History Music / BuffySainteMarie

In late 2023 her story, unfortunately, her story got an unexpected turn, as investigation by CBC News proved that Sainte-Marie was born in Stoneham, Massachusetts to her white parents, Albert and Winifred Santamaria, and her story of being adopted Cree is completely fabricated.

* LastNoteNightmare: "Universal Soldier" has a fairly pleasant melody most of the way through, although the antiwar message is obvious. Then it's driven home when the last line ("This is not the way we put an end to war") drops into a minor key.

Taken from her Cree parents due to a Canadian government policy called the "Sixties Scoop" (wherein Native children were taken from their parents for adoption by white families, Sainte-Marie was adopted by an American couple of white and possible Mi'kmaq ancestry (her mother self-identified as being of Mi'kmaq descent) and raised in Massachusetts and Maine. She took up the piano as a child and began composing songs on guitar by the time she was a teenager. She would attend the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where she studied philosophy and education and received a bachelor’s degree in 1962. Sainte-Marie, meanwhile, began performing her songs in coffeehouses during her college years, and after graduation she moved to New York City to take part in the Greenwich Village folk scene.

--> "He's A Keeper Of The Fire"

Her music career would unfortunately decline in the 70s, however, as she would champion various political causes such as the American Indian Movement and would become blacklisted by the Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon administrations, which severely limited her ability to receive radio airplay and secure performance engagements. Despite this, she was still critically acclaimed and very active in the Native American community. Having founded the Nihewan Foundation for American Indian Education (later renamed the Nihewan Foundation for Native American Education) in 1969 and would continue releasing records up until 1976, after which she would go on hiatus in order to take care of her son and [[SheAlsoDid star in]] ''Series/SesameStreet'' [[SheAlsoDid in order to raise awareness of the presence and vibrancy of Native American cultures in contemporary society]].

* AddictionSong: "Cod'ine". The narrator was taught at a young age about the dangers of alcohol, but never learned about opiates. Now addicted to codine, they warn the listener to avoid the dealers and stores who push it.

Orphaned as an infant in Canada when her mother, a Cree woman, died in an automobile accident, Sainte-Marie was adopted by an American couple of Mi'kmaq ancestry and raised in Massachusetts and Maine. She took up the piano as a child and began composing songs on guitar by the time she was a teenager. She would attend the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where she studied philosophy and education and received a bachelor’s degree in 1962. Sainte-Marie, meanwhile, began performing her songs in coffeehouses during her college years, and after graduation she moved to New York City to take part in the Greenwich Village folk scene.

* Protest Song:

* SesameStreetCred: After guest-starring in one 1975 episode, Buffy was a regular cast member on Series/SesameStreet from 1976 to 1981. Notably, she breast-fed her son in a 1977 episode, in what is believed to be the first depiction of breastfeeding on American tv.

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* ''Illuminations'' (1969)

* ''Medicine Songs'' (2017)