Posted on 11/16/2023 4:04:14 AM PST by thegagline
Yeah. She has feathers in her hair, so that settles it.
It wasn’t her uncle like I thought, it was her brother.
“Around that time, Sainte-Marie’s brother, Alan, a commercial pilot based in Denver, was in the midst of a letter-writing campaign.
He was writing to newspapers and publishers that were printing his sister’s claim that she was Indigenous. Heidi St. Marie says she has these letters because Alan made carbon copies of important correspondence, a habit he picked up in the military.
“Buffy St. Marie was not born on a reservation…. She was born of Caucasian parents in Stoneham, Mass.,” he wrote to the Denver Post in May 1972.
“To associate her with the Indian and to accept her as his spokesman is wrong.”
(snip)
Alan told the producer he and Sainte-Marie were white and shared the same parents. St. Marie said her dad didn’t think much more about that call until Nov. 7, 1975, when a letter from a Los Angeles law firm arrived in his mailbox.
“This firm represents Buffy Sainte-Marie,” said the letter from a lawyer who had represented the likes of the Rolling Stones and the Beach Boys.
“We have been advised that you have without provocation disparaged and perhaps defamed Buffy and maliciously interfered with her employment opportunities,” the letter said. It said if he continued, Buffy would “spare no expense in pursuing any and all of her legal remedies.”
Inside the law firm’s letter was an envelope addressed to Alan — a handwritten letter from Sainte-Marie.
“Alan, you no doubt remember your continued sexual abuses to me throughout my childhood,” she wrote. “According to my memories and my childhood diaries, you are nothing but a child molester and a sadist.”
Then she made what appears to be a reference to Sesame Street.
“The guilt of it has induced you to try to hurt me through a children’s show,” she said. “If you ever try to hurt me again, I will explain the roots of your sickness to your employers and wife, and I will send the police after you.”
I heard her briefly in the 80s. That was enough. Ptooey.
Similar tribe as Iron Eyes Cody evidently.
Why do they have to dig up crap that happened over 50 years ago? I haven't heard of her in decades let alone ever hearing she was allegedly a native Canadian....
Perhaps someone could explain why it’s okay for a man to claim he’s a woman so he can win in his chosen sport but it’s not okay for someone to claim they’re an Indian so their mediocre vocal talent will get recognition?
That’s good enough for me!
If she lives in Canada and travels for a living, wonder what her passport says?
“She should get a DNA test, then she can see her history.”
My son’s MIL always claimed her grandmother was Native American ...until she had an Ancestry. com DNA test. Turns out she has a substantial amount of Spanish heritage but no Native American ancestry. She still claims her grandmother was Native American, wait for it, because of her high cheekbones.
So...wouldn’t that make trans-peoples “pretendian”.
Right? A DNA test would clear up the controversy pretty fast
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Gee, she sounds nice
There does seem to be something the Massachusetts (fire)water.
At least she looks Indian. Liz Warren not so much. 😏
Pretendian????
We’ll have to keep that word handy ... pretendian news....pretendian pResident Briben....etc., etc.
She does!
As much as a few of my cousins, who are!
More importantly, has she written a cookbook documenting the cuisine of her nomadic brethren?
High cheekbones strike again!!
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