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Title: Still Fakey After All These Years Folksinger (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
Post by: Sighlass on November 05, 2023, 07:08:32 am
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/11/still-fakey-after-all-these-years.php

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Folksinger Buffy Sainte-Marie got her start in the Greenwich Village scene and during the 1960s became an indigenous icon. In 1975 she showed up on “Sesame Street” proclaiming, “We want kids to understand that Indians exist. We really are real.” And as Buffy explained, “Cree Indians are my tribe, and we live in Canada.”  That nation showered Sainte-Marie with awards, made her a companion of the Order of Canada, and even put her on a postage stamp.

In 2019, St. Marie appeared at a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) music festival, where she complained about “moms who have such a pride in family, maybe patriotism and tradition,” before her performance of  “The Universal Soldier.” Behind the scenes, the CBC was busy checking birth records, newspaper accounts, and interviewing relatives. Last month, the CBC’s  6,000-plus-word report outed the soi disant Cree from Saskatchewan as Beverly Jean Santamaria, born in 1941 in Stoneham, Massachusetts, with no indigenous ancestry whatsoever.

So the singer PBS hailed last year as an “Oscar winning indigenous artist” turns out to be a fake, and her fakery was a major factor in her rise to stardom.

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Here is her first time on Sesame Street... where she lies over and over again about being a real Indian.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77xRC-5Q8uA
Title: Re: Still Fakey After All These Years Folksinger (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
Post by: Wingnut on November 05, 2023, 07:15:45 am
She was just ahead of her time.   :rolling:
Title: Re: Still Fakey After All These Years Folksinger (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
Post by: mountaineer on November 05, 2023, 12:09:12 pm
Bury both of their hearts at Wounded Knee.

(https://cdn.wccftech.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Elizabeth-Warren-740x494.jpg)
Title: Re: Still Fakey After All These Years Folksinger (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
Post by: jmyrlefuller on November 05, 2023, 10:50:56 pm
Here's the full CBC takedown, for those with some time on their hands:

https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/buffy-sainte-marie

But this is what you get when "equal protection" isn't applied equally. When tribal reserves are above the law, above any sort of oversight... the unscrupulous will seek to gain that advantage. (Where there should be no advantage.) Even worse, it's almost certainly a factor in the "missing and murdered indigenous women" trope, since human trafficking is a lot easier to pull off under the cover of sovereignty.
Title: Re: Still Fakey After All These Years Folksinger (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
Post by: Wingnut on November 05, 2023, 11:00:22 pm
She sure has all the physical characteristics of a native person.  Not sure what these people are trying to do or what their agenda is.  Personally I DGAF
Title: Re: Still Fakey After All These Years Folksinger (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
Post by: libertybele on November 05, 2023, 11:02:57 pm
???? I never heard of her.  :shrug:
Title: Re: Still Fakey After All These Years Folksinger (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
Post by: Smokin Joe on November 06, 2023, 06:41:53 am
Here's the full CBC takedown, for those with some time on their hands:

https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/buffy-sainte-marie

But this is what you get when "equal protection" isn't applied equally. When tribal reserves are above the law, above any sort of oversight... the unscrupulous will seek to gain that advantage. (Where there should be no advantage.) Even worse, it's almost certainly a factor in the "missing and murdered indigenous women" trope, since human trafficking is a lot easier to pull off under the cover of sovereignty.
It's easier to pull off when no one gives a damn, too. Once out of the Res, few white cops will spend much time looking for an Indian. Sad, but still true.
Title: Re: Still Fakey After All These Years Folksinger (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
Post by: jmyrlefuller on November 06, 2023, 09:02:38 pm
She sure has all the physical characteristics of a native person.  Not sure what these people are trying to do or what their agenda is.  Personally I DGAF
So did Cher.

But both were simply southern European. Armenian in Cher's case, Italian in Buffy's.
Title: Re: Still Fakey After All These Years Folksinger (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
Post by: jmyrlefuller on November 06, 2023, 09:05:04 pm
???? I never heard of her.  :shrug:
Here was her lone top-40 hit. Your basic folk protest singer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvbaovnOYyg
Title: Re: Still Fakey After All These Years Folksinger (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
Post by: andy58-in-nh on November 06, 2023, 09:42:36 pm
Bury both of their hearts at Wounded Knee.

(https://cdn.wccftech.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Elizabeth-Warren-740x494.jpg)

Slinging Bull meets Buffalo St. Marie.
Title: Re: Still Fakey After All These Years Folksinger (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
Post by: dfwgator on November 06, 2023, 10:12:09 pm
Here was her lone top-40 hit. Your basic folk protest singer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvbaovnOYyg


What the world needs now
Is another folk singer

Like I need a hole in my head

-Cracker
Title: Re: Still Fakey After All These Years Folksinger (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
Post by: Sighlass on November 07, 2023, 01:19:03 am
Well she all but wore the full chief headdress feathers for this performance...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU0fS0GA6Ek
Title: Re: Still Fakey After All These Years Folksinger (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
Post by: Sighlass on November 07, 2023, 02:57:51 am
In this documentary put out a week or so ago... It documents how when her blood brother started telling the truth about her, she used her law firm to silence him by threatening to say he molested her...

This woman was a grade A b*+ch who would not stop at anything to keep her secret.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMsqCWNCUc4
Title: Re: Still Fakey After All These Years Folksinger (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
Post by: mountaineer on November 16, 2023, 09:36:13 pm
https://twitter.com/BoSnerdley/status/1725144011587858580
Title: Re: Still Fakey After All These Years Folksinger (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
Post by: mountaineer on November 16, 2023, 10:20:18 pm
Just watched the CBC show. Wow, what a horrible person. Falsely claiming to be "indigenous" is bad enough, but alleging her brother molested her, too? Just outrageous.