Indian Faker

Canada finally realizes she's a fake:

Sainte-Marie, who won an Academy Award in 1982 for co-writing the soundtrack song Up Where We Belong, had received the Canadian honor in 1997. But over the weekend, the Canadian government rescinded the award in a curt notice published on the Canada Gazette. In his message, Secretary General of the Order of Canada Ken MacKillop wrote, “Notice is hereby given that the appointment of Buffy Sainte-Marie to the Order of Canada was terminated by Ordinance signed by the Governor General [Mary Simon] on January 3, 2025.” Sainte-Marie has made a 60-year career out of claims of Native heritage even as evidence continued to suggest she was born to a white family in the US. An extensive 2023 expose of her false claims stirred the controversy to a high pitch by following all the evidence that seemed to prove she has been peddling false claims for decades. The Universal Soldier and Now That the Buffalo’s Gone singer has made a string of claims over the years of being related to several different native tribes, but mostly claims her mother was a Cree Indian. Despite the Cree claim, she has also claimed at various times to have Algonquin and Mi’kmaq tribal heritage.

Now she's just another cultural appropriator...