The Order of Canada terminated Buffy Sainte-Marie's appointment without providing a reason. The move followed a CBC documentary that questioned Sainte-Marie's ancestry, which she vehemently denied, attributing the claims to fabricated stories from her childhood abuser and estranged family members.
“Notice is hereby given that the appointment of Buffy Sainte-Marie to the Order of Canada was terminated by Ordinance signed by the Governor General on January 3, 2025,”No reason was given for the termination, but the notice was signed by Ken MacKillop, secretary general of the Order of Canada.
The documentary episode claimed the singer-songwriter’s white adoptive parents were in fact her biological parents. Sainte-Marie, considered the first Indigenous winner of an Academy Award, pushed back against questions over her ancestry raised in the CBC program.the airing of the CBC investigation, Sainte-Marie said the network relied on a story fabricated by her childhood abuser and brother, Alan, and two members of her estranged family that she doesn’t know.
Sainte-Marie also argued answering questions about her background had been complicated by being unable to find her birth parents and other information about her upbringing.program claimed it found news clippings referring to Sainte-Marie as alternately Algonquin, Mi’kmaq and Cree. And her authorized biography stated she was born in 1941 on Cree land in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan and removed from her birth family and adopted by a white American family, the Sainte-Maries, as part of a notorious government policy known as the Sixties Scoop.
But the CBC show claimed it had found Sainte-Marie’s purported birth certificate, which stated that she was born in 1941 in Stoneham, Massachusetts, to Albert and Winifred Santamaria, her supposed adoptive parents, who are listed as white.reached out to representatives for Sainte-Marie for direct comment over the Order of Canada termination, but has yet to hear back.Erin Lassner. We use vendors that may also process your information to help provide our services.
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