742 Buffy Sainte-Marie (1941- ) “Cod’ine” and “Now That the Buffalo’s Gone” 1964

“Born on the Piapot Plains Cree First Nation Reserve in the Qu’Appelle Valley of Saskatchewan, Buffy Sainte-Marie was part of the mass adoption of Aboriginal children outside of Canada. Raised in Maine, Sainte-Marie considers herself to be fortunate in that her adoptive mother, who was part Mi’kmaq, encouraged her daughter to explore her Aboriginal identity.” Sainte-Marie: “Some men in the Indian movement have not wanted to hand the microphone to me, and never wanted to give credit to women. Just look at the ‘stars’ of the Indian movement in the ‘60s—there were a lot of women feeding those guys, patching them up, being nurses and telling them what to say. Because women—even oppressed women—we are very often the brains behind the whole thing” (Fiona Muldrew, Suzanne McLeod, Herizons, Winter 2018). The album It’s My Way is listed on the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress. 

Buffy Sainte-Marie “Cod’ine”

Buffy Sainte-Marie “Now That the Buffalo’s Gone”