Buffy Sainte-Marie, wearing a shining dress and long necklace, was led on the stage by a group of Indigenous people in traditional regalia after she was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1995.
Her iconic dark hair and fringe hung long as she told the crowd about the importance of artists from remote communities.
It’s interesting that many in the media defended Bluffy.
Prominent scholar and former judge Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond has been dropped from the Order of Canada.
In a notice in Saturday’s Canada Gazette, Rideau Hall announced that, in response to Turpel-Lafond’s own request, her membership in the Order of Canada has been terminated. That request was subsequently approved by Governor General Mary Simon through an ordinance signed on Sept. 26, 2023.
The termination takes effect Saturday.
The Fifth Estate’s exposé of Buffy Sainte-Marie’s real identity as an Italian- and English-American from suburban Massachusetts rather than an indigenous person abducted from a Saskatchewan reservation rates awards in the same way Buffy Sainte-Marie did not.
That is to say, people who lie about their background to curry favor with panels, committees, and judges, who in turn lie about honoring talent when they really award politics or race or gender identity, do not deserve their accolades, and the people who expose frauds rate praise but never receive it.
Ontario twin sisters and their mother were on the court docket in Iqaluit Monday, facing two charges each of fraud over $5,000 in one of the first cases in Canada of criminal charges for faking an Indigenous identity.
Nadya and Amira Gill, 25, and their mother Karima Manji had Ontario lawyers appear remotely on their behalf.
Lucius Septimius Severus has been included in teaching material and children’s books
A Roman emperor has been listed as “black Briton” by the BBC and some UK museums, despite not being black.
Lucius Septimius Severus died on campaign in Britain in 211AD , and has been included in teaching material and children’s books alongside influential black Britons such as Mary Seacole and Olaudah Equiano.
Severus has also been included in a “Black History Collection” of documentaries newly compiled by the BBC, despite the emperor being of Middle Eastern and Italian descent.
I remember the evening, so many years ago, that my mother excitedly gathered us in the living room of our house behind the pool hall in Athabasca to watch a show featuring a “Cree girl,” a talented singer.
I don’t remember what songs she sang or who accompanied her, but I do remember that my family was spellbound. The tears in mother’s eyes prompted tears in my eyes, which prompted tears from my younger sisters, brother and a couple of cousins.
A Cree girl had made the big time. She was beautiful, and the intense tremolo in her voice — almost a trill — made her sound so tribal.
I don’t get those defending her. She knew who she was well enough to fill out her marriage documents correctly.
The acting chief of Piapot First Nation says his community will not turn its back on Buffy Sainte-Marie after an investigation by CBC’s The Fifth Estate revealed information that contradict the songwriter’s claims to Indigenous ancestry.
“I can relate and understand to a lot of our people who feel betrayed and in a sense lied to by her claiming Indigenous ancestry, when in fact she may not be Indigenous,” said Ira Lavallee.
“When it comes to Buffy specifically we can’t pick and choose which part of our culture we decide to adhere to.… We do have one of our families in our community that did adopt her. Regardless of her ancestry, that adoption in our culture to us is legitimate.”
Buffy Sainte-Marie’s claims to Indigenous ancestry are being contradicted by members of the iconic singer-songwriter’s own family and an extensive CBC investigation.
When Buffy Sainte-Marie strolled onto Sesame Street in 1975, she was making history.
The Dec. 9 episode was the launch of the program’s efforts to present Indigenous culture to millions of viewers.
Sainte-Marie opened her backpack and showed off an array of Indigenous jewelry and beadwork to an eager group of children and adults.
“This is Cree Indian,” Sainte-Marie said, holding out a pair of beaded moccasins. “Cree Indians are my tribe, and we live in Canada.”
In the space of those 10 months, she was referred to as Algonquin, full-blooded Algonquin, Mi’kmaq, half-Mi’kmaq and Cree.
“It’s immediately problematic when you see something like that,” said Teillet.
Singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie has responded to questions about her Indigenous ancestry that are expected to be raised in a CBC report airing this week.
“I have always struggled to answer questions about who I am,” Sainte-Marie, 82, said in a statement released Thursday. “Through that research what became clear, and what I’ve always been honest about, is that I don’t know where I’m from or who my birth parents were, and I will never know.”
Questions about Sainte-Marie’s Indigenous ancestry are expected to be central to an upcoming instalment of CBC’s news documentary show The Fifth Estate.
This is a much more in depth piece on Buffy, it does not look good – Canadian documentary focuses on ‘Icon’ who based career on Native identity
Toronto director calls out comments on his new take on Robin Hood story
Cultural appropriation is a one way street.
h/t RH
A tenured professor at the University of California, Riverside, who has long been accused of fabricating her Native American heritage, will be allowed to retire with full benefits and her title intact.
Ethnic Studies Professor Andrea Smith will reportedly be allowed to keep her current position through August of 2024. She will be allowed to teach classes until then.
Smith’s departure is the result of a separation agreement negotiated by the school. It comes in the wake of a recent complaint by more than a dozen faculty members, who accused her of violating academic integrity by lying about her Native American lineage.
A former student and parent of Kâpapâmahchakwêw – Wandering Spirit School in Toronto are calling on Canada’s largest school board to create a policy that vets applicants who claim to be Indigenous when they’re applying for positions at Indigenous-focused schools or programs.
Michael Peters recently graduated from Wandering Spirit and says in his later years at the school, some students began to take issue with a teacher he says was “claiming to be Indigenous.”
“It really impacted the learning of the students and it really impacted the teaching of Indigenous peoples, because if these people aren’t Indigenous, how can they really teach through an Indigenous lens?”
On a recent trip, we were staying at a place that had streaming subscription services. While we don’t have any at home, and if we had any, it certainly would not be Disney+, here I gave it a try. I ignored the firehose of Marvel/Star Wars junk and the recent identity politics cartoons and everything from the last two generations.
Heigh-ho, heigh-ho it’s off to the job centre they go — for the seven dwarves have been replaced by ‘magical creatures’ for Disney’s live-action remake of Snow White.
Rachel Zegler, who plays the fictional princess, has been pictured for the first time with her new companions who appear to be a mix of genders, ethnicities and heights.
The actress, wearing Snow White’s famous yellow and blue dress and a red cape, is trailed by the group who are dressed in brightly coloured clothes and carrying work tools. They were spotted shooting scenes in Bedfordshire on Thursday in pictures obtained exclusively by MailOnline.
Cultural genocide seems more like it.
Starring Ms. Box Office Poison Rachel Zegler!
It is commonplace for rabid left-wingers to publicly advertise their credentials on the hierarchy of oppression: gay, black, trans, Muslim, disabled — all of the above? — the list goes on. Yet modern American society also suffers from a strange social phenomenon where people making these claims are often exposed as liars. Why would anyone want to live as an “oppressed minority” if such people are treated so brutally by American society?
