@@heidithaw1072the dad on her birth certificate is her real dad no way around this , my mom looks just like her and no native American in her but there were people who no matter what it wasn't try to get her to say that it was, crazy, I really like to know what her ex husband Sheldon wolfchild who is big native American and the dad to her son knows what lies about her,
Yes, good imagination, that’s why she pretended to be a Canadian Indian, adopted, accused her brother of being a molester. Yes, pretty creative… and a BIG FRAUD!!! She is Beverly Santamaria, of Italian heritage.
Life is a never-ending act of revision. Re-Vision. Like In-Formation. When we receive and vet (or corroborate) new info we are often re-formed within. Any mere mortal sure of what any one's future holds, or what a community's future holds, or what policy outcomes will surely be is not to hold any Public Service job (which should ideally include all of politics, yet we don't quite live in that kinda world...Meanwhile, those who are most sure of what earthly purity is seem to elbow their way into upper hierarchy leadership positions in all the world's cults, religions, corporations and even Public Service organizations whether NGO's or Dot Govs....) Mitch Ritter\Paradigm Sifters, Code Shifters, PsalmSong Chasers Lay-Low Studios, Ore-Wa (Refuge of Atonement Seekers) Media Discussion List\LookseeInnerEarsHearHere
I've reported this british trollfarm account and all its comrade british trollfarm accounts to Google/TH-cam and YOU should, TOO, its fake Grace Kelly portrait and ALL!!
Buffy proves every parent’s mantra: you can be what ever you want to when you grow up. You want to be an Indian, a Canadian, a great songwriter, it’s all possible if you dream big enough and lie long enough.
She’s not Canadian, she not indigenous, she blackmailed her brother to keep secret or she would have said horrible things about him. She was born in Massachusetts to an Italian -American family . And she been living in this make believe world and possibly taking awards from real aboriginal artist
She left home at 17. I'm sure the brother accusation was true and she entirely disassociated herself by taking on a new identity. She didn't want to be "their kind" anymore.
@marciloni12 lol explain those family videos and school pictures. And birth certificate.... we were all had and she knew what she took away from other female singers who should of got that Juno Now she's passed and this thing is in Hawaii so she can keep up with that tan
She just happens to be a better musician, writer and entertainer than than anyone else way back in the '60s. She's great not because of her ethnicity but because of her greatness.
I cant believe there are so many indigenous leaders scared to call her out..wtf...just because shes a good imposter and you like her doesnt mean she gets a pass for lying about her heritage...I want to say sorry to those indigenous men/women who came in 2nd to the awards she took away from you!!!
Dear Mary Ann Beaulieu9709 and earlier in this thread a coupla days ago referring back to my years-old complimentary comments on Ms Sainte Marie's long-running and most significant track record this exchange: @Game Greed replied: "@ulpana "She fooled so many people thinking she was Native the truth finally comes out that she is not native at all not even a little bit she felt the need to lie and say that she was born in Canada..." 2 days ago I respect where your criticism is coming from. As a resident of the Portland, Ore area where muck raking investigative journalist who has specialized in analyzing prominent institutionally connected "PRETENDIANS" Jacqueline Keeler is based. Jacqueline Keeler hasn't engaged in GOTCHA journalism. She is more interested in examining how a fake credit on a resume can advance careers of professionals who then are in a position to reshape Public Interest policies, or simply advance their own Private Interests. Here is Jacqui Keeler's paper trail of documentation on the merits of her analytically-based work: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqueline_Keeler muckrack.com/jacqueline-keeler I am used to hearing her discussing First Nations his\herstory on our non-commercial listener-sponsored radio station KBOO, where she is regularly sourced by the News Dept and also co-hosts a general news program on Wednesday Mornings with founding co-host Paul Roland and audio archived on the station's web-site: kboo.fm/media/113174-welcome-back-jacqueline-keeler-former-co-host-talks-paul-about-her-ongoing-research Ironically Paul Roland (who has excellent taste in selecting well-written\composed\played songs and music to accent his themed weekly issues-based listener call-in community radio programs) with Jacqueline Keeler's expertise being First Nations issues as she is documented Navajo on one side of her family and Yankton Sioux on the other parents' side. She doesn't only cover the issues pertaining to PRETENDIANS. And until the CBC's new documentary that seeks to document Buffy Ste Marie's biological roots, Jacqueline Keeler has not raised Buffy as an example of a PRETENDIAN. More importantly, Jacqui Keeler has addressed the often-contradictory Socio-Economic issues involved when PRETENDIANS can also advance into positions to do real positive things for First Nations politically (as in the case of Democratic Party Presidential candidate Senator Elizabeth Warren the U.S. Senator representing Massachusetts where she is a Professor at Harvard, albeit Senator Warren was born and raised in Oklahoma). Although a true Public Interest-centered reformer against institutional corruption, the fact that early in her academic teaching career Elizabeth Warren listed herself as being part Cherokee, Professor and now Senator Warren was attacked for being a PRETENDIAN, which undermined her Populist Reform credibility and she did not ever get very far above 3% in Democratic Party polling and Presidential Primaries running against Bernie Sanders and the far more credibility compromised life-long Senator from the Banking and Corporate-friendly Laws of the legal fiction state of Delaware Joe Biden and other corporate-captured big D Democrats. When another commenter here wrote to crow about the revelations in this new documentary film on Buffy Ste Marie and exposing solid documentation that indeed Buffy has zero First Nations blood and that she may have conspired with her Hollywood lawyer to blackmail her Massachusetts brother Alan Santamaria, an ethnically Italian-American into ceasing to write letters to editors claiming Buffy (originally named Beverly Santamaria) was the natural born sibling of Alan and their sister Heidi Santamaria's ethnically Italian-American parents in Massachusetts and she was not adopted by them from the Canadian First Nations Piapot Cree family with whom a young Beverly aka Buffy sought out and clearly committed herself to a life-long relationship that benefited both sides of the biological and socio-economic DIVIDE, well the often internal contradictions of trying to do right by the his\herstory of the decimated First Nations in North and Central and South America came to the fore. All I can offer as to why I agree with so many who maintain that with any or all such faults and personal deceptions. Even perhaps her criminal black-mailing of her brother Alan by her lawyer and herself who threatened to expose him as an alleged pedophile and abuser of childhood Buffy whose actions and uncertainty about the circumstances of her conception Ms Ste Marie has a few days ago offered in online interviews as her reason for "Going Native." All I can offer for my own enduring admiration of the "works" side of the recording artist and educator of First Nations his\herstory known as Buffy Ste Marie is the acerbic gist of Jill Sobule's song warning us to not turn our creative muses into Hollywood "Heroes" or "Sheroes": th-cam.com/video/xlsAdYjUzI4/w-d-xo.html Give a listen and consider the his\herstorical examples Jill Sobule provides so long before this biology-based scandal was raised to tarnish Buffy Ste Marie's long and productive life lived in service to First Nations issues: th-cam.com/video/xlsAdYjUzI4/w-d-xo.html Heroes Jill Sobule - Topic 831 subscribers 3,873 views Jul 29, 2018 Provided to TH-cam by Universal Music Group Heroes · Jill Sobule Pink Pearl (album title) ℗ 2005 Eagle Rock Entertainment Ltd Released on: 2005-01-01 Health and balance to all, especially the harmed Santamaria aka Ste Marie family, certainly the self-harm that now 82 year young Buffy Ste Marie may have caused or that her brother Alan did indeed cause to Buffy in their Massachusetts other-wise privileged suburban youth. 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Not that surprising. Her money is long and she’d probably blackmail them with lies like she did to her brother. What the real shame is how we as ndn people have allowed her to keep perpetuating bullshit. She belongs is a psych ward
Buffys world is quickly crumbling now and there’s no way of her coming back from that. She needs to make a sincere apology to all the people she made a fool of by believing in her story. And please return those indigenous awards,do it as soon as possible. Show some respect.
That part of her behaviour must have been the most deceitful in this case. She received awards that belonged to someone else. Whoever was the runner up in those contests should be contacted and given their well deserved awards.
I was a teen, but listened to her beautiful music from the start. I love her music, but mostly her heart! I'm so proud to say I'm part Native American. My beautiful maternal GreatGrandmother was full blood Cherokee. She barely made to
October 2023. All this feels so different now since viewing the Fifth Estate expose of her. She lied so persistently about being Indigenous. I don't know what to believe from what she says. Does she have any credibility left?
Thats why she has to stick with it now. People had 60 years to find out. She has been living as a native longer than she has ever been Italian. If thats not dedication I don't know what is. Complete with all the trauma. It's traumatizing living with all this bottled up. Please excuse me if I use the wrong terms. I mean no offense. I consider everyone my kin folk.
Every word, thought, concept, impression you state so succinctly is something an empathetic soul and open human heart can relate to. Most appreciatively yours, Tio Mitchito@@triggabun
Bill Cosby's endorsement may be regrettable these days. But the possibility that Buffy may not be Canadian born or Native at all is an even bigger bombshell. Show biz does produce some interesting pretenses. Some less savory than others.
Thank you for posting this documentary. I found her music when I was 16. I am 66 and her voice, her words, and her music has an importance today that has never faded. She is a true Human Being and I am so thankful that she chose to share her many talents with us.
Same here. Found Buffy at age 16 and now 66. I had a double album of hers. I listened to it over and ovef. I sang along w each song and still know them all today. Seen her ag rock festivals and other concerts. Still a big fan
I've loved her music all my life, and I know people from 5 to 68 who loved her music. I wish she had toured as the Italian woman she is, instead of as Cree which she isn't. She could so clearly see the interconnection of all people when she wrote "Universal Soldier" after seeing Vietnam vets while she was stranded at SFO. . . and when my father and I were stranded at SFO, in the 2000s, I remember thinking of her and how that very-common circumstance (due to San Francisco's unpredictable weather) had been the inspiration for such a heartfelt song.
Love Love Love Buffy Sainte-Marie. I have been a fan forever. I am reading her biography right now. It is an awesome read so far. Love and Prayers from Canada 🇨🇦❤🙏🕊
What a beautiful spirit she has that free spirit that is our right as human beings to speak our truth. Thank you Buffy Saint Marie for all your songs that mean so much to our generation .
Why have I only just discovered this documentary? I've absolutely loved Buffy since first hearing Indian Cowboy as a small child - and then only slightly later seeing her on Sesame Street. As a young "half-breed" Saskatchewan child, it was so wonderful to see someone who had the same skin colour as me on television! I felt I could take on the world! (And breastfeeding her child on television? OMG! Rock on!!!) A little over a year ago, she blessed our family with kindness and generous spirit, as well. My cousin is among the missing Indigenous women of Canada, and her daughters have taken to drumming as a way of coping. Buffy met with them, discussed their mother, as well as their drumming, and I know those young women came away from meeting such a powerful voice for Native people feeling renewed. Not only is she a talented woman, she is filled with such grace and kindness. Thank you, Buffy, for all you have done and continue to do.
I'm sorry, she is still a talent wish she hadn't done it with the costume She says something important " I never thought I would last this long" neither did the rolling stones😢 Its always the easiest details the biggest that we have checked, but no one ever does because " who would lie about something we could easily find out,? This happens alot more now even with the internet !!!
@@bramstayer She ruined everything with her lie, most of all the enjoyment of her music. She was willing to deny her own family and falsely accuse her brother. I have nothing but disgust for her now.
This is the thing, she seemed so compassionate and sincere. I never met her, but I loved her music all my life, and I know there are so many people she helped in the MMIW community. The past two weeks have been such emotional whiplash. . . Anymore I'm never going to hear her music the same way 😢
This was SO MOVING! Thank you. Buffy Sainte Marie is such a genuine Human Being who keeps Being. I was in tears for much of this because I just have loved her since I discovered her (so to speak ) in High School in 1969! Amen to her!
Its okay, really. You can love and embrace her as ever before. I'm 100 percent Indigenous. Or close to it. She got caught in a lie. Those lies may have garnered some things like awards, a bit of money in sales, status, privileges, but her own country subdued her and oppressed her. Put her on an FBI blacklist of some sort. Kneecapped her career and prevented her songs from airplay and being sold etc... So much of it evens out, and she experienced what it is to be an Indian. She was wrong in lying and if she won an award on her own merits. So be it. Recognize and rescind whatever needs to be and move on. I see some family and band members have long adopted her, and stand by her. I know many that call themselves Indian and are not but we raised em and adopted them so we don't care. Let them call themselves Indian; is it so important that we bring that out? Oh heck, we're Indians we'll call them white or whatever in our language (Nado' in mine lol.) when we get in a heated fight with them but that's usually washed away with the wind. For 60 years she made our people say hey look what we can do if we put our mind to it. Indians can be musicians and stars. She entertained us for 60 years and brought pride to us. That cannot be taken back or given back. We basked in it and lived with that pride for our collective lifetimes. Thank you Buffy. Maybe it was based on a lie but the effects on our lives was real, the pride and self worth as a people that was bestowed on us was real. I live it now. It's good. I don't think she hurt anyone. But all those little girls and non native little girls and boys that she inspired and became musicians and stars, I think they should just be happy and grateful and ignore all this, so should we. This is up to Buffy Saint Marie to come to grips with. She probably has. She wants to be called Indian, I for one will call her Indian. Come on, we're the Greatest Nation ever. We were 100 million strong and did brain surgery a thousand years before the New World Doctors. We built pyramids before the Egyptians. We got stoned on our own healthy drugs and got drunk on our own healthy drinks because we lived in God's country where with the Buffalo and the fish off the shores, and agriculture galore food was aplenty and so was health and well being. We're damned good looking and beautiful people with brains and talent. There will be others that want to be called Indian, there always will be. Let em. BTW Buffy Saint Marie was an activist for our people her gender, kids, the hippies. . . . fought for peace when her country wanted war. I'll take her.
What do you want done? She lied, that's not a crime. Trump told 35,000 lies as President. If you want to hurt her somehow then you're worse than her. @@MyPronounIsGoddess
Canada is not her country. The Italian-English American woman has no claim here. She looked her Cree family in the eye and lied, claiming to be one of their departed daughters. She was adopted under false pretenses. Take back her awards and make her pay back the prize money. - Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown/Pimisi
I thought nothing of her when I was young but now, looking back, you can see how beautiful and talented she is. Still going strong and looking good in her 70's.
Wow you sure have a wonderful gransma. Wonder if your dads name is Cody. I saw your grandma at the phx az fair in 77 (i think) and she introduced her newest production, baby Cody. Ill never forget. Learned most of her songs word for word when I was 16. I still know them all today at age 66
I never forgot this lady who I saw all those years ago on Sesame Street. I was a child and I was fascinated and blown away by her playing this strange instrument (Mouth-bow), tremulous singing of "Cripple Creek"...and her powerful yet gentle spirit. Thanks for sharing this video, which proved that my instincts as a young'un were correct. Buffy Sainte-Marie is a beautiful gift to us all. May The Force Be With Her...Always. 💙
wow... this didn't age well. what a terrible person. i knew there was a reason she always kinda rubbed me the wrong way. Her music's not bad but still... something about her always just didn't sit right. not native. not canadian. not a very good person... still pretty shocking because she's such an icon. Doesn't change the fact that she has some good songs. bad actress. bad actor.... but she's a good musician but so were ike turner, john lennon, michael jackson (still not sure i believe all that one but...), and so many other terrible people. The worst bit was the whole revelation that she threatened her brother with false abuse accusations if he persisted in trying to get the truth about her out. This whole thing... 60 year career... nothing but a lie. Puts a dark shade over every good thing she ever did
I fell in love with Buffy the first time I heard her. I was in Fairbanks Alaska, a Geology grad student, and finally in my own cabin in the woods near the University. It was a fall day, one of those shiny warm leaves falling days that only occurs right before the cold comes later in the month. Her songs were brash, knife sharp, that go to your conscience! I heard later that Nixon black balled her. To me that was her power. She spoke truth to power and paid for it. They say you are known by your enemies. It is relevant today and I love to play her songs here in Korea. It brings me back to a special time in my life. Thank you Buffy for you inspiration. I did not know that you wrote that love song. It was my favorite and always brings tears to my eyes. That is your ability to borrow deep into one’s sole! I You are so alive and you make us feel alive too. Thank You.
All people should be inspired by this most truly unique and multi talented woman , she is rich in many ways and evokes times long gone and is proud and so she should be as she has given of herself and learned many things that have enriched her as a person first !!! And a super Artist on so many levels, we are all living on this planet we call Earth , let's all embrace each others gifts, talents , differences and you never know you might have a lot in common but it has to start with us , there is enough pain and hate in the world , Think for yourself and don't let others negative rub off on you !!! Your better than that and know better as well. 😑😐🤔🙂☺😊
One of my sheros!! I met her once at a small club in Toronto, she was up dancing and I said "Hi I love you".. and she was so warm and friendly. It made my night. I 1st listened to her as a 15 year old while babysitting. in a rural B.C. community in 1976. It was like an explosion that only comes from someone who has overcome so much. Thank you, Buffy.
@@wintercameif she have just faded into woodwork, said no to specials and awards in her older years, it wouldn't come come out because she wouldn't have been noticed. Instead she craved attention. Just my take on this
I first heard Buffy in the late 60s and was instantly captivated. I learned many of her songs from her songbook. The feelings conveyed in her songs made me feel more alive. The compassion of her spirit, the talent in her songwriting, musicianship, art and teachings, guide me to a place in my thoughts where I am happier. To me she is the best songwriter, best singer, best performer and best teacher I know of. Maybe it is because not enough good people know how to speak truth in such a vulnerable moment that makes life honest. She is fearless and resplendent in the joy she feels being alive. I don't know, I'm guessing she's a normal person. But to me she is a giant and an amazing person who shares all she has to give. She is my idol.
So beautifully written "Uncle Jams" - I feel the same way about Buffy - I LOVE HER - have done since the first moment I met her in Toronto in the early 60's - she was performing at a coffee house in an abandoned warehouse - called THE BOHEMIAN EMBASSY". She was so BEAUTIFUL and SO REAL. It was before she was "famous" - we had some great conversations. Today, she's as beautiful as ever!
Uncle James do you still feel the same way about your hero now that it's been proven that shes been living a life of Lies for 60 years⁉️ she has no native in her at all not even a little bit she Italian😂 🍝
Uncle James , Beverly did not live a dream, she created one with lie after lie. Beverly threatened and silenced her real blood family her entire life to purpatrate her lies. She took advantage of one of the most abused people on the planet. She stole a heritage, made up ancestry , took away that stature from other deserving First Nation peoples and made millions in doing so. Look hard into your mirror.... this is your idol?
I've been a huge Buffy Sainte-Marie fan since I was a young teen. Think my favorite single was and is, "Love Is Just A Four Letter Word" and "Codine". I was there in the 60's. Yeah I'm that old. LOL.Still love to hear her sing. I had everything she put out on vinyl ... had VW Bug filled nearly with my records when I left home after graduation. Unfortunately, they were stolen in San Francisco in the late 60's.
This documentary needs to be updated. Go to the TH-cam video of the Fifth Estate’s Investigation of Buffy Sainte-Marie’s claims of indigenous ancestry. She may have sincerely adopted indigenous culture and promoted it in her songs but she was born Italian in Massachusetts, USA. She became very successful as an indigenous singer and profited financially from it. In the face of exposure with evidence such as a legitimate birth certificate, she just double-down on her made-up story. No shade on people who enjoy her music, but just be aware of Buffy Sainte-Marie’s real identity.
That is her burden to bear in private, with her family and\or circle for solace. Our non-indigene and First Nations have been rewarded, although PRETENDIANS hopefully needn't GO NATIVE in this sort of way to advance First Nations languages, family lives and spiritual paths at this stage of development and social evolution thanks to the mysterious ways of our Maker....Who definitely is on record in many different faiths' and scriptures as having the most Absurd sense of humor this side of Uncle Mel Brooks and The Producers! Tio Mitchito Mitch Ritter\Paradigm Sifters, Code Shifters, PsalmSong Chasers Lay-Low Studios, Ore-Wa (Refuge of Atonement Seekers) Media Disc-US-sion List\LookseeInnerEarsHearHere
woow i m so happy and grateful to have known Buffy she is soooo inspiring woman Love from Algeria I love so much native American culture so great people and culture
I love my cousin Buffy from the First Nation Piapot #75 Reserve Saskatchewan, Canada. My Great uncle Emile Piapot brought her back to us her roots back in 1964. Tansi
I love you, Buffy! You have inspired me my whole life. My mom sang your songs to me as a child and now they are a part of my spirit. This was Beautiful, but I know it only touched the tip of the iceberg of what you have accomplished and shared with all of us. I got to see you live twice in Calgary and it was a highlight in my life! I have created art based on your songs. Thank you thank you thank you!
What a lovely talented lady. A rarity you never get to see any more. Such raw talent that everyone should experience, if only once in their lives, they will view people like Buffy more positively and not negatively like many do about indigenous people. They deserve to be here just as much as anyone else.
I am so struck and inspired by this amazing artist. Her music speak top me. I like the idea of her saying she is a multimedia artist! I feel similar about ,myself.
Beautiful documentary about a great artist. 15.09 Buffy Sainte-Marie about the sixties: "It was a time when new ideas, original thinking, were not only tolerated but were sort of expected. And it wasn't about folk music really, that's how everybody marked it. It was really about students. It was really a free speech movement. It was exciting, it was almost like the excitement before a highschool football game. You had a sense of the studentbody all over the streets. There was a sense of 'the suits are in trouble now', you know, 'because we have discovered our brains'. And the suits were in trouble! And they never forgave us for it." There's the parallel between the sixties and today.
Protest Songs yes! the free speech movement instigated the upkeep of the Constitution! It's gardeners were the youth of the day. They watered that garden of freedom to speak. Thank you Lord for all the plants, creepers flowers and fruits in that garden!🌻 Blessed are the peace makers for they inherit the earth. It is not that the brave fighters had to lay down their lives for such a system that would revoke our right to speech. That possible infiltration of hypocrisy (though tenuous), was being weeded out. The soldiers who happily came back were met by the poets, beats, hippies, new agers, & free thinkers with respect. Still the point was not to have to sacrifice ANY MORE in useless, horrible, scary war tactics that annihilated INNOCENTS. And the draft resistance youth had to be tough. They were also handsome, bright, talented, physically fit citizens, but just not agreeable to participating in foreign invasions on foreign soil, killing blameless persons, ordered by men in high positions who didn't go to the war zones at all, EVER, some of them. So while being perfectly healthy in mind & body, the free speech artists had to be very clever and bold, to resist the draft, and on top of that, speak, sing and write and perform their work to please audiences. They had to generate enthusiasm and attention for the higher cause without stepping on anyone's toes so to speak. Fats Waller..."your feets too big!"...(that type of artistic liberty). It was such an energizing time, as EVERYONE HAD SOMETHING TO SAY! AND SOMETIMES ALSO EVERYONE LISTENED TO WHAT OTHERS WERE SAYING! Hare Krishna. Thank you Buffy St. Marie. May you always be heard. May you inspire the upkeep of free speech. May our speech and song always be the cause of liberation from sufferings for all creatures. 🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻
@@tulayamalavenapi4028 What "soldiers who happily came back [and] were met by the poets, beats, hippies, new agers, & free thinkers with respect"? That's as enormous an untruth as Buffy's autobiography has turned out to be. 🤦🏾♀️
This hits different now. She really leans into the Native accent and whatever her wail or warble is that she calls "singing." Now it just sounds like she's always been making fun of Native American singing and music, when I go back and listen to her.
Bury my heart, you go to run, my country, darlin don't cry, working for the government, star walker, love lift us up, until it's time for you to go. Some of my faves. Using her recording of Love lift us up for my wedding
Fascinating, so many moments that make me take notice, the rapport artists like Baez, Cash, Dylan had with her .... she is a life force,, Buffy's strong mindedness coupled with moments when she's almost self-deprecating.... but she knows her worth,... this doc is a joy to experience. I've always seen Sainte-Marie as a consciousness raiser, an educator, she has such a large outlook , and her songs and approach to living and art, her stunning courage, give others wings.
So, gives other wings? Who u talkin bout? Herself? watch (The Fifth Estate) Your welcome! She is gonna need wings, id run if i was her. Fake piece of sh!+
She should be proud of being Italian. A great culture.
I agree. And they are big on family, so I can imagine the hurt of her denying them that, and how proud they could be of her.
@@wintercame I think there is a secret in that family like maybe her dad is not her dad? That would be a secret at the time.
@@heidithaw1072the dad on her birth certificate is her real dad no way around this , my mom looks just like her and no native American in her but there were people who no matter what it wasn't try to get her to say that it was, crazy, I really like to know what her ex husband Sheldon wolfchild who is big native American and the dad to her son knows what lies about her,
she is a 'native' of italy?
oh ok, i'll get my coat........
She’s half English.
She's a creative story teller too!
Lol
thats called a songwriter.................singer/songwhiter
Lol@@AsifKhan-hf9zy
Yes, good imagination, that’s why she pretended to be a Canadian Indian, adopted, accused her brother of being a molester. Yes, pretty creative… and a BIG FRAUD!!! She is Beverly Santamaria, of Italian heritage.
Mama mia! Fr? 😂 lol.
Amazing Italian and English folk singer.
She prefers the term Mediterranean Indigenous artist thank you very much.
No indigenous in het
@@ro6ocarp 😆😆
Lol
lol , good one @@ro6ocarp
This doc may need to be revised.
Life is a never-ending act of revision. Re-Vision. Like In-Formation. When we receive and vet (or corroborate) new info we are often re-formed within. Any mere mortal sure of what any one's future holds, or what a community's future holds, or what policy outcomes will surely be is not to hold any Public Service job (which should ideally include all of politics, yet we don't quite live in that kinda world...Meanwhile, those who are most sure of what earthly purity is seem to elbow their way into upper hierarchy leadership positions in all the world's cults, religions, corporations and even Public Service organizations whether NGO's or Dot Govs....)
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This aged like a glass of milk eh
More like mayonnaise being left out on a fortnite.
Aged like a sashimi milkshake
Many people don't know this, but Bluffy belongs to the same tribe as Frank Sinatra.
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LOL 😂
The Italian Tribe from Sicily???
Now that comment is a spicy meatball. 🤣
Nothing native about her. She's lied about being native throughout her whole career. How disrespectful to her family.
I've reported this british trollfarm account and all its comrade british trollfarm accounts to Google/TH-cam and YOU should, TOO, its fake Grace Kelly portrait and ALL!!
Buffy proves every parent’s mantra: you can be what ever you want to when you grow up. You want to be an Indian, a Canadian, a great songwriter, it’s all possible if you dream big enough and lie long enough.
Lol yes you can also be a fraud and a fake.
And then act as though your parents were never your parents.
And threaten your own blood family, if they dont keep quiet. Mama mia. 😂 haha. I hate this lady. Lying, theif!
u don't know she's lied
She’s not Canadian, she not indigenous, she blackmailed her brother to keep secret or she would have said horrible things about him. She was born in Massachusetts to an Italian -American family . And she been living in this make believe world and possibly taking awards from real aboriginal artist
She left home at 17. I'm sure the brother accusation was true and she entirely disassociated herself by taking on a new identity. She didn't want to be "their kind" anymore.
It's so heartbreaking to find out it's all fake.
Shes Italian❗ 🇮🇹 😂 🍕 🍝 🍞
@marciloni12 lol explain those family videos and school pictures. And birth certificate.... we were all had and she knew what she took away from other female singers who should of got that Juno
Now she's passed and this thing is in Hawaii so she can keep up with that tan
She just happens to be a better musician, writer and entertainer than than anyone else way back in the '60s. She's great not because of her ethnicity but because of her greatness.
Busted😩
I cant believe there are so many indigenous leaders scared to call her out..wtf...just because shes a good imposter and you like her doesnt mean she gets a pass for lying about her heritage...I want to say sorry to those indigenous men/women who came in 2nd to the awards she took away from you!!!
Dear Mary Ann Beaulieu9709 and earlier in this thread a coupla days ago referring back to my years-old complimentary comments on Ms Sainte Marie's long-running and most significant track record this exchange:
@Game Greed replied: "@ulpana "She fooled so many people thinking she was Native the truth finally comes out that she is not native at all not even a little bit she felt the need to lie and say that she was born in Canada..."
2 days ago
I respect where your criticism is coming from. As a resident of the Portland, Ore area where muck raking investigative journalist who has specialized in analyzing prominent institutionally connected "PRETENDIANS" Jacqueline Keeler is based.
Jacqueline Keeler hasn't engaged in GOTCHA journalism. She is more interested in examining how a fake credit on a resume can advance careers of professionals who then are in a position to reshape Public Interest policies, or simply advance their own Private Interests.
Here is Jacqui Keeler's paper trail of documentation on the merits of her analytically-based work:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqueline_Keeler
muckrack.com/jacqueline-keeler
I am used to hearing her discussing First Nations his\herstory on our non-commercial listener-sponsored radio station KBOO, where she is regularly sourced by the News Dept and also co-hosts a general news program on Wednesday Mornings with founding co-host Paul Roland and audio archived on the station's web-site:
kboo.fm/media/113174-welcome-back-jacqueline-keeler-former-co-host-talks-paul-about-her-ongoing-research
Ironically Paul Roland (who has excellent taste in selecting well-written\composed\played songs and music to accent his themed weekly issues-based listener call-in community radio programs) with Jacqueline Keeler's expertise being First Nations issues as she is documented Navajo on one side of her family and Yankton Sioux on the other parents' side. She doesn't only cover the issues pertaining to PRETENDIANS. And until the CBC's new documentary that seeks to document Buffy Ste Marie's biological roots, Jacqueline Keeler has not raised Buffy as an example of a PRETENDIAN. More importantly, Jacqui Keeler has addressed the often-contradictory Socio-Economic issues involved when PRETENDIANS can also advance into positions to do real positive things for First Nations politically (as in the case of Democratic Party Presidential candidate Senator Elizabeth Warren the U.S. Senator representing Massachusetts where she is a Professor at Harvard, albeit Senator Warren was born and raised in Oklahoma).
Although a true Public Interest-centered reformer against institutional corruption, the fact that early in her academic teaching career Elizabeth Warren listed herself as being part Cherokee, Professor and now Senator Warren was attacked for being a PRETENDIAN, which undermined her Populist Reform credibility and she did not ever get very far above 3% in Democratic Party polling and Presidential Primaries running against Bernie Sanders and the far more credibility compromised life-long Senator from the Banking and Corporate-friendly Laws of the legal fiction state of Delaware Joe Biden and other corporate-captured big D Democrats.
When another commenter here wrote to crow about the revelations in this new documentary film on Buffy Ste Marie and exposing solid documentation that indeed Buffy has zero First Nations blood and that she may have conspired with her Hollywood lawyer to blackmail her Massachusetts brother Alan Santamaria, an ethnically Italian-American into ceasing to write letters to editors claiming Buffy (originally named Beverly Santamaria) was the natural born sibling of Alan and their sister Heidi Santamaria's ethnically Italian-American parents in Massachusetts and she was not adopted by them from the Canadian First Nations Piapot Cree family with whom a young Beverly aka Buffy sought out and clearly committed herself to a life-long relationship that benefited both sides of the biological and socio-economic DIVIDE, well the often internal contradictions of trying to do right by the his\herstory of the decimated First Nations in North and Central and South America came to the fore.
All I can offer as to why I agree with so many who maintain that with any or all such faults and personal deceptions. Even perhaps her criminal black-mailing of her brother Alan by her lawyer and herself who threatened to expose him as an alleged pedophile and abuser of childhood Buffy whose actions and uncertainty about the circumstances of her conception Ms Ste Marie has a few days ago offered in online interviews as her reason for "Going Native."
All I can offer for my own enduring admiration of the "works" side of the recording artist and educator of First Nations his\herstory known as Buffy Ste Marie is the acerbic gist of Jill Sobule's song warning us to not turn our creative muses into Hollywood "Heroes" or "Sheroes":
th-cam.com/video/xlsAdYjUzI4/w-d-xo.html
Give a listen and consider the his\herstorical examples Jill Sobule provides so long before this biology-based scandal was raised to tarnish Buffy Ste Marie's long and productive life lived in service to First Nations issues:
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Health and balance to all,
especially the harmed Santamaria aka Ste Marie family, certainly the self-harm that now 82 year young Buffy Ste Marie may have caused or that her brother Alan did indeed cause to Buffy in their Massachusetts other-wise privileged suburban youth.
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Good point!
because she has done more for their community than anyone else!! how can't folks get this!!
Not that surprising. Her money is long and she’d probably blackmail them with lies like she did to her brother. What the real shame is how we as ndn people have allowed her to keep perpetuating bullshit. She belongs is a psych ward
can't believe no one ever questioned that dark foundation on her face that doesn't match her neck 😮
I guess this 'documentary' needs an update doesn't it? 'Buffy Sainte-Marie Sixty Years of Deceit'.
Buffys world is quickly crumbling now and there’s no way of her coming back from that. She needs to make a sincere apology to all the people she made a fool of by believing in her story. And please return those indigenous awards,do it as soon as possible. Show some respect.
That part of her behaviour must have been the most deceitful in this case. She received awards that belonged to someone else. Whoever was the runner up in those contests should be contacted and given their well deserved awards.
I feel so fortunate to have been a young adult in the 60's.
me too!
I was a teen, but listened to her beautiful music from the start. I love her music, but mostly her heart! I'm so proud to say I'm part Native American. My beautiful maternal GreatGrandmother was full blood Cherokee. She barely made to
The Grey Owl of our time. She has no shame whatsoever.
Bluffy Sainte Money
Maybe the fact she dressed up like someone's exaggerated stereotype of what an Indian should look like was a warning sign.
Maybe the Indians should have said something, way back then?
The irony of her getting a big break at the *Gaslight* Cafe.
Great punchline...Ba-Ding!...rim-shot puh-leaze.
What a shame, all the lies about her ancestry. That is what will define her now.
Her legacy lies in tatters now.
Saint Marie, Patron Saint of Pretenders.
A little old Italian lady. 🤭
🤣😂🤣 This comment made my day!
BLUFFY
"You don't forget people like Buffy." -Bill Cosby
This doc has not aged well...
October 2023. All this feels so different now since viewing the Fifth Estate expose of her. She lied so persistently about being Indigenous. I don't know what to believe from what she says. Does she have any credibility left?
Such an incredible fraud. I'm honestly impressed she was able to fool the world for 60+ years.
Thats why she has to stick with it now. People had 60 years to find out.
She has been living as a native longer than she has ever been Italian. If thats not dedication I don't know what is. Complete with all the trauma. It's traumatizing living with all this bottled up.
Please excuse me if I use the wrong terms. I mean no offense. I consider everyone my kin folk.
Every word, thought, concept, impression you state so succinctly is something an empathetic soul and open human heart can relate to. Most appreciatively yours, Tio Mitchito@@triggabun
As most of the old comments here will prove - 'If you have something over the top nice to say...you probably shouldn't say it at all".
😂😂😂😂
SHE IS ITALIAN AMERICAN, NOT NATIVE 😢
She was adopted, so how would you know ?
well lot's has changed since this coming out! LOL
"I caught some of her act." -- Took the rest of us over 60 years to see that it had indeed, all been an act.
Until it’s Time for you to Go tears me apart every time I hear it. What beauty.
They are calling her a pretendian now
I remember you, always artistic. You have been a great teacher to me, and always kind Miss Bufffy Sainte-Marie, and I love you.
0:45 "Creative people do a wealth of things"
That observation has a decidedly *different* resonance now.
Bill Cosby's endorsement may be regrettable these days. But the possibility that Buffy may not be Canadian born or Native at all is an even bigger bombshell. Show biz does produce some interesting pretenses. Some less savory than others.
I have a relative who I always thought looked the double of Buffy; but is of English and Irish heritage.
my aunt fcuked a mexican while uncle was away on a business trip and my cousin ended up looking the doube of Buffy
The trickster was among us and we never knew!
Thank you for posting this documentary. I found her music when I was 16. I am 66 and her voice, her words, and her music has an importance today that has never faded. She is a true Human Being and I am so thankful that she chose to share her many talents with us.
Same here. Found Buffy at age 16 and now 66. I had a double album of hers. I listened to it over and ovef. I sang along w each song and still know them all today. Seen her ag rock festivals and other concerts. Still a big fan
Discovered her age 16. Now 66
@@sammyscotch9945 Going to see her at Byron Bay Bluesfest (Australia) in a couple of weeks. Will be a highlight in my life.
Uh huh
I've loved her music all my life, and I know people from 5 to 68 who loved her music. I wish she had toured as the Italian woman she is, instead of as Cree which she isn't.
She could so clearly see the interconnection of all people when she wrote "Universal Soldier" after seeing Vietnam vets while she was stranded at SFO. . . and when my father and I were stranded at SFO, in the 2000s, I remember thinking of her and how that very-common circumstance (due to San Francisco's unpredictable weather) had been the inspiration for such a heartfelt song.
Love Love Love Buffy Sainte-Marie.
I have been a fan forever. I am reading her biography right now. It is an awesome read so far. Love and Prayers from Canada 🇨🇦❤🙏🕊
presented in an excellent fashion as it really shows this woman in all her brilliance, creativity and love for others
I do not know her. I stumbled upon her great music and decided to watch this beautiful documentary. Thank you for posting.
She did her voice as good as Elizabeth Holmes, 😂😢
Well this documentary aged well, didnt it?
She's a fraud and a liar.
Bluffy Sainte Marie!
Well, thank God for including Bill Cosby's stamp of approval there...
I love Buffy's music. I have all of her vinyl and CDs. Also some of her albums in my ipod.
This woman is quite possibly the most beautiful person on the face of the earth... on all plains too... God has certainly blessed you Buffy...
No President Trump is
@@billadams8086 Trump is more like the Anti-Christ.
Watch DHOBET GNAHORE...PLS
@@billadams8086 That is a fucking funny ass joke.
@@mjohn9199 Trump is more like a B-day gift to racist, but Buffy is a gift to the world.
What a beautiful spirit she has that free spirit that is our right as human beings to speak our truth. Thank you Buffy Saint Marie for all your songs that mean so much to our generation .
After watching the CBC's new report on her origins, I am devastated. How could she lie for 60 years?
she almost comes across as one of those millions of old married couples
She is a Pretendian.
Why have I only just discovered this documentary? I've absolutely loved Buffy since first hearing Indian Cowboy as a small child - and then only slightly later seeing her on Sesame Street. As a young "half-breed" Saskatchewan child, it was so wonderful to see someone who had the same skin colour as me on television! I felt I could take on the world! (And breastfeeding her child on television? OMG! Rock on!!!) A little over a year ago, she blessed our family with kindness and generous spirit, as well. My cousin is among the missing Indigenous women of Canada, and her daughters have taken to drumming as a way of coping. Buffy met with them, discussed their mother, as well as their drumming, and I know those young women came away from meeting such a powerful voice for Native people feeling renewed. Not only is she a talented woman, she is filled with such grace and kindness. Thank you, Buffy, for all you have done and continue to do.
I'm sorry, she is still a talent wish she hadn't done it with the costume
She says something important " I never thought I would last this long" neither did the rolling stones😢
Its always the easiest details the biggest that we have checked, but no one ever does because
" who would lie about something we could easily find out,? This happens alot more now even with the internet !!!
It was makeup
@@bramstayer She ruined everything with her lie, most of all the enjoyment of her music. She was willing to deny her own family and falsely accuse her brother. I have nothing but disgust for her now.
This is the thing, she seemed so compassionate and sincere. I never met her, but I loved her music all my life, and I know there are so many people she helped in the MMIW community. The past two weeks have been such emotional whiplash. . . Anymore I'm never going to hear her music the same way 😢
Seems odd she was able to pull of this ruse for 62 years and what she done to her family is unforgivable.
This was SO MOVING! Thank you. Buffy Sainte Marie is such a genuine Human Being who keeps Being. I was in tears for much of this because I just have loved her since I discovered her (so to speak ) in High School in 1969! Amen to her!
Its okay, really. You can love and embrace her as ever before.
I'm 100 percent Indigenous. Or close to it. She got caught in a lie. Those lies may have garnered some things like awards, a bit of money in sales, status, privileges, but her own country subdued her and oppressed her. Put her on an FBI blacklist of some sort. Kneecapped her career and prevented her songs from airplay and being sold etc... So much of it evens out, and she experienced what it is to be an Indian. She was wrong in lying and if she won an award on her own merits. So be it. Recognize and rescind whatever needs to be and move on. I see some family and band members have long adopted her, and stand by her. I know many that call themselves Indian and are not but we raised em and adopted them so we don't care. Let them call themselves Indian; is it so important that we bring that out? Oh heck, we're Indians we'll call them white or whatever in our language (Nado' in mine lol.) when we get in a heated fight with them but that's usually washed away with the wind. For 60 years she made our people say hey look what we can do if we put our mind to it. Indians can be musicians and stars. She entertained us for 60 years and brought pride to us. That cannot be taken back or given back. We basked in it and lived with that pride for our collective lifetimes. Thank you Buffy. Maybe it was based on a lie but the effects on our lives was real, the pride and self worth as a people that was bestowed on us was real. I live it now. It's good. I don't think she hurt anyone. But all those little girls and non native little girls and boys that she inspired and became musicians and stars, I think they should just be happy and grateful and ignore all this, so should we. This is up to Buffy Saint Marie to come to grips with. She probably has. She wants to be called Indian, I for one will call her Indian. Come on, we're the Greatest Nation ever. We were 100 million strong and did brain surgery a thousand years before the New World Doctors. We built pyramids before the Egyptians. We got stoned on our own healthy drugs and got drunk on our own healthy drinks because we lived in God's country where with the Buffalo and the fish off the shores, and agriculture galore food was aplenty and so was health and well being. We're damned good looking and beautiful people with brains and talent. There will be others that want to be called Indian, there always will be. Let em. BTW Buffy Saint Marie was an activist for our people her gender, kids, the hippies. . . . fought for peace when her country wanted war. I'll take her.
@@justdyneeWelp! There IS a sucker born every minute; but spits nice to see the proof 😂
Yes Italian is an absolutely great culture she should be proud of and she can still advocate for us.@@MyPronounIsGoddess
What do you want done? She lied, that's not a crime. Trump told 35,000 lies as President. If you want to hurt her somehow then you're worse than her. @@MyPronounIsGoddess
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And the truths out.... fake phony... not Indigenous
Piney Woods Hills - my favorite tune of Buffy's.
A great Artist. I had the privilege of seeing her in concert a few times. Thank you.
Soldier blue is still a good song, especially the part where she sings "This is my country". Simply beautiful!
Canada is not her country. The Italian-English American woman has no claim here. She looked her Cree family in the eye and lied, claiming to be one of their departed daughters. She was adopted under false pretenses. Take back her awards and make her pay back the prize money.
- Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown/Pimisi
I thought nothing of her when I was young but now, looking back, you can see how beautiful and talented she is. Still going strong and looking good in her 70's.
Always loved this woman. Her music touched me since the early sixties. I am glad she kept our culture alive.
Buffy is my grandma!
Wow you sure have a wonderful gransma. Wonder if your dads name is Cody. I saw your grandma at the phx az fair in 77 (i think) and she introduced her newest production, baby Cody. Ill never forget. Learned most of her songs word for word when I was 16. I still know them all today at age 66
wow we share the same last name! Lowe.
Your gramma is so cool
Thank you!
Cody isn’t my dad but my grandma has a sister
I never forgot this lady who I saw all those years ago on Sesame Street. I was a child and I was fascinated and blown away by her playing this strange instrument (Mouth-bow), tremulous singing of "Cripple Creek"...and her powerful yet gentle spirit. Thanks for sharing this video, which proved that my instincts as a young'un were correct. Buffy Sainte-Marie is a beautiful gift to us all. May The Force Be With Her...Always. 💙
wow... this didn't age well. what a terrible person. i knew there was a reason she always kinda rubbed me the wrong way. Her music's not bad but still... something about her always just didn't sit right. not native. not canadian. not a very good person... still pretty shocking because she's such an icon. Doesn't change the fact that she has some good songs. bad actress. bad actor.... but she's a good musician but so were ike turner, john lennon, michael jackson (still not sure i believe all that one but...), and so many other terrible people. The worst bit was the whole revelation that she threatened her brother with false abuse accusations if he persisted in trying to get the truth about her out. This whole thing... 60 year career... nothing but a lie. Puts a dark shade over every good thing she ever did
I fell in love with Buffy the first time I heard her. I was in Fairbanks Alaska, a Geology grad student, and finally in my own cabin in the woods near the University. It was a fall day, one of those shiny warm leaves falling days that only occurs right before the cold comes later in the month. Her songs were brash, knife sharp, that go to your conscience! I heard later that Nixon black balled her. To me that was her power. She spoke truth to power and paid for it. They say you are known by your enemies. It is relevant today and I love to play her songs here in Korea. It brings me back to a special time in my life. Thank you Buffy for you inspiration. I did not know that you wrote that love song. It was my favorite and always brings tears to my eyes. That is your ability to borrow deep into one’s sole! I You are so alive and you make us feel alive too. Thank You.
"She spoke truth to power". Well, that comment didn't age well.
And now how do you feel knowing she was a big liar?
Don't meet your heroes.🤣
Impressive. Ill be looking the whole thing later. I dont want to be interrupted.... deserves my total attention.....
Lil' Note from the future - "Read Between the Lines".
Ah, the great Pretendian.
thank you for this inspiring documentary, I have been a huge fan of Buffy since the mid to late 60's.
This documentary Helped fill in a major gap in my thinking and experience walking this planet. Thank you,
There were some Major Gaps in her story.
All people should be inspired by this most truly unique and multi talented woman , she is rich in many ways and evokes times long gone and is proud and so she should be as she has given of herself and learned many things that have enriched her as a person first !!! And a super Artist on so many levels, we are all living on this planet we call Earth , let's all embrace each others gifts, talents , differences and you never know you might have a lot in common but it has to start with us , there is enough pain and hate in the world , Think for yourself and don't let others negative rub off on you !!! Your better than that and know better as well. 😑😐🤔🙂☺😊
Buffy St. Marie - I loved her from way back when. She is still a wonderful singer!
One of my sheros!! I met her once at a small club in Toronto, she was up dancing and I said "Hi I love you".. and she was so warm and friendly. It made my night. I 1st listened to her as a 15 year old while babysitting. in a rural B.C. community in 1976.
It was like an explosion that only comes from someone who has overcome so much. Thank you, Buffy.
Just curious if she’s still your hero after what has happened?
@@oxyfee6486 She's sure not mine now. The truth has a way of coming out.
@@wintercameif she have just faded into woodwork, said no to specials and awards in her older years, it wouldn't come come out because she wouldn't have been noticed. Instead she craved attention. Just my take on this
Nice comments for a very good documentary - so kind:) It's really nice to see these days:)
Shame she lied about all of it.
I first heard Buffy in the late 60s and was instantly captivated. I learned many of her songs from her songbook. The feelings conveyed in her songs made me feel more alive. The compassion of her spirit, the talent in her songwriting, musicianship, art and teachings, guide me to a place in my thoughts where I am happier. To me she is the best songwriter, best singer, best performer and best teacher I know of. Maybe it is because not enough good people know how to speak truth in such a vulnerable moment that makes life honest. She is fearless and resplendent in the joy she feels being alive. I don't know, I'm guessing she's a normal person. But to me she is a giant and an amazing person who shares all she has to give. She is my idol.
You know how to write! Beautiful expressiveness!
So beautifully written "Uncle Jams" - I feel the same way about Buffy - I LOVE HER - have done since the first moment I met her in Toronto in the early 60's - she was performing at a coffee house in an abandoned warehouse - called THE BOHEMIAN EMBASSY". She was so BEAUTIFUL and SO REAL. It was before she was "famous" -
we had some great conversations. Today, she's as beautiful as ever!
Marvelous woman, I just listen spirit of wind and , I love ver.
Uncle James do you still feel the same way about your hero now that it's been proven that shes been living a life of Lies for 60 years⁉️ she has no native in her at all not even a little bit she Italian😂 🍝
Uncle James , Beverly did not live a dream, she created one with lie after lie. Beverly threatened and silenced her real blood family her entire life to purpatrate her lies. She took advantage of one of the most abused people on the planet. She stole a heritage, made up ancestry , took away that stature from other deserving First Nation peoples and made millions in doing so. Look hard into your mirror.... this is your idol?
I loved your music, your voice, and the way you looked way back in the 60’s. My daughters and grand children love your music now.
I've been a huge Buffy Sainte-Marie fan since I was a young teen. Think my favorite single was and is, "Love Is Just A Four Letter Word" and "Codine". I was there in the 60's. Yeah I'm that old. LOL.Still love to hear her sing. I had everything she put out on vinyl ... had VW Bug filled nearly with my records when I left home after graduation. Unfortunately, they were stolen in San Francisco in the late 60's.
What a beautiful tribute to a downright lovely woman.
More like a liar.
This documentary needs to be updated. Go to the TH-cam video of the Fifth Estate’s Investigation of Buffy Sainte-Marie’s claims of indigenous ancestry. She may have sincerely adopted indigenous culture and promoted it in her songs but she was born Italian in Massachusetts, USA. She became very successful as an indigenous singer and profited financially from it. In the face of exposure with evidence such as a legitimate birth certificate, she just double-down on her made-up story. No shade on people who enjoy her music, but just be aware of Buffy Sainte-Marie’s real identity.
That is her burden to bear in private, with her family and\or circle for solace. Our non-indigene and First Nations have been rewarded, although PRETENDIANS hopefully needn't GO NATIVE in this sort of way to advance First Nations languages, family lives and spiritual paths at this stage of development and social evolution thanks to the mysterious ways of our Maker....Who definitely is on record in many different faiths' and scriptures as having the most Absurd sense of humor this side of Uncle Mel Brooks and The Producers!
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@@ulpana It would be, "in private", if she hadn't used it for her own duplicitous gain in public.
what the REVELATIONS I post...she is an amazing actress. what a 60 year act.
I found a album in an old hippie house that got abandoned ln early 60's it was Buffy . 1967
woow i m so happy and grateful to have known Buffy
she is soooo inspiring woman Love from Algeria I love so much native American culture so great people and culture
Beverly is so talented! 🍝🍕
Good documentary on the Italian-American.
This aged horribly 😂
I love my cousin Buffy from the First Nation Piapot #75 Reserve Saskatchewan, Canada. My Great uncle Emile Piapot brought her back to us her roots back in 1964. Tansi
I love you, Buffy! You have inspired me my whole life. My mom sang your songs to me as a child and now they are a part of my spirit. This was Beautiful, but I know it only touched the tip of the iceberg of what you have accomplished and shared with all of us. I got to see you live twice in Calgary and it was a highlight in my life! I have created art based on your songs. Thank you thank you thank you!
She is a liar and many other horrible things but she has lived in a fantasy with her talent. Her talent was real.
She’s a loiar
@@pattiholzheimer4572 Disgusting, and she lies too.
What a lovely talented lady. A rarity you never get to see any more. Such raw talent that everyone should experience, if only once in their lives, they will view people like Buffy more positively and not negatively like many do about indigenous people. They deserve to be here just as much as anyone else.
I am so struck and inspired by this amazing artist. Her music speak top me. I like the idea of her saying she is a multimedia artist! I feel similar about ,myself.
Beautiful documentary about a great artist. 15.09 Buffy Sainte-Marie about the sixties: "It was a time when new ideas, original thinking, were not only tolerated but were sort of expected. And it wasn't about folk music really, that's how everybody marked it. It was really about students. It was really a free speech movement. It was exciting, it was almost like the excitement before a highschool football game. You had a sense of the studentbody all over the streets. There was a sense of 'the suits are in trouble now', you know, 'because we have discovered our brains'. And the suits were in trouble! And they never forgave us for it." There's the parallel between the sixties and today.
Protest Songs
yes! the free speech movement instigated the upkeep of the Constitution! It's gardeners were the youth of the day. They watered that garden of freedom to speak. Thank you Lord for all the plants, creepers flowers and fruits in that garden!🌻
Blessed are the peace makers for they inherit the earth. It is not that the brave fighters had to lay down their lives for such a system that would revoke our right to speech. That possible infiltration of hypocrisy (though tenuous), was being weeded out. The soldiers who happily came back were met by the poets, beats, hippies, new agers, & free thinkers with respect. Still the point was not to have to sacrifice ANY MORE in useless, horrible, scary war tactics that annihilated INNOCENTS.
And the draft resistance youth had to be tough. They were also handsome, bright, talented, physically fit citizens, but just not agreeable to participating in foreign invasions on foreign soil, killing blameless persons, ordered by men in high positions who didn't go to the war zones at all, EVER, some of them.
So while being perfectly healthy in mind & body, the free speech artists had to be very clever and bold, to resist the draft, and on top of that, speak, sing and write and perform their work to please audiences. They had to generate enthusiasm and attention for the higher cause without stepping on anyone's toes so to speak.
Fats Waller..."your feets too big!"...(that type of artistic liberty).
It was such an energizing time, as EVERYONE HAD SOMETHING TO SAY!
AND SOMETIMES ALSO EVERYONE LISTENED TO WHAT OTHERS WERE SAYING!
Hare Krishna. Thank you Buffy St. Marie. May you always be heard. May you inspire the upkeep of free speech.
May our speech and song always be the cause of liberation from sufferings for all creatures.
🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻
@@tulayamalavenapi4028 The soldiers were spit on NOT met with respect.
@@tulayamalavenapi4028 What "soldiers who happily came back [and] were met by the poets, beats, hippies, new agers, & free thinkers with respect"?
That's as enormous an untruth as Buffy's autobiography has turned out to be. 🤦🏾♀️
That all turned out to be a crock of shit when they went after Trump while ignoring actual war criminals.
Love Buffy. Ive seen her in concert 3 times
What a terrific documentary about an incredibly amazing artist. Mahalo!
She has been my favorite since I heard her in the late 60's. One of the most talented people on earth. And she just keeps getting better.
aged like fine wine
This hits different now. She really leans into the Native accent and whatever her wail or warble is that she calls "singing." Now it just sounds like she's always been making fun of Native American singing and music, when I go back and listen to her.
love this.Documentary by Buffy Sainte ,Marie
Bury my heart, you go to run, my country, darlin don't cry, working for the government, star walker, love lift us up, until it's time for you to go. Some of my faves. Using her recording of Love lift us up for my wedding
Fascinating, so many moments that make me take notice, the rapport artists like Baez, Cash, Dylan had with her .... she is a life force,, Buffy's strong mindedness coupled with moments when she's almost self-deprecating.... but she knows her worth,... this doc is a joy to experience. I've always seen Sainte-Marie as a consciousness raiser, an educator, she has such a large outlook , and her songs and approach to living and art, her stunning courage, give others wings.
And mow we know she is a fraud
So, gives other wings? Who u talkin bout? Herself? watch (The Fifth Estate) Your welcome! She is gonna need wings, id run if i was her. Fake piece of sh!+
Thank you for sharing this documentary. Thank you very much. What a great talented artist
This is wonderful. Thank you for sharing!
Feeling blessed to find this beautiful person, soul recently.
You are so amazing and awesome. Thanks so much for sharing and caring ♡from texas
I got to know Buffy because of her album Illuminations, but I found out she is much more.
We all did. We all have been "Illuminated". She is indeed much more.