Do Native Americans Indirectly Nurture The Rise of “Pretendians”? A Buffy Sainte-Marie Commentary And Anti-Blackness in Native Communities
<p>Two days ago, Native communities in both Canada and in the United States were shocked to learn a bombshell. According to CBC, in a long shared documentary, the iconic “Native-American” singer Buffy Sainte-Marie is supposedly a white woman who lied about her ancestry. Now 82, Buffy Sainte-Marie has been a part of the music industry since the 1960s. In her work, she described her childhood as having been rooted in abandonment, uprootedness, adoption and mystery. The singer said she was born in 1941, in the Piapot 75 reserve, Canada, to Cree parents. Later, she was adopted by a white American family and reunited with her indigenous family in her twenties. Throughout her career, Buffy stated many times that she was a victim of the Sixties Scoop and that she never managed to know when she was born or where was her birth certificate.</p>
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