Buffy Sainte-Marie

Buffy Sainte-Marie (born February 20, 1941, Stoneham, Massachusetts, U.S.) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, political activist, and visual artist known especially for her use of music to promote awareness of issues affecting Native Americans. Since the early 1960s Sainte-Marie has claimed to have Indigenous ancestry and to have been born on the Piapot Reserve near Craven, Saskatchewan, Canada, but a 2023 episode of The Fifth Estate, a long-running investigative TV program on the Canadian Broadcasting...