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.'
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She’s 83 and they’re doing this to her? Is it really necessary to humiliate someone in their finals days?
And yet America is stuck with Lieawatha.
But she has high cheekbones!
final days
Would she have been awarded the Order of Canada had she not misrepresented her heritage? If not, then The Order of Canada is racist.
In America they elect you to the Senate.
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.
Canadian natives are absolutely angry about what she did.
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.
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.
🤔
Man, she sure looks like an Indian!
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.
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.
Or Star Trek
Too late.She has already reaped the benefits of pretending to be an Indian. She made her money decades ago.
It wasn’t for use in her dating profile.
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