When there were few other Indigenous celebrities in the spotlight, there was Buffy Sainte-Marie. The celebrated singer-songwriter rose to prominence during the folk revival of the 1960s, building a ...

Sainte-Marie was born on a reserve in the Qu'Appelle Valley of Saskatchewan, Canada, but later taken from her indigenous family to be adopted by a family in Massachusetts. "It had been going on for ...

Buffy Sainte-Marie is a living legend and a musical genius. But she’s also “Buffy who?” to a lot of people who have never heard of her before. Her name belongs alongside the likes of Bob Dylan and ...

Folk singer and social justice advocate Buffy Sainte-Marie has said she has returned her Order of Canada “with a good heart”, following allegations that she fabricated claims of her Indigenous ...

A former assistant Hennepin County attorney pleaded guilty to three felony counts of promoting prostitution-but he won't receive any jail time. John Paul St. Marie entered his guilty plea on Tuesday.

It's no easy feat to summarize the influential life of Buffy Sainte-Marie — an award-winning singer and songwriter, Indigenous-rights activist, children's-book author, former Sesame Street star, ...

For the past year and a half, the indigenous Canadian identity of the veteran folksinger Buffy Sainte-Marie has been under serious question. Sainte-Marie claimed Native heritage and took activist ...

“It’s My Way” is the title track on Buffy Sainte-Marie’s first album, released in 1964. The cover of the album depicts Sainte-Marie with a mouth bow. A staple of Sainte-Marie’s early style, the mouth ...

The Oscar winner is also set to lose two Polaris music prizes after a 2023 CBC program claimed the Sainte-Marie had been fraudulently posing as Native. By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau Chief American ...