Indigenous group wants Buffy Sainte-Marie to lose 2018 Juno over ancestry doubts Oct 30, 2023 | 10:50 AMThe Indigenous Women’s Collective is calling for Buffy Sainte-Marie to lose her 2018 Juno Award for Indigenous album of the year, after a CBC story raised doubts about the singer’s ancestry. The collective says in a statement that it has reviewed the story and believes Sainte-Marie deceived the public about her origin. It says the deception allowed her to benefit from a false narrative that misled thousands of Indigenous people. CBC obtained Sainte-Marie’s birth certificate, which says she was born in 1941 in Stoneham, Mass., to Albert and Winifred Sainte-Marie.
