COLUMN: Buffy ‘fraud’ a ‘gut punch’ to Indigenous culture – Bradford Today

Nov. 3, 2023

‘Reflection provides the lens that we can look through to see how that deception was orchestrated like a fairy-tale Disney production,’ says local elder

The aftershocks continue to reverberate through my body, my mind, and my spirit on this day. I feel bruised in every possible way upon learning of how we had suddenly lost one of the biggest icons that Indigenous people had ever known in our modern era.

The person that I thought was Buffy Sainte-Marie was suddenly gone! The Indigenous woman we all knew as Buffy, the one we grew up watching on television, the one we had paid to see in concert had suddenly, tragically, dematerialized.

Santa Maria!

It hit me like a gut punch and as I watched the Fifth Estate, the investigative journal on CBC, I was hit again, gut punch following gut punch as damning evidence was presented that the person that I grew up knowing as Buffy Sainte-Marie was a misrepresentation of not only herself, but a misrepresentation of me as a Native person.

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