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

[RummyChick]

[BenLurkin]

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

[TXBlair]

And yet America is stuck with Lieawatha.

[broken_clock]

But she has high cheekbones!

[BenLurkin]

final days

[IYAS9YAS]

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

[E. Pluribus Unum]

In America they elect you to the Senate.

[RummyChick]

this was her in 2023. Looks pretty good but could have used a facial software program to make her look better.

[quilterdebbie]

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.

[Jonty30]

Canadian natives are absolutely angry about what she did.

[ansel12]

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.

[Fiji Hill]

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)

[Leaning Right]

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.
🤔

[Bartholomew Roberts]

Man, she sure looks like an Indian!

[twister881]

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.

[jjotto]

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.

[RummyChick]

Take off his wig and he could be on The Sopranos

[AF_Blue]

Or Star Trek

[lee martell]

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

[alternatives?]

It wasn’t for use in her dating profile.