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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Funny. Warren has never clarified whether she was talking about her upper cheek bones of lower one. Maybe there is more to her secret than meets the eye.
What makes this even more interesting is that the one, who has ceremonially stripped her of the award (namely the current Governor General, Mary Simon), is a bona-fide Indigenous Canadian. (Specifically, Ms. Simon is Inuit).
I wonder how Ms. Simon feels about this, personally?
He actually DID have Indian heritage.
Even though he was bald and had blue eyes.
Actual definition: "groups of people who lived in a place before colonization or other groups became dominant."
Given that dozens of waves of "natives" came over from Asia via the Bering Strait, with groups constantly dominating and genociding another before Europeans even arrived, who exactly now earns the term "indigenous"?
I've had that dream. I'm back in college and show up to class and find out we've got a huge test I didn't know about and I decide to leave before the prof arrives but I look down and I'm naked except for my jockey shorts and hope no one will notice me walking down the hall.
Then I can't find my car and start walking home and it gets dark and I get lost and wind up in a town I've never seen....
Humiliating.
I have some experience with this “indigenous”. I was on the Piapot Indian reservation in Saskatchewan in 1969, where “Buffy” said she was from. We visited with a family that the mother claimed she was Buffy’s sister. They had Buffy’s picture on the wall, and claimed she came to visit once in a while, but we never saw her there. The “sister” was a very meek and humble person, so I could see that she might have been manipulated.
She looks like an engine to me.
Haha! I remember that! Yep! Another faker!
Just like all those Journalists who got a Pulitzer, lying about Russia! Russia! Russia!
high cheek bones, just like Liawatha, so it must mean Indigenous ancestry
Me ask what Senator Grey Beaver thinkum on this.
It’s just that “cherokee” was cooler than “armenian” at the time.
With that smile she looks an awful lot like the former mascot of a certain baseball team in Cleveland.
Yes
The question now is will Sesame Street disavow her?
If she lied then she deserved it ... Misguided compassion is destructive and evil.
Similarly for the Left, it is not OK for a white person to present themselves in blackface.
But it is OK to them, for a male person to present themselves in womanface.
I think she should be interviewed on 60 Minutes, uncut, by Elizabeth Warren.
CBC news story, October 27, 2023 by By Geoff Leo, Roxanna Woloshyn and Linda Guerriero.
“She wasn’t born in Canada.… She’s clearly born in the United States,” said Heidi St. Marie, daughter of Sainte-Marie’s older brother, Alan. “She’s clearly not Indigenous or Native American.”
That claim is supported by documents obtained by CBC, including Sainte-Marie’s Stoneham, Mass., birth certificate. The investigation also shows that her account of her ancestry has been a shifting narrative, full of inconsistencies and inaccuracies.”
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What a shock. Someone born in the United States. Not like she was from Kenya.
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