between her and her son. Narcissists have no emotional empathy for anyone. I think she did all her good deeds, because that helps blind people to what you might really be.
@@user-br2bf5co2c - I’m sure she is a very talented artist, and I’m sure she’s a tireless advocate for Indigenous people. But that’s not the issue that surrounds the whole controversy is it? Shes NOT who she claims to be, and she knew it yet chose to lie and take accolades from those she proclaimed to care about. Someone in the documentary said, she didn’t have to lie about herself and she still could have taken up the cause for Indigenous people and she still would have been held in high esteem. It’s a shame. (But her treatment towards her family was positively obscene, truly repugnant)
I think she knew what reality was all along. Interesting to see that once her son took a DNA test and proved that he was DNA-related to her Italian family (would have no relation if she had been adopted), she started the public story that she AND HER SISTER were snatched away from the tribe in Canada and adopted out. She also jumped on the "me-too" bandwagon and declared herself a survivor of sexual abuse, but only when it gained her some social media sympathy and a possible explanation for the truth her brother had told before he died. Her changing stories through the years show a calculated attempt to cover up her lies. The fact that she eventually suggested her own MOTHER may have had an extramarital affair with an indigenous man-- THAT IS HORRID. She has thrown everyone around her under the bus of her own deceitful career: her own family, indigenous artists who deserved the awards she got, sexual abuse survivors-- it goes on and on. The good she did can NOT cover up the bad she did.
@@desertari.. overthinking this?.. Even now , the FDA has to take down the comments about Ivermectin and horsey mockings , as part of a law suit as they were lying and this cheap drug ,could have saved thousands of lives. We are being censored in Canada now please share Commissioners Report released in Ottawa #nationalcitizensinquiry
I’ve concluded that the true and factual story of Beverley Santamaria is that she was born to middle class Italian / English parents in a two by four New England town and she reinvented herself by hitching her folk song career to quite a cash Cow by claiming Indigenous heritage. In 1966 the Chicago Tribune reported that Buffy Sainte Marie was making $2,000 a performance, while other common-or-garden Folk singers were paid $50.00 for three hours! How many retired indigenous folk singers are living in Hawaii?
It's not only sad but embarrassing to watch her skirting around the fact that she has lied about her indigeneity. Why is she so ashamed of being of Italian/English descent?? Why did she threaten her brother with another lie if he continued to tell people she was not an indigenous person and had not been adopted?? She should return all the awards and honors meant for First Nation individuals and apologize, apologize, apologize for lying for over 60 years!! The gentleman looks uneasy interviewing his longtime friend.
No. All those worrying about her "Canadian passport" ... she does not live in the harsh wilderness/plains of Saskatchewan. She lives in the endless paradise of Hawaii and has for almost forever. Looking back, she is sort of a Village People caricature of "Native Indian" ... Sucks because SHE IS TALENTED, and I enjoy her performances! Plus, we, as culture, are forced to lie about so many obvious truths.
She never got a passport. She never applied for Canadian citizenship. In hindsight I'm sure she never applied for either because her lawyers and Buffy knew the lie would be exposed.
The '60's was a completely different world than the world is today! There were many exciting, creative ideas that many people used as gimmicks, to further their careers, blind to ANY possible repercussions. Now days, there are many legal and ethical pitfalls that have taken center stage as major taboos, that can seriously impact, damage and impede someone's livelihood, given the perpetual, menacing threat of rampant cancel culture in our present day society! Perhaps, lots of up and coming aspiring people, from 60:years ago, did not have the foresight to see the possibility of how these creative choices, amid changing ideas and ways of living, could, eventually, severely come back to haunt them?! My question would be: Was it just the '60's mentality of promoting oneself that morphed into a phenomenon, unto itself; OR was this decision to conceal her true origins TRAUMA BASED, due to an event that happened to her, rooted in childhood, perhaps suffering at the hands of a family member, friend or someone in her original community?! I have seen symptoms of CPTSD manifest in the survivor as a rejection of many or even ALL aspects, (beliefs, names, national origins, customs, etc.), pertaining to the family and/or community of origin!
@@taramoonshadow7260 cancel culture, 60’s, creativity…you make a few very thoughtful points. Maybe there was trauma? You would think that she would have come clean at some point. I was a long time admirer…mostly I feel bad for First Nations people.
This didn't age well. Her psycopathy is terrifying. She is an absolute and unwavering psychopath, especially seeing as she was more than ready to lie about sexual abuse in the wink of an eye. Compete and evil.
Get a life and learn about a brilliant woman who has lifted so many others up. She is not a horrible person. I doubt if you now anything about her and her incredible catalogue of life affirming songs.
Doesn't Buffy remember being graduating from Wakefield High School in 1958? She doesn't remember being in the Glee Club, or the Pep Club, or her desire to be an airline stewardess? Has she no memory of the school dances, football games, hanging around with a bunch of friends after school, doing homework, and all the other things that typical Massachusetts students did?
🔥 BREAKING NEWS: Buffy Sainte Marie has just released a statement confirming that she IS 💯% INDIAN. She has revealed she is a lifelong Hindu and was raised in New Delhi, India 🇮🇳
She is an Indian Yogi, can levitate and walk through walls. She doesn’t know anything about her background, but is certain that she’s adopted by monkeys in Alaska.
TDM - rockin it as usually, just like back in Regina. Have been a fan for 60 years! I'm a bit disappointed about the misleading title. I acknowledge she is a great many things. Sadly, the truth about her origins has changed many times over the years. I guess we'll leave it to the CBC to talk about the elephant in the room.
What elephant. CBC did something they hardly ever do. Journalistic work. The birth certificate is authentic. And Buffy NEVER applied for Canadian citizenship or a Canadian passport. I think her lawyers knew the truth would come out if she did attempt to get citizenship. Either way very sad and messed up.
I completely understand the fade and die thing, Terry; I am of the exact same mindset. It is great to hear Buffy speak of her career and creativity. I really respect her embracing the culture of the family who adopted her and doing much to hold up Indigenous artists. I'm just so sorry that she has been less than transparent about her real heritage because the facts that the CBC unearthed are the facts. Maybe Buffy has convinced herself that she is indigenous, but th truth is that she is not. It is a sad thing for everyone involved. I especially feel sorry for the people who feel they have been betrayed by her. I can't speak to how they feek, but I feel personally hurt by her passing as Canadian.
This is Louis Buffy Parry here detailing the circumstances of my names "Buffy" and "Buff" and how proud I am to share this name with a goddess, Buffy Sainte-Marie. She is my female doppelganger, except I can't sing---but my poetry and lyrics can. My maternal grandfather Louis Koers named me Buffalo the day I was born. My Buffy and Buff names were subsequently born out of this Buffalo moniker. When I was around 11 or 12 years old I experienced Buffy Sainte-Marie for the first time when I watched her perform with the mouth bow on a TV program. Given that I was named Buffy by my mother, a mother whose name was Marie, it was to watch someone perform as she could, someone who had my and my mother's names, that was beyond coincidence and instead, was fully transcendent. And I am convinced that my lifeline paralleling hers is also not coincidental. In fact, she has lived everywhere I have lived, starting in the Qu'Appelle Valley of Saskatchewan and moving on to Hawai'i where she lived and where I was stationed in the U.S. Air Force, in 1968-69. When I started the famous Honolulu Crossroads Sanctuary for U.S. soldiers our theme song was Buffy Sainte-Marie's "Universal Soldier".
"Pretendian" is a silly word, invented by sillier people whose only religion is political correctness. By the way, your PM is a "pretendian"- pretends to be a grown up man but is a silly, not very smart, boy. @@mayloo2137
This interview with Terry David Mulligan is the last big interview she gave before the news broke - and she knew the news was going to break. It's why she's suddenly talking about "the urban myths" about her origin story. Does Buffy think "urban myths" are lies you tell about yourself for 60+ years???
We are not in grade school where simply mimicing what another has said is an intelligent response. Answer my question and then I'll answer yours. @@katkatkata3
This is just plain sad. Talk of personal truth and lived experience is a smokescreen. Her truth is that she misrepresented herself for many years. I don't doubt she's done some good, but that false identity seems to have been the cornerstone of her career.
@@desertariWow, you’re certainly trying hard in the comments to protect her aren’t you? You keep saying the same thing in her defence. It’s not about her talent. It’s about her lies of her identity. Her lies overshadow her talent by such a large magnitude that you continuing to say the same thing in her defence casts suspicion on you and your motives.
Performers or artists are about the work they do- the product. That's it. All the rest is window-dressing. Your fascination with her personal life casts suspicions on what you're lacking in your own spiritual life. @@CanadianDrifter777
A day, A week, A month, whatever. At some point BSM will come to the realization that there is no getting around the CBC hit-piece. She will either have to address the CBC in an open forum or accept that there may always be an asterisk beside her awards. As an old friend, offer her that venue. Y/N? And, hey, hey, have you heard the news.. There's Good Rocking At Midnight!
I don' t think she was lying. Fake birth certificates were often filled out in Boston for adoptive parents with their names inserted in 1941 when Buffy was born. On the fifth estate so- called expose a picture was shown of what looked like her mother as a young girl and he said it was Buffy but it obviously looked nothing like her. It looked like her mother as a young girl. I think thats who it was. Yes she had a successful career in music. More power to her. I think if they ever do get her DNA (and I hope they don't because the results. if accurate and not tampered with, at this point would probably reveal the reason she doesn't look much like the rest of her family) or could be bought by the US government who damned her for "Universal Soldier" and if they still have Leonard Peltier who I believe to be innocent, what would they do to her, given the chance? It would be a grave mistake for her to take a DNA test now not because it would tell the truth, but because the results could be tampered with. The US government admits that it lies and attacks their own people. They call them black flag attacks. There have been many. I have always felt a lot of pain when the US used Native American warriors this way. Canada did too. They may have volunteered , because they answered that call when needed and I honor their sevice in defense of the land we share, but when it comes to murder for goods and land and money and power, well .... Buffy was right. I trust her over those who continually tear her down. Yes I do understand the anger, but if you feel that way its because you were manipulated by a supposed "documentary" video. It happens all the time. I dont blame you. I just ask you to really give some serious thought to all this with a clear mind and heart. Clear minds and hearts are, sadly, in short supply these days. 💧💜
I hope all the awards are returned. She made also a ton of money by deliberate deceiving everyone. Just appalling that she is doubling down. Cant imagine how her parents must have felt when she said she didn't know who her family really was. What a croc.
There is no chance she didnt know that she had no NA ancestry and that she'd not been adopted. Looking at old photos of her she appears to have darkened her skin or at least her face as well thru the yrs.
Well Mr David Mulligan, it is my understanding that the impetus for the CBC doc came from young indigenous journalists who saw the PBS doc. It’s sad, but I think SM could stop a lot of the outpouring of sadness and anger if she opened up about why she manufactured her persona.
@@desertari no, she gave her gift under false pretenses, and those pretenses may have helped her career. Even her so-called adoption was probably received under false pretenses. There's no reason to reward that.
Seems Buffy has maliciously interfered with Canadian Indian employment opportunities. In 1975, her lawyers wrote to her brother, Alan Sainte-Marie and said "You have perhaps defamed Buffy and maliciously interfered with her employment opportunities". This was in response to Allan's meeting with a news reporter about her regular middle class upbringing in America.
If I remember correctly, it was her uncle who went to the local press in Massachusetts and told them she was making stuff up. I believe years later her brother who met her and perhaps the Sesame Street producer on an airplane flight (where everything was cordial) got a phone call a day or so later from the producer who asked him if he was indigenous because he was light haired and had light coloured eyes. I figured that the PBS producer was wondering about Bluffy and contacted the brother. Then I figure the producer must’ve asked Bluffy something about this. Naturally, she got shit-scared, and sent off a letter, threatening the brother to shut up.
Her sister posted her DNA results on her FB page a few years ago and it showed Native American ancestry. Therefore, Buffy did not have to come up with a wild adoption story. She could have just said she had NA ancestry and left it at that.
It kind of looks like Buffy started with the story as a gimmick on the folk circuit and then came to believe her own fiction. I really wish Robbie Robertson was still here to comment. He downplayed his own Canadian Indigenous heritage ( his mom's side ) until he had already achieved success and fame in the show biz industry. It's never been something that HELPED your career, not until Buffy took the fantasy of First People's history and spun it into a web of who-knows-what. At least some became interested enough to help. The 60s scoop was unknown to most until recent years. Even though she wasn't scooped, personally, it did draw attention to the genocide. Peace.
This is click bait. Nowhere in this intereview did they get in depth about the controversy of her not being Native American. This was a softball interview, done by an interviewer who is an adoring fan. No doubt he's from that generation of "folkies" who look to entertainiers for truths, honesty, integrity and championing of causes. The trouble with this view is that the people who where singing protest songs, etc. during that time period were all de facto business people, in disguise. They all needed to have a schtick to sell to the public so that they could generate concert and record sales. Buffy, in this interview, displayed her propensity for exaggeration. She said that they didn't even have words for high tech in the 80s, and music. That is not true. Electronic synthesisers, MIDI and other stuff had been out, and modem based communications were out, and so was stuff like Quntum link (later to be called America Online.) She claims that it was like the primative age and that she was involved. This just sounds like a good sized exaggeration. She has a propensity for drama, and that commonly involves exaggeration. She needed a schtick to sell her music, and through her dramatic personality, created the Native American heritage thing, it appears. The folkie audience loved it. It gave them a "cause" which really appreciated (particularly the easily guilted white suburban kids.) She got her schtick and her podium, and that was a good recipe for selling concert tickets and records. Her personality is self indulgent, but she's smart enough to use causes, in combination with her attention need, so as to do something positive. She is an entertainer with a flair for drama, and capitalized on something that resonated with young people, at the time. Adding to this the Native Americans got a de facto pulbic relations agent with her presentations. Even if she was faking being Native American, that didn't negate that fact that the Native Americans were getting publicity boost. Of course they are going to go along with her, even when she's outed for not being Native American. If she truly were Native American, a simple DNA test would reveal that. And, if she were truly Native American, she'd be eager to get a DNA test, to put all of this controversy to rest. She's not doing that DNA test, as far as I know. You have to ask yourself: Why not ? She could easily avoid any future bad publicity if she'd just take the DNA test and prove her claim, if she'd not lying. If she's lying she's going to avoid the DNA test.
This interview was from before the truth was exposed, but he does give her a pass or benefit of the doubt which first of all is not his place and it's ungrounded, she's been criminally fraudulent.
@@lisetteenriquez-velazquez9684 OK. Then it is mostly the title of the video " Buffy Sainte-Marie Unter Attack - Listen To Buffy's Words" that is misleading. It implies that Buffy is responding to the allegations that she is not Native American.
I’m on the fence. I’m indigenous and acknowledge the importance of Buffy. The only one who can supply answers to this situation is Buffy. If she doesn’t want to clear her name with proof then people will come up with their own opinion and she will have to deal with the results of being quiet and hoping it goes away because it won’t.
She said she was. Teacher before a singer, yet in other documentaries ~ in her own words she says she left from college to New York to in coffee houses, confusing?!
And most cringe worthy of all; stated that she always spent a few hours every day while visiting her "home reserve" in Canada TEACHING younger tribal people THE CREE LANGUAGE!!?? Oh the nerve... In fantasy land that is! The order of THAT land is the one deserved
I remember her saying that in an interview, and I think she meant that she is a teacher of things about life, including indigenous rights (from the mouth of an Anglo Italian).
Lies, lies and coverup about her life! I bet she couldn't provide any "documentation" to the director of Buffy's "life story". Did the director mention the birth certificate, her marriage license (including her birth date) or that HORRIBLE blackmail HANDWRITTEN letter to her brother falsely accusing him of sexual assault/incest?!? It wasn't necessary to sell records or tickets, Buffy...you have talent. I bet Canadians are REALLY pissed off about this....not to mention the real indigenous performers.
Yes, she is talented, but her indigenous "schtik" has made her twice as popular as she would have been otherwise. I wouldn't be surprised if she's suffers from confabulation and has actually believed her own lies for the past 50+ years.
I don't care what color her skin is. I believe she only brought positive things to the tribes. I think that she drew attention to the tribes as human being and not scavengers. The Indian people need to Thank her, instead of degrading her and "OUTING" her. What are they getting out of hurting this lady? I think she is amazing and talented. If she is NOT Indian, maybe she should come forward and tell her reasons why. I choose to believe that she did this, if she is not Indian, it was only to help them, not hurt them. My God, he has blessed her with so much, look at her at 82 WOW!!! It does not appear to me that she has had any plastic surgery either. She is still of WIT and Youth!!! May God continue to bless you Buffy. I also believe if she comes out, IF SHE IS NOT INDIAN, people will understand why. They will still love her, her music and her motivations, as well. Those that wish to destroy this lovely lady, Shame to you!
Thank you. I have to go now. I am a 72 year old person of mixed racial descent ( and yes, some of my ancestors were tribal people from this side of the Atlantic) and also an adult disabled child. I have an ancient and active medicine wheel to try to protect again after having been led to leave it by a spirit bear, to learn more so I can do that more effectively, and a world full of both beauty and the stuff of nightmares that are deep in my bones and I must get back to cleaning up this horrible mess left by people who are trying to kill Great Spirit in their desparate and despicable ignorance. I will be ever grateful to Mama Mary Benson,who I refer to as the "Cherokee Rose of South Austin" who was a voting member of the Cherokee tribe for recognizing me ( her first words to me were (" I have known you a long long time" ) and sharing with me freely her knowledge and wisdom. She lives in my heart and my music. The TRUTH is of paramount importance but if you think you can get the whole of it from a dna test I believe you are wrong. Results can be faked and payoffs from the US government that requires such tests and is WORLD REKNOWN for their blatant lying and taking extreme measures to protect their own war machines and the stock market that profits so much from it are also not to be trusted. Buffy is wise not to stoop to having her Identity defined by a dna test (like some "breed" of dog) that can be faked, messed with etc. If she ever does decide to get one she should get several tests. PRIVATELY. There is NO privacy anymore on this internet and I have every reason not to trust even this "conversation" . So please excuse me now. Time to go. I do not call myself a Christian, but I love these words from a dear Jewish man fom thousands of years ago: " Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of Great Spirit." I prefer the words "Great Spirit" and include , for God is an old German exclamation for being hit on the head ( as in "Mien Gott"), or Wakentanka. If you are sincere who read this please join me in leaving this sad conversation. Too many words.
Hi, I'm an 82 year old Sicilian American artist, raised in Massachusetts in the 40's. I was not accepted by the white kids that I grew up with. My father forbid me to say I was Sicilian American, so I grew up not wanting to be White. I was cruelly treated by kids and some adults. The pain and rejection caused me to associate with non white people. I don't think anyone in these comments has experienced this. This experience has changed my life. I can relate. Whatever the truth of Buffy's life, give her the benefit of her amazing talent! Thanks for listening!
This is extremely painful to watch. knowing the truth now, and listening to her one can hear how things are dodged and twisted. And maybe a part of her at this point believes her own narrative ( although it changed so often through the years). When one has gone so deep for so long, I don't know how they can find a way out of it graciously. The power in her songs, her music still gives me chills. So much talent. But the deception and also the horrible way she treated her actual biological family, the threats if they exposed her, adds such a very dark spin on it all. I think this is going to take a long time to come to terms with. So, so sad.
As a lad growing up in in the UK during the 40s and 50s, our source of entertainment was the cinema, often with cowboy films, often featuring a white hero, protecting the white settlers, from the indigenous 'redskins', often depicted as the uncivilised savages. I took that idea at face value, and it stayed with me until the early 70s, when one evening, my wife and I went to cinema, to watch the film, 'Soldier Blue'. This was a story, set in the 19th century, depicting the US Cavalry attacking an indigenous encampment, including their women and children in appalling graphic detail. It was accompanied by the song, 'Soldier Blue', sung by Buffy Sainte-Marie, which was haunting and full of emotion. This film had a profound effect on my thinking of the subject, in the manner in which this indigenous race, was presented with admirable human values, albeit different to our own, but sustainable, generous, and deeply spiritual with a deep respect for the environment, and belief that no one person owned the land, but passed over it, leaving but the lightest touch. It was white people, who had travelled to their lands, who with the greed of some, who were the savages, who herded the indigenous peoples into reservations, treating them as lesser beings, whilst the indigenous peoples were the ones who had a more civilised outlook. As a result, America has developed into a highly materialistic part of the world, where the dollar is king, and Donald Trump thinks he is. At the time, the makers of this film were courageous in releasing it, and it was a message which needed to be told, though to this day indigenous people are still often viewed as second rate, in what was fo millenia, therr home land. For the remainder of us, there is much we would learn from them.
A Canadian passport doesn’t make someone Canadian . My brother was born in Canada and moved to the uk @ age 13 and got a passport there. He’s still Canadian . Her story is complicated and based on untruth.
that's what I want to know, there is zero info online. I can only presume she is aa Canadian citizen--she had to have moved to Canada at some point, become a "landed immigrant" and then citizen. But WHEN??
@@dimitriosotis8632 -be a permanent resident -have lived in Canada for at least 3 out of the last 5 years (1,095 days) -have filed their taxes, if they need to -pass a citizenship test -prove their language skills in English or French -take the oath of citizenship. These are new rules so they may have been different way back. I don't see any evidence she was a permanent resident in Canada. Her marriages were to Americans
Can't look ar her in the same light any longer. Also, as an aside, the product placement on her sofa behind her irked me from the get-go. Sorry, it's a ;feeling'. Muchlove to you.
Oddly, her voice and facial camera mannerisms in this interview have suddenly lost their trademark Indigenous/Native aura that her career relied upon and was built on, her voice tones and responsiveness and facial reflexes here are now suddenly those of a perky New York Italian white socialite. She now realizes that the jig is up and that the game is over.
Had to stop bc of all the obvilus bs, but around 9 min. in she pauses and twice looks down at notes w prepared statements and strategies, adjusting the narrative wich is the sole reason for this so called interview w an OLD FRIEND (openikg info). Also: The way she talks and comes across here is very unnatural and forced upbeat, non authentic and sort of scared. Knowing fully well the extent of her falsified legacy that is for ever to be exposed.
You can tell she is lying since the lies change every time she opens her mouth. She can't keep her lies straight. It's sad some people can't see through it.
So many unexpected lies,she hit the lie good when she didn't want to talk about her upbringing and really so very off 😮and she hurrying up to ask for it
Let me reiterate once again, in the 50s, and 60s Indian people were not allowed and denied participation in any movement that will inspire the younger generations. It was intentional to Psychologically attempt to strip the spiritual identity of the Indian people. I would not be surprised if she was coached to play the role, thinking at the time colonialism had everything under control. Only she knows that within herself, it was done to deceive the public that Indian people have just as much right to exposure as everyone else. She is none Indian, not saying this to offend her. She didn't take anything away from anybody.
She marketed herself as a Cree woman from SK her entire career.
This is not true . . . and she knew it.
End of story for me.
The music stands . . . but it will never be the same.
Her music, mmyeh
Actually, she marketed herself as Micmac, part-Micmac, Algonquin, and then settled on Cree.
@@lindajones8101 When she is really from the Waan'N'abe Tribe
@sharonrigs7999 Excellent. Really though...this is sad, but she brought it on herself.
Cree...and a few other tribes as well. Every other interview was a different story.
Not only is she not indigenous, she’s not not even Canadian! Her birth certificate clearly shows who her parents are and where she was born.
My adopted birth certificate looks exactly the same
But... But she was on Sesame Street, and she pointed to herself and said
"I'm a real Indian"
So doesn't make it real if it was said on TV? Right? (LOL)
Hey- bingo- ain't you smart. Can you sing the way she does? Do you know any "Frist Nations" folk who can sing like that?
Sorry. But she lied, and the evidence is overwhelming. She knew the truth, and chose to benefit instead from a career based on pretending she was something that she was not. I'm afraid that regardless of the good she may have done and the awareness she brought to the indigenous cause, her name will now be associated with controversy and falsehoods.
She would have had no career. Waitress, anything but entertainment with big money pushing her.
Her career was based on her great talent- all else was window dressing.
@@desertarihmm great talent you say maybe a few songs but she was mumbling and not speaking a authentic native language in her songs so it's funny how people will defend her and the lies but want others to be honest or want others to be accountable for different issues how about thinking before you run your mouth all over these comments telling people to stop whining but your the one whining people are just expressing their thoughts on the issue 😂🎉
What upsets me the most about this whole situation is that there must have been something in her that thought she could do better than a real Aboriginal person. So she went for it. There's a lot of hidden narcissism in her. Her mockery is demonic in nature. To fool and take advantage of the First Nations for 50 years is cruel. As if the Native American Nations haven't suffered enough injustice and lies for the past 500 years. No one is disputing her talent as a songwriter. But did she have to pretend to be an Indigenous person? She could have always been herself and still help the Native Nations without having to pretend to be one of them. There's something so dark about that. She shone a false light for decades. Similar to the story of Lucifer. I know she helped many Native people but at what cost? Being "nice" is not the same as being a good person. Not only does my heart break for the Native Nations that believe in her, but also for her Italian/English American real family. 💔
I think that was extremely well said, thank you. I now see her as an egotistical, delusional old woman, with a very busy brain.( What I call a busy brain, is actually the lying body language points you made, right on.) Shame on her for being too weak to come clean, at 80 years old ! (I'm 73)
@@rosemarywallace5656 You guys are lunatic slanderers and all these hateful comments are very ugly. You all sound like vultures putting down someone much greater than you will all ever be. 🐢
I think the good deeds that she did for native people were done to keep suspicion about her at bay. It would be hard to question someone even if you had the slightest doubt when they’re setting up scholarships, etc. She did these things while at the same time she stole awards in music over and over again to further her own career. Yes I am sure she is a narcissist. It’s interesting watching her earlier interviews with hindsight. She manages to giggle and be glib while at the same time slagging off almost every other musician including Pete Seeger.
@@lindajones8101 yes you are so right. Her good deeds towards the Native Nations were probably deeds to cover herself up at all angles. I believe she was strategically managed well through this whole lie for 50 years. I don't think she's necessarily bright enough to pull this off for so long on her own. I'm sure she had plenty of high level management behind her supporting her lies so they could all make money off this mockery. And let's not forget that each award she won, she had to apply for to begin with, and she also received money and grants from these awards that should've gone to indigenous artists. Now she's living in Hawaii in her fancy house and she's lived there for a while now. Living like a star. This story is so typical actually. She's part of that whole Hollywood elite probably. My heart goes out to all the people that believed her BS. It's all so sad. And now looking back at her old interview footage back in the 70s, the whole thing seems ever more dark than ever. Especially her appearance in sesame street and her silly foolish disco song where she's wearing feathers and doing weird poses while dancing. It now all becomes so ridiculous and so disrespectful. I cannot even fathom the shock people must feel from all this.
"Demonic" ???- Are you out of your mind??
Until I saw The Fifth Estate report I was hoping there was something to explain this. There is not and sadly she is a liar and a fraud and she has hurt several indigenous nations. She needs to apologize and make amends to those peoples.
I agree . The nerve of some people I swear . Smh
There was nothing in that report that definitively shows she was not told what she says she was told by her mother. There is no proof that she was not sincerely relating her story according to how she was understanding it
More importantly she's hurt her own family.
@@ainemilliken-partridge9192 they hurt her, that's why after she left for college, she didn't go back. She always said her father and his side of the family were abusive. There is nothing, no proof to show what she was or was not told by her mother. There is nothing to prove she was not sincere in telling the story of herself as she understood it.
@@bevmacdonald9008 If she was "born on the wrong side of the blanket", as she says her mom said, it would mean that her mom had an affair from which Buffy was born - NOT that she was adopted by them, which is the lie Buffy still gives. Her story is unsupportable - TOTALLY. Her likely BS story about what her mom supposedly said was a good try, but it doesn't hold up. The birth certificate puts that to rest. There is also ZERO evidence whatsoever about her sexual abuse claims. The probability of her being a selfish psycho is EXTREMELY high. You want things to be "definitive". Good luck with that in just about anything historical. She can make up all sorts of BS lies even if she got a DNA test that proved she is zero indigenous. She made a great story. So did J.K. Rowling. But one of them made fame and fortune legitimately. Hint: It wasn't Buffy!
Buffy talking about "truth and reconciliation" - how ironic
Nailed it
"Truth and reconciliation" is all BS anyway. She's great- that's enough.
Yep, don't let the facts get in the way of your feelings. @@desertari
She is hugely talented and that reflected well on a group who had really lost status for many years. Too bad for you.@@rosewoodsteel6656
I am an Indigenous woman that wants her to return her awards and pay for her atrocious behavior! And, I want justice for her real white mother. The way Bluffy made her suffer is NOT Indigenous.
"atrocious behaviour"??? You are out of your gourd.
Only you don't know if she is indigenous or not. Do you think you can always trust the conclusions made concerning us in this society that invaded ? I have family that is Miccosukee.. I know when I see my relatives .. and even if she isn't biologically indigenous, she must be one of those ond in a million who looks like my relatives. In any case..to me she has done great things for the people..she has been one of the few in the long line of the few since Jay Silverheels or further back who we can look on the screen and identify with..if she isn't American Indian then she still is good in my eyes..and I think she never has intended for hurt anyone..never lied..she may have been wrong ( if that's the case ) only she thought it was true therefore it can't be a lie..I only have love for her. Keep well
You are completely right- I love her too and can ascribe to ill intentions to her.@@creaturecaldwell9858
@@creaturecaldwell9858um, both her niece AND son have taken DNA tests- no indigenous blood in them, they’re Italian anericans. And if she was “adopted”, HOW does her son’s DNA match her niece, who is her siblings child, who then also matches the grandparents and the rest of the family ? DNA doesn’t lie- people do. And Buffy did.
Sorry she had you fooled so badly but it’s been proven backwards and forwards. And so has the fact that she knowingly and deliberately made up these lies while threatening anyone along the way with ruining their lives with even MORE lies. She’s JUST a musician, she’s not some super important person in the scheme of things and it’s our fault, societies, for mooning over celebrities as if they’re special somehow. The arts are important yes but let’s be real- it’s not as if she’s a ground breaking scientist, a charitable philanthropist whose changed lives, she hasn’t cured cancer or changed laws for the better or done really anything that’s benefited society as a whole other than write some songs people enjoy. Those awards should’ve gone to someone else,OP is right about that, but not only because she lied but because being a celebrity singer/songwriter means absolutely nothing and shouldn’t be treated the way it is over much more important things.
@@creaturecaldwell9858Repent and know Jesus everyone, Shalom.
She's an American-Italian.
Dear friends in music, you MUST see a short film I just posted. It's called:
"Buffy Sainte-Marie: The lie that was never told. A film by Frank Montoya."
You will be blown away.
See you at: _The Acoustic Rabbit Hole_
Denial is one of the stages of grief. Sometimes when someone decieves us our immediate reaction is to not believe that person was capable of doing it to us. The doc was pretty maticulous and thorough and she knew this was coming for months yet only addressed it the days before the doc aired. She's had a hell of a career and did a lot of good but it appears she also had us all fooled.
Maybe also railroaded by quasi-gangsters who would profit from her financial success on stage. The stakes were so high they justified using all possible means.
Once the story crystalized and held water, BSM was the one left having to own it, and undoing it at that stage would have been devastating. She can't be the only one with a romanticized/fabricated background. The trouble with this one is its particularly scandalous nature.
Yes, she knew the documentary was coming and I now wonder if that’s why she suddenly retired due to those arthritic hands!
@@lindajones8101 My dad had severe arthritis, he also had some "good pills" and trusty old fashioned weed :) so he could get out and do things, look at Willie Nelson
Fooled? How will you ever recover? she was and is magnificent!!
@@desertari Good Enough! You have been arguing with everyone who provides an opinion. Are you Buffy using another name?
She toned done her dark skin for the podcast. If you watch her interviews through the years, especially her biography, she caked on the dark make up and fresh black hair dye.
The lady has lied for over 60 years.
100%
Hillarious, that this "Hollywood" makeup job, fooled everyone. I wonder if she bulk ordered dark makeup. I wonder if the postman ever got suspicious, when boxes of Maybeline were being delivered to her house? Geez, that's the third, 20 pound box this year.....
I wondered if I was the only one who noticed that.
That's what I call an Academy Award winning performance. To do that, I think that she had to convince herself that she was, in some sense, Native American. It's kind of like what Trump did with the election results. He didn't like them so he did this kind of self delusion exercise, where he convinced himself to some degree. I suspect that, to pull off a 60 year false thing, she had to convince herself.
She also got progressively darker during the 1970s.
That's wearing Native face.
What's truly disgusting Beverly jumped on the college student Native American advocacy that was all the rage during the 1960s & 1970s.
Claiming to be Native American guarantee sell out shows at college campuses & folk singing venues across America.
Beverly St.Marie is a vicious pathological liar & fraud.
Sad part here Buffy actually believes her lies - take a DNA test and be done
I don't see her doing that. Her son may choose to, however. His life has been altered by the recent revelations, also.
It's not that she believes her lies, she is just a sociopath and cannot and will not apologize.
@@jabbermocky4520Her son already has. And her niece’s DNA matches her sons.
Yes that’s the only thing that will tell the truth! Why would she not volunteer to take a DNA test,and if she’s telling the truth,what is she worried about ?
@@hellekimery9537 she's NOT telling that truth. That's what she's worried about. Lol
She needs to come clean and return all her awards and honours
No, you need to relax and just enjoy her music- as great today as 60 years ago.
@@desertari I was thinking the same thing, too. Everyone keeps ignoring the fact this is the entertainment industry. She played it like everyone else. In the end she lost her soul, but at least she isn't part the the human sacrafice and drinkin' adreeno-chrome crowd.
Also, consider that her childhood was coming out of the 1940's, still trying to re-build after the Great Depression. Her folk-music career started in the 60's in what was a male-dominated music and media industry. Still is pretty much. // But anyway, Buffy still played her cards and created a state persona. Of course it was wrong to claim a minority culture, a sort of "singing red-face," minstrel of the "oppressed." But relative to the entertainment industry, we must keep in mind there is STILL a difference between secular music and the scared. Is not folk music closer to the spiritual side?
Desertari, i'm a filmmaker. You should totally see my recent short film:
Buffy Sainte-Marie: The lie that was never told.
You'll find it on my main channel, _The Acoustic Rabbit Hole,_ if you want to take a peek!
at 9:45 in the interview you can see from her body language, the moment the lies begin. She touches her nose, looks to the side, shakes her head, blinks rapidly and begins to talk very quickly while talking about "not knowing" her identity.. she does the exact same mannerisms in the video where she claims to have been on the "wrong side of the blanket", it's what I've noticed she does in these sort of interviews when she speaks of things that did not occur.
Very interesting. I have learned that some narcissists show an internal anxiety when they can’t figure out how to look and what to say by blinking. I think I’ve heard of that touching of the nose and also playing with the hair. We are covering this case of suspected narcissism with HG Tudor on TH-cam.
HG Tudor simply glorified her narcissistic behaviour by reciting her career achievements and it was a waste of time. He ended with ,she lied. I wouldn’t be surprised if he got a kick out of her deceit.
Ah, the body language expert !
she "seemed" very evasive by talking so much about rubbing shoulders and dropping names, with the music industry. Repent and know Jesus everyone
She signed her marriage license with the same info as her birth certificate. Sorry Terry, I get that you're devastated. Great songwriters can be great liars, too.
Yeah, the gawl of this woman claiming she has no birth certificate and she uses it to marry. 😂
She's unhinged
And extremely egotistical ! .
Well said. Unfortunately TDM has been a loyal minion of the liberal elite at CBC for decades.
@@TanBurishere clearly a narcissist.
So do all adoptees. That is the only birth proof they have.
Can't deny a birth certificate! Why the need to lie? Beverly/Buffy can support Indigenous people everywhere without lying. Why not be proud of who you are Buffy - a white, American with Italian/English roots. Canadian fan since I was 16 in '66. Hard to listen to her now.
You ask why.
Fame and wealth is a very powerful intoxicant to some people.
Many birth certificates were made up for Indigenous adoptees because their parents didn't want their child to be discriminated for being indigenous. That was the conservative attitude during the 1950s. Her birth certificate could have been bogus and signed by a physician to support the parents who adopted children. I can't believe that so many people take the word of the CBC documentarians. Somebody had an agenda to bring her down. I will always appreciated and support Buffy for all of the positive things she has done for humanity. Too many mean spirited people are so quick to judge. Let it go and appreciate her for her brilliance.
Adopted children have the same birth certificate.
@@sr2291I take it you have yet to view the expose. Adoptive birth certificates are not signed by the physician attending the birth as hers was, nor are they numbered as hers was. She is a fraud.
@BasedRangerGal Mine is both signed by the physician and numbered. It is just a regular birth certificate with the parents' names and info replaced with the adoptive parents' names and info. My adopted mother even attested that she gave birth to a live baby. You have no idea what you are talking about.
This could be turned around if Buffy did one last tour. The "Beverly Jean Santamaria Truth and Reconciliation Tour".
At each event she would burn up one of her awards and perform a new folk song about false identity.
Better yet, give all those awards to an Indigenous woman who was second runner up.
Haha I like that plan!
She will be singing Funiculi Funicula, Che La Luna and other hits that reflect her ancestry
Her father changed his name to Saint Marie because of discrimination against Italians.
There is nothing false about her identity. It is your loss that do not know her now and never will. It is her gain that cheap shots over the internet far away are all you have. Get a life. I feel sorry for you, but not much. Abdool, you should get together with Dimsarge...over a few more bottles. Just get a designated driver.
If she just came out and told the truth it would set her free . She has made enough money . She can still live what is left of it in comfort without propagating this lie .
Ain’t gonna happen.
That would take honor, common sense, modesty, decency… and a sense of shame.
She IS free. Are you?
@@desertari I am freer than the air ! I live in the truth of who I am without claiming to be anything else for profit . Now the real question is , are you free ??
Shame about being a great singer and lyricist? No reason. @@bristolcorvid8894
Oh goodie- glad to know you're free. Now find your own special talent and do something with it instead of yapping at the heels of a musical giant.@@ThatBeeyatch
What really shows me Bluffy's true colours is her horrific treatment of her brother, threatening him with lawsuits and a smear campaign for telling the truth about her identity--and right befiore she appeared on Sesame Street! 😢. As an actual Sixties Scoop survivor who watched her on that show as a child and saw her as a role model, I feel angry and betrayed by Bluffy's charade. In hindsight I can see now her supreme confidence and creative output is totally inconsistent with the lifelong trauma, CPTSD and identity crisis that accompanies being stolen from one's Indigenous family. Seeing her now just makes me cringe.
(Swedish, so never mind the spelling) Your words really resonated with me, and your conclusion regarding the nonindiginous/privilliged confidence in taking on the world as she did, falsly presenting herself as Native - which I believe also stems directly from pure narcissism. Narcissist "super power" if you will. It takes a very detached individual to keep such a fraud going over half a century, while creating and upholding all those relations. They mimic "real people" while lacking that human core where Conscience resides. In its place - a dark void. And THAT'S fundamentally scary.
I acknowledge the profound pain and sense of betrayal, no, the ACTUAL betrayal, and what it does to the native collective and individually, with regards to the issue of trust, identity and memory. You all did NOT deserve this! 💛
(Also it's obvious she did those statements/adjusted the narrative and retired from performing knowing very well what was coming and when, after a year of professional research and formal inquiries from CBC. As obvious now as all that self tanning cream and redish foundation)
'Bluffy', that's a good fit.
She's vile
You should see her in earlier interviews before she was exposed. I have never heard someone giggle so much and be so glib. In hindsight, I can now see that an indigenous person could never act that way, if they had suffered; and someone who had suffered from sexual abuse, could never throw out lines such as “oh ,the house and the neighbourhood was full of paedophiles”.
I have been a friend of many indigenous people over the years. They say it doesn't matter as long as Bluffy comes forward and tells the truth. A simple DNA test would prove it all, so why is that not done.
The fact that she signed her name to a marriage certificate listing where she was born, her birthdate, etc. proves she knew all along exactly who she was.
That s what put the nail in the coffin for her. She played the Indian card and has no card.
YES!
100% proof of FRAUD!
Just listen to the music and stop the inquisition.
@@desertari I don't like her music either. Lacks sincerity.
No one ever forced you to buy her records back in the day. @@ylekiote99999
Her basic focus is always about travelling and "I'm so busy", and no one knows who i am or how talented I am, this is the common theme for over 65 years. blah blah. We never get the authentic analysis or story that regular people talk about. No basic thoughts on world events, personal connections with family, whatever etc.
Rare do indigenous people play the personal victim card like Buffy has.
This alone has been a disservice to our indigenous communities, and perhaps the most disturbing effect she has had on those communities, as well as the perspective by others of them.
In other words, the vacuous, exploitative, parasitic lifestyle of a malignant narcissist…
Well said.
Yes, she is always bragging and always subtly putting down other musicians.
She sounds manic. What a motormouth!
Working with reality is something Buffy needs to address.
Why?
I would have liked to hear Robbie Robertson's take on this, but he's gone. A true indigenous Canadian. Buffy needs to apologize to Kashtin, who could have exceeded her, but she has always been untouchable. The govt revoked the order of Canada from Steve Fonyo and he died in shame. The damage she has done is immense.
RR half jewish.
@@kevinjoseph517 Oh yeah, so that negates whatever the other half is 🙄
Do you think the government will revoke this time? Cause I'm not to sure they will bother.
Robertson was in on it. He knew ... many of the musicians knew including Mitchell Dylan especially Baez.
And Robertson was pure evil. Just ask me.,Good riddance to bad rubbish
I was reading just today about the Canadian indigenous musician who was up for the Juno on one of the mini mini years that Buffy won the award. He talks about how perhaps he could’ve won that award and gone touring and perhaps could’ve had a decent career in music. But the fraudster seven times.
My first emotion is profound disappointment, as an Indigenous person. I've followed her career for my entire life, from childhood to a senior citizen. I will remember all the good that Buffy has done for Canada's Indigenous people, but not this latest revelation.
I agree. I first knew about her because of the song 'Qu'appelle Valley Saskatchewan", which aired regularly on the CBC radio in Manitoba. It sends chills down someone's spine. This led me to look up that name, a few years back. The story about being from Saskatchewan made sense. I simply noticed she had been banned from the US, which can be interpreted as a badge of honor, the battle scar of a courageous resistance figher. I still enjoy listening to this great song, but the sight of an imposter disguised as the stereotype of an Indigenous person bothers me. The words "You can travel all alone, or you can come along with me" resonate differently now. It will take a while for this to pass.
hugs
No one can deny her musical talent. It just sad she couldn't do it with truth. All the best.
Does anybody remember Grey Owl? The Brit who made a long career from claiming to be a Saskatchewan aboriginal...He was consulted and spoke to kings and Queens of Europe, Presidents and Parliaments...On the radio, newspapers and books (1910s thru 1920s) he was well respected and had a great fandom...Proved to be a fraud later.
She was and is great- her talent reflected glory on First Nations.
She built her career and life on a foundation of lies. A sad truth for her and Canadian music fans. I can't begin to imagine the psychological implications of perpetuating such a massive public deception for 60+ years... Maybe she's come to believe her own story over the years...
who was harmed? besides your pearls from the clutching
@@vpcproduction7070 Well, for a start: (1) Indigenous artists she stole awards and gov't grants from, (2) the children who grew up watching her on Sesame Street and perceiving her as an Indigenous role model, (3) actual sixties scoop victims, (4) the entire country of Canada (we gave her the Order of Canada), (5) her family (who she threatened with lawsuits), (6) her brother (who she threatened to falsely accuse of being a child molester), (7) every person who bought one of her records under false pretences...
Nice avatar, fellow YYC.
@@vpcproduction7070 maybe if you lived in Canada, you would understand why this is a big story.
@@mayloo2137 i do and its not a big story, i suggest you talk to some indigenous people and ask how they feel about it as opposed by cultural appropriation
Cher and Rita Coolidge are both guilty of the same thing with stories and interviews that do not add up. Rita said she lived in the reservation in Tennessee and there is no Rez there! Cher claimed 1/4 Cherokee but her mom would’ve had to be half Cherokee for that to be possible. We know her mom was lilly white and Cherokee Nation has no records of her family. Rita went to school with Chad Smith who became chief. That’s how she got to sing in a CD with the Cherokee Children’s Choir. Another is Douglas Bluefeather of Ohio. Mary Youngblood was adopted by a white family too.
Yes I remember cher did the same thing when her hit halfbreed come out, her mom is white who was said to be half , but her dad was Ramin? If I'm spelling that right? She should have went with her dad's side to this, sad, 😢
Hi - Cher’s father’s last name was Sarkisian, which is an Armenian name; Armenia is in SW Asia next to Turkey and Azerbaijan.
cher presented herself as racially ambiguous in her early career. But it was never like her defining trait as an artist.
"Crying Wind" Linda Stafford is another one. She came and spoke at my mother's church and I read her first book; there was always something "off" about her too, but I never knew her personally. It must be hard for people like the man interviewing her here. . . he was/is her friend. 😢
So why do YOU care?
Facts are facts---Buffy's got to come up with some better facts now: "my truth" only gets you so far.
It is talent that speaks- the rest is fluff.
Okay--but she got a lot of awards and grants, including the $50,000 Polaris Music Prize for that "fluff"@@desertari
😂@@desertari😂again talking gibberish are you on drugs or are you just that willfully ignorant
The Bible truth Jesus is Lord of all.
@@desertariTalent,perhaps...but misguided. God/ Jesus knows.
Her son came out, admitted to all of it.
And you would know how reliable he was?
@@desertarias, any one .. ? Good gracious. Jesus knows!
The truth always rises to the surface eventually- unfortunately the reality is Buffy could not have gotten away with the lies all these years without people who for $$ went along with the lies -lawyers and managers in the industry and to fans who never questioned her - I’ve never thought of her as indigenous from the beginning and especially when she landed her Sesame Street gig - never was interested in going to her concerts -
Yes, I am 71 and from her era. But I never liked her voice so the only song I have remembered is Universal Soldier. I liked that song, especially when it was sung by other people with better voices. I think that’s why I never twigged to what she might be because I didn’t follow her. As a Canadian, I do remember that we all were thrilled that another so-called Canadian was a celebrity. But I still never followed her. And I never watched Sesame Street. About three years ago a person much younger than me introduced me to one of her songs that was covered by Eva Cassidy. I really liked it and I do like Bluffy’s version. It’s called Tall Trees In Georgia.
There were most definitely agents, managers, lawyers, etc. with a lot of interest in keeping and promoting her "American Indian folk singer" image. I'm sure in the beginning she was pushed along by powerful people.
Oh you clever clogs! You spotted it all ! Did you spot that her talent reflected glory on First Nations.
@@desertari😂
WHY DID YOU NOT ASK HER ONCE DURING YOUR INTERVIEW THE HARD Questions??????
This was done before she was exposed as Non Native.
It was done in preparation for what she knew was coming then.
This is a fluff piece.
Mulligan is a well-known milquetoast and fan-boy. A spineless coward.
I stand with truth
Well ain't you pure?! I stand with talent.
@@desertariyou stand with ignorance what talent faking a native language 😂
Ok lol the line when she said he lived like dances with Wolf and hers like the sopranos, well that was the icing on the cake,,😂
What cake??
I must admit I found this whole controversy on accident.
I’ve never heard of Buffy St Marie so I found this to be very interesting.
I watched the CBC documentary and it’s quite damning and factual.
It’s hard to believe that she did not know WHO she really was. I think she told the lie for so long to so many that she blurred the lines of reality in her own mind
The treatment she showed her family was outrageous, she disowned them and threatened them criminally and civilly.
But at the end of the day, she took opportunities away from REAL BIOLOGICAL Indigenous people who might have won (and deserved) all those awards she falsely received.
And the only thing I keep asking myself is WHY did she do it?
Money fame and mental illness she's likely a sociopath.
Why? I’m quite sure she is a narcissist. Would love to know what the relationship is really like between her and her son. Narcissists have no emotional empathy for anyone. I think she did all her good deeds, because that helps blind people to what you might really be.
Why do you condemn a person who you admittingly know nothing about? She is a remarkable person!
@@user-br2bf5co2c - I’m sure she is a very talented artist, and I’m sure she’s a tireless advocate for Indigenous people.
But that’s not the issue that surrounds the whole controversy is it?
Shes NOT who she claims to be, and she knew it yet chose to lie and take accolades from those she proclaimed to care about.
Someone in the documentary said, she didn’t have to lie about herself and she still could have taken up the cause for Indigenous people and she still would have been held in high esteem.
It’s a shame.
(But her treatment towards her family was positively obscene, truly repugnant)
I think she knew what reality was all along. Interesting to see that once her son took a DNA test and proved that he was DNA-related to her Italian family (would have no relation if she had been adopted), she started the public story that she AND HER SISTER were snatched away from the tribe in Canada and adopted out. She also jumped on the "me-too" bandwagon and declared herself a survivor of sexual abuse, but only when it gained her some social media sympathy and a possible explanation for the truth her brother had told before he died. Her changing stories through the years show a calculated attempt to cover up her lies. The fact that she eventually suggested her own MOTHER may have had an extramarital affair with an indigenous man-- THAT IS HORRID. She has thrown everyone around her under the bus of her own deceitful career: her own family, indigenous artists who deserved the awards she got, sexual abuse survivors-- it goes on and on. The good she did can NOT cover up the bad she did.
"It's Easier to Fool People Than It Is to Convince Them That They Have Been Fooled.” - Mark Twain.
60 years worth!
That's a whole lot of bronzer.
You're overthinking this. Just listen to the music.
@@desertari.. overthinking this?.. Even now , the FDA has to take down the comments about Ivermectin and horsey mockings , as part of a law suit as they were lying and this cheap drug ,could have saved thousands of lives. We are being censored in Canada now please share Commissioners Report released in Ottawa #nationalcitizensinquiry
I’ve concluded that the true and factual story of Beverley Santamaria is that she was born to middle class Italian / English parents in a two by four New England town and she reinvented herself by hitching her folk song career to quite a cash Cow by claiming Indigenous heritage. In 1966 the Chicago Tribune reported that Buffy Sainte Marie was making $2,000 a performance, while other common-or-garden Folk singers were paid $50.00 for three hours! How many retired indigenous folk singers are living in Hawaii?
You're running in circles trying to decide what to care about most- her money (earned through talent) or her indigeneity.
@@desertari not at all. Talent? You obviously don’t know much about Beverley Santamaria.
I don't need to- just to hear her wonderful music.@@tomaseire
@@desertari you would know all about being worried about money! Lol!
?????????????? Say what you gotta say, Tommy.@@tomaseire
It's not only sad but embarrassing to watch her skirting around the fact that she has lied about her indigeneity. Why is she so ashamed of being of Italian/English descent?? Why did she threaten her brother with another lie if he continued to tell people she was not an indigenous person and had not been adopted?? She should return all the awards and honors meant for First Nation individuals and apologize, apologize, apologize for lying for over 60 years!! The gentleman looks uneasy interviewing his longtime friend.
You don't know what you are talking about. Educate yourself about the brilliant life of Buffy St Marie.
@@user-br2bf5co2c🤡
Why are you embarrassed?? Just relax and enjoy her superb music.
@@desertari it's called second hand embarrassment....for people who have no shame, like this fraudster
I'm sure you have done enough in your own life to be embarrassed about- FIRST hand. @@Daysleeper1000
No. All those worrying about her "Canadian passport" ... she does not live in the harsh wilderness/plains of Saskatchewan. She lives in the endless paradise of Hawaii and has for almost forever. Looking back, she is sort of a Village People caricature of "Native Indian" ... Sucks because SHE IS TALENTED, and I enjoy her performances! Plus, we, as culture, are forced to lie about so many obvious truths.
She never got a passport. She never applied for Canadian citizenship. In hindsight I'm sure she never applied for either because her lawyers and Buffy knew the lie would be exposed.
Ikr, it's both sad and infuriating.
She is TALENTED. Leave it at that.
She retired to Hawaii were she lives in luxury. So much for her Saskatchewan Cree heritage.
She is reaping the rewards of her great talent and should do so wherever and however she wishes.
Greenwich Village era Bob Dylan made up wild origin stories to build his mystery….he stopped, Buffy maybe didn’t
The '60's was a completely different world than the world is today! There were many exciting, creative ideas that many people used as gimmicks, to further their careers, blind to ANY possible repercussions. Now days, there are many legal and ethical pitfalls that have taken center stage as major taboos, that can seriously impact, damage and impede someone's livelihood, given the perpetual, menacing threat of rampant cancel culture in our present day society! Perhaps, lots of up and coming aspiring people, from 60:years ago, did not have the foresight to see the possibility of how these creative choices, amid changing ideas and ways of living, could, eventually, severely come back to haunt them?! My question would be: Was it just the '60's mentality of promoting oneself that morphed into a phenomenon, unto itself; OR was this decision to conceal her true origins TRAUMA BASED, due to an event that happened to her, rooted in childhood, perhaps suffering at the hands of a family member, friend or someone in her original community?! I have seen symptoms of CPTSD manifest in the survivor as a rejection of many or even ALL aspects, (beliefs, names, national origins, customs, etc.), pertaining to the family and/or community of origin!
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@@taramoonshadow7260 cancel culture, 60’s, creativity…you make a few very thoughtful points. Maybe there was trauma? You would think that she would have come clean at some point. I was a long time admirer…mostly I feel bad for First Nations people.
@@taramoonshadow7260Yes the sixties were a different time, but there is no TRAMA in this story. It was made up like the rest of her background.
Better voice than Bob.
Nice Italian lady!!😊
Even her own son revealed on X (formerly Twitter) that his mom is of Italian and English ancestry. He has nothing to gain to lie.
Really? I was wondering where I could find evidence of what he said or the DNA test he did. Thanks.
Did he post the DNA test?
No one is only of two ancestries, one from each parent.
@@sr2291I agree. And no one gets equal amounts of ancestral makeup from each parent.
@abushcrafter3161 Nope. So, where is his uploaded DNA test? And where are his online DNA cousins verifying that what he is saying is true?
This didn't age well. Her psycopathy is terrifying. She is an absolute and unwavering psychopath, especially seeing as she was more than ready to lie about sexual abuse in the wink of an eye. Compete and evil.
You get it.
That's the best explanation I've seen. I keep thinking, _"How could she do that?!"_
@@zxyatiywariii8 stone cold psychopath
She rants on and on about herself.
check out the difference between psychopath and sociopath. She is neither.
Glad to see most comments are not defending this horrible person
Get a life and learn about a brilliant woman who has lifted so many others up. She is not a horrible person. I doubt if you now anything about her and her incredible catalogue of life affirming songs.
@@user-br2bf5co2c🤡
@@user-br2bf5co2c
She lifted many up.
Then she let them down so low.
Falsely accusing her brother of the words that shall not be spoken???
@@Phuck_Yeware you sure about that?
Disgusting. The amount of advantages she got on her lies is more enormous than many will ever know.
The only advantage she had was her terrific talent.
@@desertariand her beauty
You sound very petty and envious. What did she take from you?
Her voice, her showmanship, her willingness to represent First Nations- all should be thanking her profoundly and humbly.@@GatorCindy1
She has been caught, now she should appologies. Either way she will live in shame. Her story is Over.
HA HA HA. Her music- which is her story- will continue maybe forever. Shame?? That IS funny.
Doesn't Buffy remember being graduating from Wakefield High School in 1958? She doesn't remember being in the Glee Club, or the Pep Club, or her desire to be an airline stewardess? Has she no memory of the school dances, football games, hanging around with a bunch of friends after school, doing homework, and all the other things that typical Massachusetts students did?
And you care because?
🔥 BREAKING NEWS: Buffy Sainte Marie has just released a statement confirming that she IS 💯% INDIAN. She has revealed she is a lifelong Hindu and was raised in New Delhi, India 🇮🇳
😂😂😂
Made me laugh. Thanks.
@@lindajones8101 Glad to hear it & you are most welcomed❣️
She is an Indian Yogi, can levitate and walk through walls. She doesn’t know anything about her background, but is certain that she’s adopted by monkeys in Alaska.
@@busterbiloxi3833 🤣
A fake is a fake..............!
What a great opportunity for a tell-all book deal. $$$
TDM - rockin it as usually, just like back in Regina. Have been a fan for 60 years! I'm a bit disappointed about the misleading title. I acknowledge she is a great many things. Sadly, the truth about her origins has changed many times over the years. I guess we'll leave it to the CBC to talk about the elephant in the room.
What elephant. CBC did something they hardly ever do. Journalistic work. The birth certificate is authentic. And Buffy NEVER applied for Canadian citizenship or a Canadian passport. I think her lawyers knew the truth would come out if she did attempt to get citizenship. Either way very sad and messed up.
Just enjoy her talent.
I completely understand the fade and die thing, Terry; I am of the exact same mindset. It is great to hear Buffy speak of her career and creativity. I really respect her embracing the culture of the family who adopted her and doing much to hold up Indigenous artists. I'm just so sorry that she has been less than transparent about her real heritage because the facts that the CBC unearthed are the facts. Maybe Buffy has convinced herself that she is indigenous, but th truth is that she is not. It is a sad thing for everyone involved. I especially feel sorry for the people who feel they have been betrayed by her. I can't speak to how they feek, but I feel personally hurt by her passing as Canadian.
All that counts is the music.
This is Louis Buffy Parry here detailing the circumstances of my names "Buffy" and "Buff" and how proud I am to share this name with a goddess, Buffy Sainte-Marie. She is my female doppelganger, except I can't sing---but my poetry and lyrics can.
My maternal grandfather Louis Koers named me Buffalo the day I was born. My Buffy and Buff names were subsequently born out of this Buffalo moniker. When I was around 11 or 12 years old I experienced Buffy Sainte-Marie for the first time when I watched her perform with the mouth bow on a TV program. Given that I was named Buffy by my mother, a mother whose name was Marie, it was to watch someone perform as she could, someone who had my and my mother's names, that was beyond coincidence and instead, was fully transcendent.
And I am convinced that my lifeline paralleling hers is also not coincidental. In fact, she has lived everywhere I have lived, starting in the Qu'Appelle Valley of Saskatchewan and moving on to Hawai'i where she lived and where I was stationed in the U.S. Air Force, in 1968-69. When I started the famous Honolulu Crossroads Sanctuary for U.S. soldiers our theme song was Buffy Sainte-Marie's "Universal Soldier".
Humble yourself, Buffy
That's hilarious !!! And should she give back her voice ???
Dna test easily would clear her if she wanted to “prove” her ancestry?
Her son and sister have.
And they share DNA.
So Buffy, is definitely not Indigenous
@@TanBurishereInterestingly, her son has indigenous blood from his Native American father. DNA showed nothing from his mother's side of the family.
Why should she care? She has the talent and no test of any kind is needed to prove it.
@desertari in Canada she does. She lied about being Canadian and indigenous. You don't get to get to be a pretendian here.
"Pretendian" is a silly word, invented by sillier people whose only religion is political correctness. By the way, your PM is a "pretendian"- pretends to be a grown up man but is a silly, not very smart, boy. @@mayloo2137
She could have been an Italian singer song writer 😮😂
Not victim enough for a pedestal..
This interview with Terry David Mulligan is the last big interview she gave before the news broke - and she knew the news was going to break. It's why she's suddenly talking about "the urban myths" about her origin story. Does Buffy think "urban myths" are lies you tell about yourself for 60+ years???
And why do you care? Thank about that.
And why do you care? Think about that.@@desertari
We are not in grade school where simply mimicing what another has said is an intelligent response. Answer my question and then I'll answer yours. @@katkatkata3
This is just plain sad. Talk of personal truth and lived experience is a smokescreen. Her truth is that she misrepresented herself for many years. I don't doubt she's done some good, but that false identity seems to have been the cornerstone of her career.
Talent has been the cornerstone of her career.
@@desertariWow, you’re certainly trying hard in the comments to protect her aren’t you? You keep saying the same thing in her defence. It’s not about her talent. It’s about her lies of her identity. Her lies overshadow her talent by such a large magnitude that you continuing to say the same thing in her defence casts suspicion on you and your motives.
Performers or artists are about the work they do- the product. That's it. All the rest is window-dressing. Your fascination with her personal life casts suspicions on what you're lacking in your own spiritual life. @@CanadianDrifter777
Mulligan is a fan-boy
A day, A week, A month, whatever. At some point BSM will come to the realization that there is no getting around the CBC hit-piece. She will either have to address the CBC in an open forum or accept that there may always be an asterisk beside her awards. As an old friend, offer her that venue. Y/N?
And, hey, hey, have you heard the news..
There's Good Rocking At Midnight!
Expose these Fools💯
Harder to convince the fooled they have been fooled , than fooling them in first place . I think we all loved her .
so true
And still should.
I don' t think she was lying. Fake birth certificates were often filled out in Boston for adoptive parents with their names inserted in 1941 when Buffy was born. On the fifth estate so- called expose a picture was shown of what looked like her mother as a young girl and he said it was Buffy but it obviously looked nothing like her. It looked like her mother as a young girl. I think thats who it was. Yes she had a successful career in music. More power to her. I think if they ever do get her DNA (and I hope they don't because the results. if accurate and not tampered with, at this point would probably reveal the reason she doesn't look much like the rest of her family) or could be bought by the US government who damned her for "Universal Soldier" and if they still have Leonard Peltier who I believe to be innocent, what would they do to her, given the chance? It would be a grave mistake for her to take a DNA test now not because it would tell the truth, but because the results could be tampered with. The US government admits that it lies and attacks their own people. They call them black flag attacks. There have been many. I have always felt a lot of pain when the US used Native American warriors this way. Canada did too. They may have volunteered , because they answered that call when needed and I honor their sevice in defense of the land we share, but when it comes to murder for goods and land and money and power, well .... Buffy was right. I trust her over those who continually tear her down. Yes I do understand the anger, but if you feel that way its because you were manipulated by a supposed "documentary" video. It happens all the time. I dont blame you. I just ask you to really give some serious thought to all this with a clear mind and heart. Clear minds and hearts are, sadly, in short supply these days. 💧💜
I hope all the awards are returned. She made also a ton of money by deliberate deceiving everyone.
Just appalling that she is doubling down.
Cant imagine how her parents must have felt when she said she didn't know who her family really was.
What a croc.
Any ton of money that she earned was by dint of her talent.
Buffy is a singer. Does it matter what’s on her birth certificate? She inspired so many people with the words of her songs.
EXACTLY. Too many nosy busybodies galloping around on their highhorses...@@paulphillips9991
There is no chance she didnt know that she had no NA ancestry and that she'd not been adopted. Looking at old photos of her she appears to have darkened her skin or at least her face as well thru the yrs.
Psycho.
Revoke EVERY award!
I think she is Italian ... Not Native
Well Mr David Mulligan, it is my understanding that the impetus for the CBC doc came from young indigenous journalists who saw the PBS doc. It’s sad, but I think SM could stop a lot of the outpouring of sadness and anger if she opened up about why she manufactured her persona.
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She owes nobody anything. She has given her talent. Just say "thank you".
@@desertari no, she gave her gift under false pretenses, and those pretenses may have helped her career. Even her so-called adoption was probably received under false pretenses. There's no reason to reward that.
People bought her records for one reason only- her fantastic talent. @@geinikan1kan
Seems Buffy has maliciously interfered with Canadian Indian employment opportunities.
In 1975, her lawyers wrote to her brother, Alan Sainte-Marie and said "You have perhaps defamed Buffy and maliciously interfered with her employment opportunities". This was in response to Allan's meeting with a news reporter about her regular middle class upbringing in America.
If I remember correctly, it was her uncle who went to the local press in Massachusetts and told them she was making stuff up. I believe years later her brother who met her and perhaps the Sesame Street producer on an airplane flight (where everything was cordial) got a phone call a day or so later from the producer who asked him if he was indigenous because he was light haired and had light coloured eyes. I figured that the PBS producer was wondering about Bluffy and contacted the brother. Then I figure the producer must’ve asked Bluffy something about this. Naturally, she got shit-scared, and sent off a letter, threatening the brother to shut up.
Are you a lawyer?
@@desertari No.
What a nice uncle. @@lindajones8101
I didn't think so. So just enjoy her music and pull your oar out. @@PalmBeachFlorida24
Her sister posted her DNA results on her FB page a few years ago and it showed Native American ancestry. Therefore, Buffy did not have to come up with a wild adoption story. She could have just said she had NA ancestry and left it at that.
It kind of looks like Buffy started with the story as a gimmick on the folk circuit and then came to believe her own fiction. I really wish Robbie Robertson was still here to comment. He downplayed his own Canadian Indigenous heritage ( his mom's side ) until he had already achieved success and fame in the show biz industry. It's never been something that HELPED your career, not until Buffy took the fantasy of First People's history and spun it into a web of who-knows-what. At least some became interested enough to help. The 60s scoop was unknown to most until recent years. Even though she wasn't scooped, personally, it did draw attention to the genocide. Peace.
Nonsense. Buffy grew up White in the North-East.
This is click bait. Nowhere in this intereview did they get in depth about the controversy of her not being Native American. This was a softball interview, done by an interviewer who is an adoring fan. No doubt he's from that generation of "folkies" who look to entertainiers for truths, honesty, integrity and championing of causes. The trouble with this view is that the people who where singing protest songs, etc. during that time period were all de facto business people, in disguise. They all needed to have a schtick to sell to the public so that they could generate concert and record sales. Buffy, in this interview, displayed her propensity for exaggeration. She said that they didn't even have words for high tech in the 80s, and music. That is not true. Electronic synthesisers, MIDI and other stuff had been out, and modem based communications were out, and so was stuff like Quntum link (later to be called America Online.) She claims that it was like the primative age and that she was involved. This just sounds like a good sized exaggeration. She has a propensity for drama, and that commonly involves exaggeration. She needed a schtick to sell her music, and through her dramatic personality, created the Native American heritage thing, it appears. The folkie audience loved it. It gave them a "cause" which really appreciated (particularly the easily guilted white suburban kids.) She got her schtick and her podium, and that was a good recipe for selling concert tickets and records. Her personality is self indulgent, but she's smart enough to use causes, in combination with her attention need, so as to do something positive. She is an entertainer with a flair for drama, and capitalized on something that resonated with young people, at the time. Adding to this the Native Americans got a de facto pulbic relations agent with her presentations. Even if she was faking being Native American, that didn't negate that fact that the Native Americans were getting publicity boost. Of course they are going to go along with her, even when she's outed for not being Native American. If she truly were Native American, a simple DNA test would reveal that. And, if she were truly Native American, she'd be eager to get a DNA test, to put all of this controversy to rest. She's not doing that DNA test, as far as I know. You have to ask yourself: Why not ? She could easily avoid any future bad publicity if she'd just take the DNA test and prove her claim, if she'd not lying. If she's lying she's going to avoid the DNA test.
This interview was from before the truth was exposed, but he does give her a pass or benefit of the doubt which first of all is not his place and it's ungrounded, she's been criminally fraudulent.
@@lisetteenriquez-velazquez9684 OK. Then it is mostly the title of the video " Buffy Sainte-Marie Unter Attack - Listen To Buffy's Words" that is misleading. It implies that Buffy is responding to the allegations that she is not Native American.
Her SON took a DNA test, showing he is biologically related to her own SISTER, and not of native heritage. Case closed.
Well said!
I’m on the fence. I’m indigenous and acknowledge the importance of Buffy. The only one who can supply answers to this situation is Buffy. If she doesn’t want to clear her name with proof then people will come up with their own opinion and she will have to deal with the results of being quiet and hoping it goes away because it won’t.
Btw my fence leaning is more towards she is lying but I hope if she isn’t that she tackles this head on.
Have you watched the documentary "Fifth Estate"? it was done a couple of weeks ago. She lied right from the getgo.
@@TheCreatureWorksStudioThe evidence is plain as day.
We have the proof: her birth certificate and her marriage certificate.
Her alent won't go away, that is for sure.
She said she was. Teacher before a singer, yet in other documentaries ~ in her own words she says she left from college to New York to in coffee houses, confusing?!
And most cringe worthy of all; stated that she always spent a few hours every day while visiting her "home reserve" in Canada TEACHING younger tribal people THE CREE LANGUAGE!!?? Oh the nerve... In fantasy land that is! The order of THAT land is the one deserved
I remember her saying that in an interview, and I think she meant that she is a teacher of things about life, including indigenous rights (from the mouth of an Anglo Italian).
She has set back Indigenous rights
HOW ?
she lie how can u say u stand behind her!!!!
Lies, lies and coverup about her life! I bet she couldn't provide any "documentation" to the director of Buffy's "life story". Did the director mention the birth certificate, her marriage license (including her birth date) or that HORRIBLE blackmail HANDWRITTEN letter to her brother falsely accusing him of sexual assault/incest?!? It wasn't necessary to sell records or tickets, Buffy...you have talent. I bet Canadians are REALLY pissed off about this....not to mention the real indigenous performers.
We are!
Yes, she is talented, but her indigenous "schtik" has made her twice as popular as she would have been otherwise. I wouldn't be surprised if she's suffers from confabulation and has actually believed her own lies for the past 50+ years.
Buffy The Truth Slayer
I don't care what color her skin is. I believe she only brought positive things to the tribes. I think that she drew attention to the tribes as human being and not scavengers. The Indian people need to Thank her, instead of degrading her and "OUTING" her. What are they getting out of hurting this lady? I think she is amazing and talented. If she is NOT Indian, maybe she should come forward and tell her reasons why. I choose to believe that she did this, if she is not Indian, it was only to help them, not hurt them. My God, he has blessed her with so much, look at her at 82 WOW!!! It does not appear to me that she has had any plastic surgery either. She is still of WIT and Youth!!! May God continue to bless you Buffy. I also believe if she comes out, IF SHE IS NOT INDIAN, people will understand why. They will still love her, her music and her motivations, as well. Those that wish to destroy this lovely lady, Shame to you!
Thank you. I have to go now. I am a 72 year old person of mixed racial descent ( and yes, some of my ancestors were tribal people from this side of the Atlantic) and also an adult disabled child. I have an ancient and active medicine wheel to try to protect again after having been led to leave it by a spirit bear, to learn more so I can do that more effectively, and a world full of both beauty and the stuff of nightmares that are deep in my bones and I must get back to cleaning up this horrible mess left by people who are trying to kill Great Spirit in their desparate and despicable ignorance. I will be ever grateful to Mama Mary Benson,who I refer to as the "Cherokee Rose of South Austin" who was a voting member of the Cherokee tribe for recognizing me ( her first words to me were (" I have known you a long long time" ) and sharing with me freely her knowledge and wisdom. She lives in my heart and my music. The TRUTH is of paramount importance but if you think you can get the whole of it from a dna test I believe you are wrong. Results can be faked and payoffs from the US government that requires such tests and is WORLD REKNOWN for their blatant lying and taking extreme measures to protect their own war machines and the stock market that profits so much from it are also not to be trusted. Buffy is wise not to stoop to having her Identity defined by a dna test (like some "breed" of dog) that can be faked, messed with etc. If she ever does decide to get one she should get several tests. PRIVATELY. There is NO privacy anymore on this internet and I have every reason not to trust even this "conversation" . So please excuse me now. Time to go. I do not call myself a Christian, but I love these words from a dear Jewish man fom thousands of years ago: " Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of Great Spirit." I prefer the words "Great Spirit" and include , for God is an old German exclamation for being hit on the head ( as in "Mien Gott"), or Wakentanka. If you are sincere who read this please join me in leaving this sad conversation. Too many words.
This should be in the comedy channel maybe?
Hi, I'm an 82 year old Sicilian American artist, raised in Massachusetts in the 40's. I was not accepted by the white kids that I grew up with.
My father forbid me to say I was Sicilian American, so I grew up not wanting to be White. I was cruelly treated by kids and some adults. The pain and rejection caused me to associate with non white people. I don't think anyone in these comments has experienced this. This experience has changed my life. I can relate. Whatever the truth of Buffy's life, give her the benefit of her amazing talent! Thanks for listening!
Sorry to hear about your sad childhood. However you didn’t go on to create a false identity like Buffy did.
If that was her experience, there would be bo reason to carry on that charade into her 80's. She continues to be a shameless fraud and an imposter.
It's not just associating, it's completely lying about her heritage for decades.
This is extremely painful to watch. knowing the truth now, and listening to her one can hear how things are dodged and twisted.
And maybe a part of her at this point believes her own narrative ( although it changed so often through the years). When one has gone so deep for so long, I don't know how they can find a way out of it graciously. The power in her songs, her music still gives me chills. So much talent. But the deception and also the horrible way she treated her actual biological family, the threats if they exposed her, adds such a very dark spin on it all. I think this is going to take a long time to come to terms with. So, so sad.
I enjoyed it- no pain at all. She is charming and talented.
No shame
No reason to be ashamed of great talent but, unfortunately, shared with a group of losers. @@reenyny9502
As a lad growing up in in the UK during the 40s and 50s, our source of entertainment was the cinema, often with cowboy films, often featuring a white hero, protecting the white settlers, from the indigenous 'redskins', often depicted as the uncivilised savages.
I took that idea at face value, and it stayed with me until the early 70s, when one evening, my wife and I went to cinema, to watch the film, 'Soldier Blue'.
This was a story, set in the 19th century, depicting the US Cavalry attacking an indigenous encampment, including their women and children in appalling graphic detail.
It was accompanied by the song, 'Soldier Blue', sung by Buffy Sainte-Marie, which was haunting and full of emotion.
This film had a profound effect on my thinking of the subject, in the manner in which this indigenous race, was presented with admirable human values, albeit different to our own, but sustainable, generous, and deeply spiritual with a deep respect for the environment, and belief that no one person owned the land, but passed over it, leaving but the lightest touch.
It was white people, who had travelled to their lands, who with the greed of some, who were the savages, who herded the indigenous peoples into reservations, treating them as lesser beings, whilst the indigenous peoples were the ones who had a more civilised outlook.
As a result, America has developed into a highly materialistic part of the world, where the dollar is king, and Donald Trump thinks he is.
At the time, the makers of this film were courageous in releasing it, and it was a message which needed to be told, though to this day indigenous people are still often viewed as second rate, in what was fo millenia, therr home land.
For the remainder of us, there is much we would learn from them.
I wonder does she carry a Canadian Passport, how is she even Canadian at all?
A Canadian passport doesn’t make someone Canadian . My brother was born in Canada and moved to the uk @ age 13 and got a passport there. He’s still Canadian . Her story is complicated and based on untruth.
Only if she is a legal citizen of Canada can she have a Canadian passport. Visiting does not count.
that's what I want to know, there is zero info online. I can only presume she is aa Canadian citizen--she had to have moved to Canada at some point, become a "landed immigrant" and then citizen. But WHEN??
@@dimitriosotis8632 -be a permanent resident
-have lived in Canada for at least 3 out of the last 5 years (1,095 days)
-have filed their taxes, if they need to
-pass a citizenship test
-prove their language skills in English or French
-take the oath of citizenship. These are new rules so they may have been different way back.
I don't see any evidence she was a permanent resident in Canada. Her marriages were to Americans
maybe having claimed she was born here they let her skip a few steps?@@timothyletwin5911
Can't look ar her in the same light any longer. Also, as an aside, the product placement on her sofa behind her irked me from the get-go. Sorry, it's a ;feeling'. Muchlove to you.
Ive loved her for 65 years. We met in Northampton,Ma in 1989 we had a nice talk.
She’s of Italian heritage
Terry you’re more Indigenous than her 😂Thanks for sharing the story of women sitting around the table when you were young.
She’s not Indigenous.
Beverly needs to turn and face the music.
She should be sued for fraud
Ah Jimmy-Joseph ! You can't sue for talent, lad. She has it, do you?
Shania Twain's real father says that Eileen Edwards aka Shania Twain is also not Native either
Another narcissist, I believe.
Bluffy Sainte Marie!
All she needs to do is have a DNA test if she refuses then she is a liar
Oddly, her voice and facial camera mannerisms in this interview have suddenly lost their trademark Indigenous/Native aura that her career relied upon and was built on, her voice tones and responsiveness and facial reflexes here are now suddenly those of a perky New York Italian white socialite. She now realizes that the jig is up and that the game is over.
You live in a fantasy world.
Had to stop bc of all the obvilus bs, but around 9 min. in she pauses and twice looks down at notes w prepared statements and strategies, adjusting the narrative wich is the sole reason for this so called interview w an OLD FRIEND (openikg info). Also: The way she talks and comes across here is very unnatural and forced upbeat, non authentic and sort of scared. Knowing fully well the extent of her falsified legacy that is for ever to be exposed.
I identity as an 18 year old Inuit dolphin hybrid. I've done a lot for Inuits and Dolphins. How dare you question me.
I don't care if BSF is American Indian or whatever. I love her even if she was born on Mars. ❤
You can tell she is lying since the lies change every time she opens her mouth. She can't keep her lies straight. It's sad some people can't see through it.
Split personality. I wonder why she disowned her birth family
She knew she could make money this way by taking on a totally different persona.
Ghosted her family.
She’s a scammer and a fraud. I feral so bad for her brother. I hope she ends the rest of her days in jail.
So many unexpected lies,she hit the lie good when she didn't want to talk about her upbringing and really so very off 😮and she hurrying up to ask for it
Indigenous voices are why she has been discredited
Let me reiterate once again, in the 50s, and 60s Indian people were not allowed and denied participation in any movement that will inspire the younger generations. It was intentional to Psychologically attempt to strip the spiritual identity of the Indian people. I would not be surprised if she was coached to play the role, thinking at the time colonialism had everything under control. Only she knows that within herself, it was done to deceive the public that Indian people have just as much right to exposure as everyone else. She is none Indian, not saying this to offend her. She didn't take anything away from anybody.
TDM in denial. Hood pulled over his eyes