Canadians are so racist people pretend to be Indians.
A Canadian news documentary airing at the end of the week focuses on the Native identity claims of one of the most celebrated performers in entertainment history.
Titled “Making an Icon,” the description for the upcoming episode of The Fifth Estate on CBC News does not mention the name of the subject. But multiple Native people who took part in the documentary process told Indianz.Com that it’s about Buffy Sainte-Marie, whose decades-long career in music, television and education rests on her claim of being Cree from the Piapot Cree Nation, one of the First Nations in the province of Saskatchewan.
“An icon’s claims to Indigenous ancestry are being called into question by family members and an investigation that included genealogical documentation, historical research and personal accounts,” the description for the October 27 episode reads.
The documentary comes at a defining time for a performer whose life has been filled with groundbreaking moments. On August 3, Sainte-Marie, who turned 82 earlier this year, surprised her followers by declaring her “retirement from live performance. The announcement cited “travel-induced health concerns and performance-inhibiting physical challenges” facing the aging musician. […]
But the Native people who participated in CBC’s documentary process believe Sainte-Marie’s decision to step away from the spotlight is directly connected to the questions about her First Nations identity. According to the sources, work on the hour-long episode began more than a year ago and it grew to include interviews with individuals in the United States, where the performer was raised following claims to have been born in Canada and adopted out of Piapot.
Due to the lengthy production time associated with the CBC project, Sainte-Marie would have been well aware of the nature of the documentary — especially of its potential to unravel a career that began in the 1960s, the people said. The award-winning singer and songwriter has largely remained silent about her retirement decision, with no significant interviews appearing in mainstream media since her announcement more than two months ago.
“But, but, but… I do have kind of high cheekbones. and gramma thought I might have some native blood.”
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That was Lieawatha’s (Elizabeth Warren) spiel when she was exposed as having something like 1/1024, or even less, of native DNA. Her native DNA was pretty much not statistically any different from zero, IIRC.
Put Ste. Marie and Warren side by side. I have no trouble believing Ste. Marie has Indian blood but DNA would tell the tale as it did with Warren.
Maybe she’s Italian like this guy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7OHG7tHrNM
Ste Marie does have a better case than Fauxcahontas, and Reader, on the Friday Tips thread, had a link to where she had a far better response than Warren.
Yeah, DNA testing would be helpful. I wonder if she has done that and didn’t like the results? If she hasn’t had her DNA analyzed, why not?
I suppose we’ll find out a lot more soon enough.
Eagerly looking forward to Buffy’s tasty entry to the revised edition of the POW Wow Chow Cookbook.
You mean that one page book?
My favourite is sauteed weasel nuts.
Source? Whose??
I suspect what passes for Oral Lore is fiction that we’re ordered to believe. I suppose I shouldn’t laugh but I did.
I had never thought for one moment to doubt Buffy’s Indian background, she does look native, very native (is that a racist thing to say?). So, The Fifth Estate does a whole documentary and does not even mention who the subject of the investigation is? What kind of dumb ass reporting is that?
C’mon, she doesn’t look anything like Grey Owl.
Oh. Yeah, you’re right…
However like all claimants, that super sciencey DNA stuff will work on her.
CBC! C’mon C-NB
The motherf—in corp hasn’t dealt with the truth for decades, if ever.
I mean what do you expect for a paltry $2 billion?
If St Marie is not mentioned in the documentary, then we’ll never really know if it’s about her, or if it’s just air time. I would bet a lot of money that Buffy St. Marie is of indigenous origin. Whether she was born in Saskatchewan, and raised in Maine, or born in South Dakota and raised in Fort Qu’Appelle, natives knew no borders. She was an icon in the 70’s, and in my books, she’s still an icon.
Signed:
Old White Man
She’s an effing Wop. Beverly Santamaria! Is everyone an effing liar? We were always told classification by race is bullshit. Guess what? It is bullshit. Besides Cree only have one tune. We should have known better.
” We were always told classification by race is bullshit. Guess what? It is bullshit.”
Bingo. You win the thread. It is indeed complete BS, as biologically race is a myth. And Morgan Freeman agrees with you. Here he is 20 years ago utterly silencing that race-baiting scum Mike Wallace. Enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeixtYS-P3s
Does this mean that the “Hiya Hiya” /repeat song is the only musical number produced by a continent of “first nations” for eternity?
Or did they steal that whole thing from a cheesy western movie?
“Hi, I’m a Native woman”
“Good to know, just one final test here, let us scrape your cheek here. Science, you know”.
So far we have fake pandemics followed by fake vaccines, fake news, fake global warming and now we have fake Indians, fake women (who are actually men) and a cast of politicians who are all liars and are corrupt narcissists. We have never been governed by a worse gang of thieves.
How are we supposed react to all this bullshit.
Laugh them to scorn
You left out fake graves at Residential Schools.
The documentary has yet to be shown, but it must be brutally difficult to determine the ancestry of someone who was adopted and is now 81 years old. Interviewing people can’t help much. Those with real knowledge of her origins are all dead or very old.
Pretty simply when Buffy’s un-adopted sister is a DNA match to Buffy’s son. There was no adoption.
Buffy’s son agreed to be DNA analyzed? Have to wait for the documentary.
Read the link. Already done.
Saskatchewan does have records of adoptions going back to 1922…
“Officer of the Order of Canada (1997)” and 3 dozen other honours and honourary degrees – And no-one determined she had no links to Canada? Just another American grifter.
Another Sacheen Littlefeather
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/oct/24/sacheen-littlefeather-faked-native-american-ancestry-say-family
I guess it’s a good career move to become a pretend Indian … with the Indian-sounding name and long tresses done up in beads and whatnot
Buffy Ste. Marie was part Indian on her mother’s side. Early in her singing career she didn’t look very Indian. In later life she died her hair deep black and darkened her skin plus her nose and eyes might have had work. She looks more Indian than most of the Indians I know. In her younger days she sure didn’t. Mind you Robbie Robertson of The Band was half Iroquois but didn’t look very Indian until his old age.
Heh.
Maybe she is sitting back,waiting for CBC to slander her,so she can sue them.
If she has DNA evidence,CBC will be toast.
Her agent can blackmail them into playing her songs in endless loop.
Death to CBC.
Two words: Ancestry DNA.
Her sister and her son are related on Ancestry DNA, hence the whole discussion.
I don’t get it. I have a ton of Indian students and… oh, wait!
Canada’s Version of Elizabeth Warren is Kateri Champagne Jourdain, MNA, and the first female indigenous cabinet minister in Quebec. The only problem is…she ain’t.
I don’t recall anything Buffy has done to demean, insult, or embarrass natives.
To me I could not give a hot damn if she’s native or not.
If the CBC is interested in uncovering frauds they can do Justin and Sophie next.
Making money by pretending you are something you are not is fraud.
That’s pretty well my point of view too.
This is just a case of CBC virtue signalling to the Indians and giving credibility to their “special status”… and all the other racist nonsense that spills forth from the romantic drivel of “diversity”.
Buffy identifies as Indian/native/first nation. “Identify” is the new joker card: everyone can be anything and everything.
But if the above is true, then Indian status must be eliminated from Canadian laws. If anyone can be Indian, no one is truly Indian.
“But if the above is true, then Indian status must be eliminated from Canadian laws.”
Even if it isn’t true, the special status of Indians – and any/all other groups – should be eliminated. It’ll never happen, but we can dream on….
She has now released what a lot of us already knew. She knows very little her about ancestry. I’m not a fan of her songs, however I am a fan of people who rise above the shortcomings of their lives. Why would anyone ridicule her? We don’t ridicule Pierre Poilievre because he’s an adopted boy!! By we I refer to members of the CPC.
Buffy St. Marie is not adopted. Her birth was registered in Massachusetts to her parents. She is genetically related to her sister. She is an effing liar. She played on her mother’s family legend of some Indian ancestry like Senator Pocahontas Warren. 60 years ago she didn’t even look Indian.
So, if I’m following this correctly, instead of having been born Cree and adopted and raised by a mixed, part-Micmac family, she was apparently actually born into a mixed, part-Micmac family, and then acquired an affection for the Cree and was naturalized by them. Under truth in packaging laws, this might earn her a conviction, but in substance isn’t she just about as native genetically, and every bit as native culturally, either way? What actually changes?
I mean, telling me Buffy Sainte-Marie isn’t Cree is like telling me Sammy Davis Jr. isn’t Jewish. It provokes scepticism.