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Oscar-winning singer is sensationally stripped of the Order of Canada honor after 'lying about her heritage'
dailymail ^ | 2/9/2025 | NOA HALFF FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

Posted on 02/09/2025 12:05:10 PM PST by RummyChick

Legendary singer Buffy Sainte-Marie has been sensationally stripped of her honors title after allegedly 'lying about her heritage.'

The 83-year-old Oscar-winning singer has been stripped of her prestigious Order of Canada following explosive claims she fabricated her Indigenous heritage.

The Order of Canada - bestowed upon more than 7,600 people since 1967 - represents the highest of recognition for 'extraordinary contributions to the nation.'

The star, who won an Academy Award for co-writing 'Up Where We Belong,' had been awarded the Order of Canada in 1997 for her supposed work championing Indigenous causes.

The decision, quietly published in Canada Gazette on Saturday, comes after 2023's shocking investigation revealed the singer may have built her entire career on deception.

A notice by Secretary General of the Order of Canada, Ken MacKillop, reads: '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.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: academyaward; buffysaintemarie; buffystemarie; canada; governorgeneral; indianfaker; kenmackillop; marysimon; orderofcanada; wannabeindians
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1 posted on 02/09/2025 12:05:10 PM PST by RummyChick
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To: RummyChick

She’s 83 and they’re doing this to her? Is it really necessary to humiliate someone in their finals days?


2 posted on 02/09/2025 12:06:36 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: RummyChick

And yet America is stuck with Lieawatha.


3 posted on 02/09/2025 12:06:48 PM PST by TXBlair (We will not forget Benghazi.)
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To: RummyChick

But she has high cheekbones!


4 posted on 02/09/2025 12:06:50 PM PST by broken_clock (Go Trump! Prayers answered!)
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To: BenLurkin

final days


5 posted on 02/09/2025 12:06:52 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: RummyChick

Would she have been awarded the Order of Canada had she not misrepresented her heritage? If not, then The Order of Canada is racist.


6 posted on 02/09/2025 12:09:48 PM PST by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: RummyChick

In America they elect you to the Senate.


7 posted on 02/09/2025 12:09:49 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: BenLurkin
this was her in 2023. Looks pretty good but could have used a facial software program to make her look better.

8 posted on 02/09/2025 12:09:59 PM PST by RummyChick
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To: RummyChick

Good! Born in the USA to a father of Italian ancestry and a mother of English ancestry. Her claim was fake and actual American Indian artists were upset that she received that award.


9 posted on 02/09/2025 12:11:23 PM PST by quilterdebbie (We will endeavor to persevere!)
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To: BenLurkin

Canadian natives are absolutely angry about what she did.


10 posted on 02/09/2025 12:12:25 PM PST by Jonty30 (Groundhogs don't falsify their predictions for grant money, whereas climate scientists do. )
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To: BenLurkin

Yes, she started this scam almost 60 years ago and fought legal battles and made threats to her family when they tried to reveal the scam, she was deeply involved in defeating all the exposure over the decades and it finally caught up to her.

This was a long, long, long hustle, it isn’t that someone just exposed her recently at age 83.


11 posted on 02/09/2025 12:15:53 PM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: RummyChick
Buffy Ste. Marie wrote The Universal Soldier, which is one of the stupidest songs of all time, and one of my least favorite. It argues that if there were no soldiers, there would be no wars. But I love Jan & Dean's answer song, The Universal Coward (1965)
12 posted on 02/09/2025 12:17:54 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: RummyChick

Leftists sure are hard to figure out.

It’s perfectly okay for a man to pretend to be a woman.
But it’s not okay for a non-Indian to pretend to be an Indian.
🤔


13 posted on 02/09/2025 12:19:42 PM PST by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again.)
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To: RummyChick

Man, she sure looks like an Indian!


14 posted on 02/09/2025 12:20:48 PM PST by Bartholomew Roberts
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To: RummyChick

Maybe let sleeping dogs lie, but she is another in a line of faux Indians. Elizabeth Warren, Ward Churchill, Iron Eyes Cody. Her exposure as a fraud is sufficient punishment.


15 posted on 02/09/2025 12:21:56 PM PST by twister881
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To: BenLurkin

Her relatives, notably her brother (a commercial pilot, I think), in the ‘60s and ‘70s explained that the family was European, but was bullied or paid off to shut up. Not sure why her actual background wasn’t acknowledged until a couple years ago.


16 posted on 02/09/2025 12:27:15 PM PST by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: twister881
Take off his wig and he could be on The Sopranos

17 posted on 02/09/2025 12:27:38 PM PST by RummyChick
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To: RummyChick

Or Star Trek


18 posted on 02/09/2025 12:28:47 PM PST by AF_Blue ("America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, bad ass speed." - Eleanor Roosevelt, 1936)
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To: RummyChick

Too late.She has already reaped the benefits of pretending to be an Indian. She made her money decades ago.


19 posted on 02/09/2025 12:29:53 PM PST by lee martell
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To: RummyChick

It wasn’t for use in her dating profile.


20 posted on 02/09/2025 12:29:59 PM PST by alternatives?
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