Buffy Sainte-Marie is being accused of spreading around a lot of disinformation.
As a self-proclaimed proud Cree woman, the Oscar-winning singer-songwriter and social activist has spent her entire career fighting for and focused on the issues facing Indigenous peoples in the United States and Canada.
But a new blockbuster investigation by the Canadian Broadcast Corporation claims that Sainte-Marie is nothing but a fake.
From the beginning, Sainte-Marie, 82, professed that she was born on a Piapot Cree reservation in Canada and later adopted by Albert and Winifred Santamaria, who raised her near Boston, Massachusetts.
“When I go home to the Cree reserve in Canada where I was born, I usually spend a few hours of every day teaching the Cree language,” she wrote in 1971’s “Buffy Sainte-Marie Songbook.”
She repeated the claims of her heritage during an interview with the LA Times magazine, saying: “I was born on the Piapot Cree reservation near Craven, Sask.”
Yet, several members of Sainte-Marie’s family have stepped forward to challenge these claims.
“She wasn’t born in Canada.… She’s clearly born in the…
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