Docs and Family Cast Doubt on Buffy Sainte-Marie’s Indigenous Ancestry

A Canadian documentary has unveiled evidence—including official documents and family interviews—that it says suggests singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie, widely celebrated as an indigenous icon, was born in Massachusetts to a white couple.

And the doc contains another bombshell—an allegation that the Oscar winner accused her older brother of sexual abuse because he told producer for Sesame Street that she was misrepresenting her family history and heritage.

CBC News reports that it obtained a birth certificate Sainte-Marie that shows she was born in 1941 in Stoneham, Massachusetts, and not in Canada to a Cree woman, as she has claimed. It says she and her parents were white.

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