Buffy Sainte-Marie

How do you feel about Buffy Sainte-Marie’s Order of Canada being rescinded?

BSM is an 83yo acclaimed singer songwriter who won many awards over the years. She claimed Canadian indigenous ancestry which was proven false by a CBC investigation

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swirlie · 31-35

She has always claimed to be a Canadian Native Indian, but as it turns out, she was born as a white non-Native in the USA and then immigrated to Canada after being adopted by an Indigenous family in Canada. She then lived her life in an Indigenous northern community, but which does NOT make her an Indigenous person as she has otherwise claimed to be!

She had her Order of Canada award rescinded because the award was based on her being Indigenous, it was not based on her being a singer songwriter.