Buffy Sainte-Marie
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Birth name | Beverly Jean Santamaria |
Born | Stoneham, Massachusetts, U.S. | February 20, 1941
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Years active | 1963–2023 |
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Website | buffysainte-marie |
Buffy Sainte-Marie, OC (born Beverly Jean Santamaria; February 20, 1941[1]) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and social activist.[2]
Sainte-Marie's singing and writing repertoire includes subjects of love, war, religion, and mysticism. She has won recognition, awards, and honors for her music as well as her work in education and social activism. In 1983, her co-written song "Up Where We Belong", for the film An Officer and a Gentleman, won the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 55th Academy Awards.[3][4] The song also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song that same year.[5]
Since the early 1960s, Sainte-Marie claimed Indigenous Canadian ancestry, but a 2023 investigation by CBC News concluded she was born in the United States and is of Italian and English descent.[6] Some Indigenous musicians and organizations have since called for awards she won while falsely claiming an Indigenous identity to be rescinded, including her 2018 Juno Award for Indigenous Artist or Group of the Year.[7][8][9][10][11] In her work, she has focused on issues facing Indigenous peoples of the United States and Canada. In 1997, she founded the Cradleboard Teaching Project, an educational curriculum devoted to better understanding Native Americans.[12]
Early life and education
Sainte-Marie was born at the
Sainte-Marie taught herself to play piano and guitar in her childhood and teen years. In the 1950s, Sainte-Marie attended the
Career
1960–1979: Rise to prominence
In college[
In 1963, recovering from a throat infection, Sainte-Marie became addicted to
She was subsequently named
Sainte-Marie's other well-known songs include "
Sainte-Marie appeared in "The Heritage" episode of
In 1979, Spirit of the Wind, featuring Sainte-Marie's original musical score, including the song "Spirit of the Wind", was shown at the Cannes Film Festival.[37] The film is a docudrama about George Attla, a "World Champion dog sledder". The American Indian Film Festival, which exhibited the film in 1980, recognizes accurate historical and contemporary portrayals of Native Americans.[37]
1980–1999: Established career
Sainte-Marie began using
In 1986, British
Her next album followed up in 1996 with Up Where We Belong, an album on which she re-recorded a number of her greatest hits in more unplugged and acoustic versions, including a re-release of "Universal Soldier". Sainte-Marie has exhibited her art at the Glenbow Museum in Calgary, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, the Emily Carr Gallery in Vancouver and the American Indian Arts Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In 1995, she provided the voice of the spirit in the magic mirror in HBO's Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child, which featured a Native American retelling of the Snow White fairy tale. Also in 1995, the Indigo Girls released two versions of Sainte-Marie's protest song "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" on their album 1200 Curfews.
In 1996, she started the Nihewan Foundation, a philanthropic non-profit fund for American Indian Education devoted to improving Native American students’ participation in learning. The word nihewan comes from the Cree language and means "talk Cree", which implies "be your culture". Sainte-Marie founded the Cradleboard Teaching Project in October 1996 using funds from her Nihewan Foundation and with a two-year grant from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation of Battle Creek, Michigan, with projects across Mohawk, Cree, Ojibwe, Menominee, Coeur d'Alene, Navajo, Quinault, Hawaiian, and Apache communities in eleven states, partnered with a non-Native class of the same grade level for Elementary, Middle, and High School grades in the disciplines of Geography, History, Social Studies, Music and Science and produced a multimedia curriculum CD, Science: Through Native American Eyes.[48]
2000–2023: Later work and retirement
In 2000, Sainte-Marie gave the commencement address at
In 2008, a two-CD set titled Buffy/Changing Woman/Sweet America: The Mid-1970s Recordings was released, compiling the three studio albums that she recorded for
In 2016, Sainte-Marie toured North America with Mark Olexson (bass), Anthony King (guitar), Michel Bruyere (drums), and Kibwe Thomas (keyboards).[54] In 2017, she released the single "You Got to Run (Spirit of the Wind)", a collaboration with fellow Polaris Music Prize laureate, Tanya Tagaq.[55] The song was inspired by George Attla who is a champion dog sled racer from Alaska.[56] On November 29, 2019, a 50th-anniversary edition of Sainte-Marie's 1969 album, Illuminations, was released on vinyl by Concord Records, the company that bought Vanguard Records, the original publisher of the album.[57] Saint-Marie is the subject of Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On, a 2022 documentary film by Madison Thomas.[58] In the same year the National Arts Centre staged Buffy Sainte-Marie: Starwalker, a tribute concert of musicians performing Sainte-Marie's songs.[59] On August 3, 2023, Saint-Marie issued a statement announcing her retirement from live performances, due to health concerns.[60]
Claim of Indigenous identity
Sainte-Marie has claimed
Early in her career, various newspapers referred to her as Algonquin, full-blooded Algonquin, Mi'kmaq, and half-Mi'kmaq.[63] The first reference to Sainte-Marie being Cree that CBC News could locate during its investigation of her identity came in December 1963, when the Vancouver Sun called her a "Cree Indian".[63] Sainte-Marie reiterated that she has community ties with the Piapot First Nation and that she was adopted as an adult by Chief Emile Piapot and Clara Starblanket.[63] Emile's great-granddaughter Ntawnis Piapot has corroborated this, saying Sainte-Marie was adopted according to traditional Cree customs over "days and months and years".[65]
Some members of the Sainte-Marie family had attempted to clarify her European ancestry in the 1960s and 1970s, but the singer threatened them with legal action for doing so.
In October 2023, an investigation by the CBC's The Fifth Estate television program disproved Sainte-Marie's career-long claims of Indigenous ancestry. It included interviews with some of her relatives and located her birth certificate which listed her as white and her supposed adopted parents as her birth parents.[63] Sainte-Marie's 2018 authorized biography states she was "probably born" on the Piapot First Nation reserve in Saskatchewan,[66][page needed] and throughout her adult life she claimed she was adopted and does not know where she was born or who her biological parents are.[63] However, there is no known official record of her adoption.[63]
Descendants of Piapot and Starblanket also issued a statement defending Sainte-Marie's ties to the Piapot First Nation, saying that "We claim her as a member of our family and all of our family members are from the Piapot First Nation. To us, that holds far more weight than any paper documentation or colonial record keeping ever could." They also criticized the allegations against Sainte-Marie as being "hurtful, ignorant, colonial — and racist".[67]
On October 27, 2023, CBC News published Sainte-Marie's official birth certificate. It indicates that she was born in Stoneham, Massachusetts, to her white parents, Albert and Winifred Santamaria.[6] Her son Cody has stated that she obtained her claims to Native identity through "naturalization" and not by birth.[68] To verify Sainte-Marie's early Mi'kmaq identity claims, her younger sister took a DNA test which showed that she had "almost no" Native American ancestry and she says she is genetically related to Sainte-Marie's son, which would not be possible if Sainte-Marie was adopted as she claimed.[68]
Responding to the CBC News findings, the acting chief of the Piapot First Nation, Ira Lavallee, noted that despite her false claims of being Indigenous, Sainte-Marie remained accepted, saying that "We do have one of our families in our community that did adopt her. Regardless of her ancestry, that adoption in our culture to us is legitimate."[69] In late November 2023, Sainte-Marie deleted all claims to being Cree and born on Piapot First Nation in Saskatchewan from her official website. Lavallee said that Sainte-Marie should take a DNA test to clear up confusions, "That's something that anyone in my community can do and would not have fear of doing because we know who we are and what we are, and it's easily provable through a DNA test. If Buffy did that, that's one thing that could clear all this up."[70] Cree author Darrel J. McLeod said that Sainte-Marie is an honorary member of the Piapot family, but that growing up with a white family allowed her to develop her talent and audience from a young age and that she should "apologize, come clean, stop gaslighting us and find a way to make amends".[71]
Honors and awards
Honorary degrees
University | Title | Year Awarded |
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University of Massachusetts | Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts | 1983[citation needed] |
University of Regina | Honorary Doctor of Laws | 1996[citation needed] |
Lakehead University | Honorary Doctor of Letters | 2000[72] |
University of Saskatchewan | Honorary Doctor of Humanities | 2003[73] |
Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design | Honorary Doctor of Letters | 2007[74] |
Carleton University | Honorary Doctor of Laws | 2008[75] |
University of Western Ontario | Honorary Doctor of Music | 2009[76] |
Ontario College of Art and Design
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Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts | 2010[77] |
Brandon University | Honorary Doctor of Music | 2010[78] |
Wilfrid Laurier University | Honorary Doctor of Letters | 2010[79] |
University of British Columbia | Honorary Doctor of Letters | 2012[80][81] |
Vancouver Island University | Honorary Doctor of Laws | 2016[82] |
University of Lethbridge | Honorary Doctor of Laws | 2017[83] |
Dalhousie University | Honorary Doctor of Laws | 2018[84] |
University of Toronto | Honorary Doctor of Laws | 2019[85] |
Personal awards
Award | Year Awarded | Note |
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YWCA Prince Albert’s Women of Distinction Award | 1994[citation needed] | |
American Indian College Fund’s Lifetime Achievement Award | 1998[citation needed] | |
Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal | 2002[86] | |
Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal | 2012[86] | |
Juno Humanitarian Award | 2017[87] | Awarded as the Allan Waters Humanitarian Award |
Companion of the Order of Canada | 2019[88] | Promotion from Officer awarded in 1997[89][90] |
PARO Inaugural Women Voice Award | 2019[91] | |
Canadian Music Week Allan Slaight Humanitarian Spirit Award | 2020[92] | |
TIFF Jeff Skoll Award in Impact Media | 2022[93][94] |
Performance awards
Award | Year Awarded | Note |
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Billboard Magazine’s Best New Artist | 1964[citation needed] | |
Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Up Where We Belong" | 1983[4] | Joint winner with Jack Nitzsche and Will Jennings |
Canadian Juno Awards Hall of Fame Inductee | 1994[95] | |
Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards Lifetime Achievement Award | 2008[96] | Awards now known as Indigenous Music Awards |
Governor General's Performing Arts Award | 2010[97] | |
Polaris Music Prize | 2015[98][99] | for Power in the Blood |
Juno Award for Indigenous Music Album of the Year | 2018[100] | for Medicine Songs |
Indigenous Music Awards for Best Folk Album | 2018[101] | for Medicine Songs |
Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame Inductee | 2019[102][103][104] | |
Polaris Heritage Prize for It's My Way! | 2020[105] |
Other
- In 1979, the Supersisters trading card set was produced and distributed; one of the cards featured Sainte-Marie's name and picture.[106]
- Canada Post stamp of Sainte-Marie in 2021[107]
In 2023, Buffy Sainte-Marie's false claims to an Indigenous identity were revealed by
On 8 November 2023, the University of British Columbia First Nations House of Learning Leadership issued a statement explained that in light of the ancestry issues of Buffy Sainte-Marie that were planning on deciding on next steps regarding the hononary degree that had been awarded by UBC to Sainte-Marie in 2021.[108]
Personal life
In 1964, while on a trip to the
In 1968, Sainte-Marie married a
Although not a practitioner herself, Sainte-Marie became an active friend of the
Sainte-Marie applied for
Discography
Albums
Year | Album[47] | Peak chart positions | |||
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CAN [115] |
AUS [116] |
UK [117] |
US [118] | ||
1964 | It's My Way! | — | — | — | — |
1965 | Many a Mile | — | — | — | — |
1966 | Little Wheel Spin and Spin | — | — | — | 97 |
1967 | Fire & Fleet & Candlelight | — | — | — | 126 |
1968 | I'm Gonna Be a Country Girl Again | — | — | — | 171 |
1969 | Illuminations | — | — | — | — |
1971 | She Used to Wanna Be a Ballerina | — | 47 | — | 182 |
1972 | Moonshot | — | — | — | 134 |
1973 | Quiet Places | — | — | — | — |
1974 | Buffy | — | — | — | — |
1975 | Changing Woman | — | — | — | — |
1976 | Sweet America | — | — | — | — |
1992 | Coincidence and Likely Stories | 63 | — | 39 | — |
1996 | Up Where We Belong | — | — | — | — |
2008 | Running for the Drum | — | — | — | — |
2015 | Power in the Blood | — | — | — | — |
2017 | Medicine Songs | — | — | — | — |
Year | Album |
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1985 | Attla: A Motion Picture Soundtrack Album (with William Ackerman)[119] |
Compilation albums
Year | Album | Peak chart positions |
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US[118] | ||
1970 | The Best of Buffy Sainte-Marie | 142 |
1971 | The Best of Buffy Sainte-Marie Vol. 2 | — |
1974 | Native North American Child: An Odyssey | — |
1976 | Indian Girl (European release) | — |
A Golden Hour of the Best Of (UK release) | — | |
2003 | The Best of the Vanguard Years | — |
2008 | Buffy/Changing Woman/Sweet America | — |
2010 | The Pathfinder: Buried Treasures – The Mid-70's Recordings | — |
Singles
Year | Single[47] | Peak chart positions | Album | ||||
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CAN [120] |
CAN AC [121] |
AUS [116] |
UK
[117] |
US [122] | |||
1965 | "Until It's Time for You to Go" | — | — | — | — | — | Many a Mile |
1970 | "The Circle Game" | 76 | — | 83 | — | 109 | Fire & Fleet & Candlelight |
1971 | "Soldier Blue" | — | — | — | 7 | — | She Used to Wanna Be a Ballerina |
"I'm Gonna Be a Country Girl Again" | 86 | — | — | 34 | 98 | I'm Gonna Be a Country Girl Again | |
1972 | "Mister Can't You See" | 21 | — | 70 | — | 38 | Moonshot |
"He's an Indian Cowboy in the Rodeo" | — | — | — | — | 98 | ||
1973 | "I Wanna Hold Your Hand Forever"[123] | — | — | — | — | — | N/A |
1974 | "Waves" | — | 27 | — | — | — | Buffy |
1992 | "The Big Ones Get Away" | 24 | 14 | — | 39 | — | Coincidence & Likely Stories |
"Fallen Angels" | 50 | 26 | — | 57 | — | ||
1996 | "Until It's Time for You to Go" | — | 54 | — | — | — | Up Where We Belong |
2008 | "No No Keshagesh" | — | — | — | — | — | Running for the Drum |
2017 | "You Got to Run (Spirit of the Wind)" (featuring Tanya Tagaq) |
— | — | — | — | — | Medicine Songs |
Soundtrack appearances
Year | Song(s) | Album |
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1970 | "Dyed, Dead, Red" and "Hashishin" with Ry Cooder | Performance |
2019 | "The Circle Game" | Once Upon A Time In Hollywood |
See also
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It is believed that Buffy Sainte-Marie was born in 1941 on the Piapot First Nation reserve in Saskatchewan, and taken from her biological parents when she was two or three. She was adopted by a visibly white couple in Massachusetts, though her adoptive mother, Winifred, self-identified as part Mi'kmaq. Sainte-Marie's experience of being adopted out of her culture and placed in a non-Indigenous family by child welfare services is an all-too-familiar story in Canada. This practice was later dubbed the Sixties Scoop, referring to the decade in which it was most prevalent (though it had gone on well before the 1960s and would go on for decades to come).
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Further reading
- Bataille, Gretchen; Lisa, Laurie (2005). Native American women: a biographical dictionary (eBook : Document : Biography: English : Second ed.). New York : Taylor & Francis e-Library. OCLC 909403141.
- British Film Institute (1985), Ellis, Mundy (ed.), BFI Film and Television Yearbook 85, Concert Publications, ISBN 0851701833
- Sheward, David (1997), The Big Book of Show Business Awards, Billboard Books, ISBN 0-8230-7630-X
- Whitburn, Joel (2009), Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles, 1955–2008, Record Research, ISBN 978-0898201802
External links
- Official website
- Buffy Sainte-Marie at AllMusic
- Investigating Buffy Sainte-Marie's claims to Indigenous ancestry - The Fifth Estate on YouTube
- Short documentary Buffy (2010) at the National Film Board of Canada
- Article at The Canadian Encyclopedia
- Legendary Native American Singer-Songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie – video report by Democracy Now!
- Buffy Sainte-Marie discography at Discogs
- Buffy Sainte-Marie at IMDb
- Buffy Sainte-Marie discography at MusicBrainz
- Buffy Sainte-Marie interviewed on the Pop Chronicles (1969)