Buffy Sainte-Marie
Vocals, Musical Artist
1941 –
Who is Buffy Sainte-Marie?
Buffy Sainte-Marie, OC is a Canadian-American Cree singer-songwriter, musician, composer, visual artist, educator, pacifist, and social activist. Throughout her career in all of these areas, her work has focused on issues of Indigenous peoples of the Americas. Her singing and writing repertoire also includes subjects of love, war, religion, and mysticism.
She founded the Cradleboard Teaching Project, an educational curriculum devoted to better understanding Native Americans. She has won recognition and many awards and honours for both her music and her work in education and social activism.
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- Born
- Feb 20, 1941
Piapot - Also known as
- Buffy Sainte Marie
- Buffy Saint-Marie
- Sainte-Marie, Buffy
- Beverly Sainte-Marie
- Buffy Ste. Marie
- Buffy Sainte-Marie, OC
- Parents
- Spouses
- Jack Nitzsche
(1982/03/19 - 2000/08/25) - Sheldon Peters Wolfchild
(1975 - ) - Dewain Bugbee
(1968 - 1971) - Chuck Wilson
(1993 - )
- Jack Nitzsche
- Children
- Ethnicity
- First Nations
- Indigenous peoples of the Americas
- Cree
- Nationality
- Canada
- Profession
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on July 23, 2013
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