Singer Buffy Sainte-Marie stripped of the Order of Canada.

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Buffy Sainte-Marie's life was based on a lie. She claimed to be a Cree Indian from Saskatchewan. She was celebrated as perhaps Canada's best folk singer. She won numerous Juno Awards, and Indigenous Awards. She was named to the Order of Canada, and celebrated throughout North America.

There was only one small problem.....she lived a lie.

Buffy Sainte-Marie was not born in Canada. Beverley Jean Santamaria, her real name, was born in suburban Boston, MA in 1941. She has no Ingenious ancestry. She is italian-American. In 2023, the CBC show "The Fifth Estate" discovered he ruse, and now she will many of her awards will be rescinded. 

Edited February 8 by DUI_Offender

[Radiorum]

The Indigenous community is feeling hurt and betrayed.

I wonder if Sainte-Marie's motivations matter? Did she do it only for her career? Or did she feel an affiliation with the Indigenous community?

But in the end, no-one likes to be lied to, especially on this scale.

[Moonlight Graham]

She's Italian LOL. 

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6 hours ago, Radiorum said:

The Indigenous community is feeling hurt and betrayed.

I wonder if Sainte-Marie's motivations matter? Did she do it only for her career? Or did she feel an affiliation with the Indigenous community?

But in the end, no-one likes to be lied to, especially on this scale.

From watching the 5th estate documentary, I was convinced Sainte-Marie had either mental health problems, or a personality disorder. The fact that she abandoned her family for good, claimed she was an Aboriginal from a different country, and threatening her brother legally into silence, with false child molestation accusations, was horrid.

What is especially disheartening, is she made no effort to be honest when presented with the Order of Canada, and numerous Indigenous Lifetime Awards, when she was clearly ineligible for either, as a Caucasian American woman.