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Buffy Sainte-Marie
Canadian-born American singer-songwriter, guitarist, political activist, and visual artist known especially for her use of music to promote awareness of issues affecting Native Am…
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Canadian-born American singer-songwriter, guitarist, political activist, and visual artist known especially for her use of music to promote awareness of issues affecting Native Americans. Orphaned as an infant in Canada when her mother, a Plains Cree, died in an auto accident, Sainte-Marie was adopted by an U.S. couple of Mi’kmaq ancestry and raised in Massachusetts & Maine. Her earliest days as a self-taught folk singer were spent shaking up the coffeehouses and consciousnesses in Greenwich Village and helping Joni Mitchell get discovered. Along with her lifelong commitment to and advocacy for Indigenous and Aboriginal people around the world, she has changed the education system from within, and maintained an unwavering passion for social justice, equality and the Earth mixed with her love of sound and songs. Her legacy is that of as an ever-curious, ever-evolving, and technologically pioneering musician, producer, composer and artist — despite her inability to read a note of music.
Filmography
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2022
Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On
Movie Self
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2020
Stronger Together, Tous Ensemble
Movie Self
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2018
Stringman: The Jack Nitzsche Story
Movie Self
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2017
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
Movie Self
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2015
The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code
Movie Narrator
- 2013
- 2011
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2010
Saint Misbehavin': The Wavy Gravy Movie
Movie Self
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2010
Buffy
Movie Self
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2006
Buffy Sainte-Marie: A Multimedia Life
Movie Self
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1999
Making a Noise: A Native American Musical Journey with Robbie Robertson
Movie Self - Cree (archive footage)
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1996
Buffy Sainte-Marie: Up Where We Belong
Movie Main Artist
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1995
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
TV show The Spirit (voice)
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1993
The Broken Chain
Movie Gesina 'Grandmother' / Seth's Wife
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1990
Uranium
Movie Self - Narrator (voice)
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1990
Where the Spirit Lives
Movie Music
More credits
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1985
Stripper
Movie Music
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1985
Broken Rainbow
Movie Translator's Voice (voice)
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1984
Harold of Orange
Movie Original Music Composer
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1983
The Great Spirit Within the Hole
Movie Music
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1980
Walkabout to Hollywood
Movie Self
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1979
A Walking Tour of Sesame Street
Movie Buffy (archive footage) (uncredited)
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1975
Austin City Limits
TV show Self
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1974
Dinah!
TV show Self
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1971
As Long as the Rivers Run
Movie Self
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1969
Then Came Bronson
TV show Tender Grass
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1969
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
TV show Self
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1967
Festival
Movie Self
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1965
The Creative Person: The Folksinger
Movie Self
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1964
Top of the Pops
TV show Self
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1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV show Self
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1962
The Merv Griffin Show
TV show Self
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1962
The Virginian
TV show Nai'Be
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1958
Kraft Music Hall
TV show Self
