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Buffy Sainte-Marie (born Beverly Sainte-Marie, February 20, 1941) is an Academy Award-winning Canadian First Nations musician, composer, visual artist, educator and social activist.
"Artists are the people who are able to resist the school system fragmenting us because it's convenient to do so, when the art teacher is in competition with the music teacher, and all creativity is in competition with the 'real' curriculum."

Personal life

Buffy Sainte-Marie was born on the Piapot Cree reserve in the Qu'Appelle valley, Saskatchewan. She was orphaned and later adopted and grew up in Maine and Massachusetts with parents Albert and Winifred Sainte-Marie who were related to her biological parents. From the University of Massachusetts she holds degrees in teaching and Oriental Philosophy graduating in the top ten of her class
   In 1968 she married surfing teacher Dewain Bugbee of Hawaii. They divorced in 1971. She married Sheldon Wolfchild from Minnesota in 1975, and they've a son, Dakota "Cody" Starblanket Wolfchild. She reportedly married Jack Nitzsche in the early 1980s. Sainte-Marie has been in a committed relationship with Hawaiian Chuck Wilson since 1993, ("A blond boy raised in a tan community" as Sainte-Marie says)..
   She became an active friend of the Bahá'í Faith by the mid-1970s when she's said to have appeared in the 1973 Third National Baha’i Youth Conference at the Oklahoma State Fairgrounds, Oklahoma City, OK, with several artists including Seals & Crofts and has continued to appear at concerts, conferences and conventions of that religion since then. In 1992 Sainte-Marie appeared in the musical event prelude to the Bahá'í World Congress; a double concert "Live Unity: The Sound of the World" in 1992 with video broadcast and documentary. In the video documentary of the event Sainte-Marie is seen on the Dini Petty Show explaining the Bahá'í Faith teaching of Progressive Revelation.
   In 1996 she received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Regina. In 2007 she received an honorary Doctor of Letters from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Early career

Sainte-Marie played piano and guitar, self-taught, in her childhood and teen years. In college some of her songs, "Ananias", the Indian lament, "Now That the Buffalo's Gone" and "Mayoo Sto Hoon" (in Hindi) were already in her repertoire.. Also in 1963 Sainte-Marie witnessed wounded soldiers returning from Vietnam at a time when the U.S. government was denying involvement - this inspired her protest song "Universal Soldier" which was released on her debut album, It’s My Way on Vanguard Records in 1964, and later became a hit for Donovan. She was subsequently named Billboard Magazine's Best New Artist.
   In 1967, Sainte-Marie released the album Fire and Fleet and Candlelight, which contained her interpretation of the traditional song "Lyke Wake Dirge". Sainte-Marie's other well-known songs include "Mister Can't You See," (a Top 40 U.S. hit in 1972); "He's an Indian Cowboy in the Rodeo"; and the theme song of the popular movie Soldier Blue. Perhaps her first appearance on TV was as herself on To Tell the Truth in January 1966.. She also appeared on Pete Seeger's Rainbow Quest with Pete Seeger in 1965 and several Canadian Television productions from the 1960s through to the 1990s and Macintosh computers as early as 1981 to record her music and later some of her visual art.
   In 2000, Sainte-Marie gave the commencement address at Haskell Indian Nations University. In 2002 she sang at the Kennedy Space Center for Chicasaw Commander John Herrington, the first Native American astronaut. In 2003 she became a spokesperson for the UNESCO Associated Schools Project Network in Canada.
   In 2004, a track written and performed by her and entitled "Lazarus" was sampled by Hip Hop producer Kanye West and performed by Cam'Ron and Jim Jones of The Diplomats. The track is called "Dead or Alive". In June 2007, Sainte-Marie made a rare United States appearance at the Clearwater Festival in Croton-on-Hudson, NY.

Censorship

Sainte-Marie has claimed that she was blacklisted and that she, along with other Native Americans in the Red Power movements, was put out of business in the 1970s.
   "I found out 10 years later, in the 1980s, that [President] Lyndon B. Johnson had been writing letters on White House stationery praising radio stations for suppressing my music," Sainte-Marie said in a 1999 interview with Indian Country Today at Dine' College... "In the 1970s, not only was the protest movement put out of business, but the Native American movement was attacked."
   Additionally, she claims that in the United States, her records were disappearing. According to her, thousands of people at concerts wanted records, and although the distributor claimed that the records had been shipped, no one seemed to know where they were.
   Said Sainte-Marie, "I was put out of business in the United States."

Awards and Honors

France named Buffy Sainte-Marie Best International Artist of 1993. That same year, she was selected by the United Nations to proclaim officially the International Year of Indigenous Peoples.
   Sainte-Marie was inducted into the Juno Hall of Fame for her life-long contribution to music in 1995 and won a Gemini Award in 1997 for the Canadian TV special Buffy Sainte-Marie: Up Where We Belong. This also marked the first time she'd performed her famous song to a live audience.
   She received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation in Canada in 1998, and was also made an Officer of the Order of Canada.
   In 1999, she received a star on Canada's Walk of Fame.

Discography

Albums

It's My Way!, 1964
Many a Mile, 1965
Little Wheel Spin and Spin, 1966 (US#97)
Fire & Fleet & Candlelight, 1967 (US#126)
I'm Gonna Be a Country Girl Again, 1968 (US#171)
Illuminations, 1969
Performance (film soundtrack) (1970)
The Best of Buffy Sainte-Marie, 1970 (US#142)
The Best of Buffy Sainte-Marie Vol.2, 1971
She Used to Wanna Be a Ballerina, 1971 (US#182)
Moonshot, 1972 (US#134)
Quiet Places, 1973
Native North American Child: An Odyssey, 1974
Buffy, 1974
Changing Woman, 1975
Sweet America, 1976
Coincidence and Likely Stories, 1992 (UK#39)
Up Where We Belong, 1996
The Best of the Vanguard Years, 2003
Live at Carnegie Hall, 2004

Singles

Year	Song	Chart positions		Album
Year	Song	U.S.	U.K.	Album
1971	"Soldier Blue"		7	She Used to Wanna Be a Ballerina
1971	"I'm Gonna Be A Country Girl Again"	98	34	I'm Gonna Be a Country Girl Again
1972	"Mister Can't You See"	38		Moonshot
1972	"He's An Indian Cowboy in the Rodeo"	98		Moonshot
1992	"The Big Ones Get Away"		39	Coincidence & Likely Stories
1992	"Fallen Angels"		57	Coincidence & Likely Stories

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