Oscar-winning songwriter and Canadian Music Hall of Fame inductee Buffy Sainte-Marie, known for the anti-war song “Universal Soldier” and stolen-land lament “Now That the Buffalo’s Gone,” has had her ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Singer Buffy Sainte-Marie, whose purported Indigenous lineage has been called into question, says she has returned her Order of ...

Buffy Saint-Marie performs at the Americana Music Honors and Awards show in 2015, in Nashville, Tenn. The Oscar-winning singer’s Order of Canada termination was publicly shared on Saturday in the ...

The Oscar winner is also set to lose two Polaris music prizes after a 2023 CBC program claimed the Sainte-Marie had been fraudulently posing as Native. By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau Chief American ...

For the past year and a half, the indigenous Canadian identity of the veteran folksinger Buffy Sainte-Marie has been under serious question. Sainte-Marie claimed Native heritage and took activist ...

Canada's two most prestigious musical honors, the Juno and Polaris Awards, have rescinded singer-songwriter Buffy Saint-Marie's past awards due to her recent acknowledgement that she is not a Canadian ...

Singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie has been stripped of her appointment to the Order of Canada, the nation’s second-highest award for merit. “The Office of the Secretary to the Governor General does ...

The Canadian government has stripped Buffy Sainte-Marie of one of the country's highest honors, after a 2023 news report found she had fabricated claims of Indigenous ancestry. The Oscar-winning ...