Buffy Sainte-Marie Indigenous roots controversy rocks Canada First Nations

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/02/buffy-sainte-marie-documentary-controversy-indigenous-canada

 

The CBC, which previously outlined its criteria for reporting “pretendian” stories, said it reached out to members of the Piapot family, but received no response. The CBC also says it reached out to the acting chief of Piapot First Nation to arrange a visit to the community, but the chief declined. The broadcaster added it “does not dispute the Piapot family adopted Buffy Sainte-Marie as an adult, nor does it dispute the validity of that traditional adoption”.

Over the weekend, the Indigenous Women’s Collective said in a statement that after weighing the claims against Sainte-Marie, it concluded the singer had engaged in a “great deception” that allowed her to benefit from a “very deliberate and false narrative that misled thousands of Indigenous youth, adults, and most tragically, Indigenous survivors of colonial harm”.

The group singled out Sainte-Marie’s previous statements that she was a survivor of the Sixties Scoop – a notorious period in Canadian history in which Indigenous children were forcibly taken from their homes and sent to live with white families. While the CBC documentary notes the Scoop began a decade after Sainte-Marie was born, adoptions into white families still took place.

The Indigenous Women’s Collective also called for Sainte-Marie to be stripped of her 2018 Indigenous Album of the Year award at the Junos, a prestigious Canadian music award show.

 

Of course nothing new here:

 

[TBoneTX 45,468]

The only stoopider female name than Buffy is Muffy.

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

 

The long read 

 

To be fair she was born Beverley, seemingly part Italian and part English.

 

[TBoneTX 45,468]

Noted.

The only stoopider female nickname than Buffy is Muffy.

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14 hours ago, Boiler said:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/02/buffy-sainte-marie-documentary-controversy-indigenous-canada

 

The CBC, which previously outlined its criteria for reporting “pretendian” stories, said it reached out to members of the Piapot family, but received no response. The CBC also says it reached out to the acting chief of Piapot First Nation to arrange a visit to the community, but the chief declined. The broadcaster added it “does not dispute the Piapot family adopted Buffy Sainte-Marie as an adult, nor does it dispute the validity of that traditional adoption”.

Over the weekend, the Indigenous Women’s Collective said in a statement that after weighing the claims against Sainte-Marie, it concluded the singer had engaged in a “great deception” that allowed her to benefit from a “very deliberate and false narrative that misled thousands of Indigenous youth, adults, and most tragically, Indigenous survivors of colonial harm”.

The group singled out Sainte-Marie’s previous statements that she was a survivor of the Sixties Scoop – a notorious period in Canadian history in which Indigenous children were forcibly taken from their homes and sent to live with white families. While the CBC documentary notes the Scoop began a decade after Sainte-Marie was born, adoptions into white families still took place.

The Indigenous Women’s Collective also called for Sainte-Marie to be stripped of her 2018 Indigenous Album of the Year award at the Junos, a prestigious Canadian music award show.

 

Of course nothing new here:

 

Wait, this is Canada where someone can go to prison for misgendering another that simply chooses a different gender that day.  If one can identify their genders fluidly, why not their race or ethnicity?

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5 minutes ago, Dashinka said:

Wait, this is Canada where someone can go to prison for misgendering another that simply chooses a different gender that day.  If one can identify their genders fluidly, why not their race or ethnicity?

or species....

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She was born in the US and one thing I did not see is what Passport she has, or did she naturalise in Canada. I always thought she was Canadian.

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LOL! Must admit I've not really heard of her.. I thought to myself she's got to be from the Jersey Shore with that much spray tan. And she says she was born in 1941?? No way!

 

15 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

The only stoopider female name than Buffy is Muffy.

 

The best and only Buffy.

 

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1 minute ago, yuna628 said:

The best and only Buffy.

 

Ain't that the truth!!!!  I never missed an episode back in the day.  

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9 hours ago, Crazy Cat said:

Ain't that the truth!!!!  I never missed an episode back in the day.  

We have just arrived here. I was watching Buffy with German synchronisation previous to that. And my dad, every Monday: “ Wait, didn’t we watch that movie last week? “ Every Monday.