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Buffy Sainte-Marie, Academy Award-Winning Songwriter, Has Indigenous Roots Questioned In CBC Report

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A detailed investigation by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has raised questions about the indigenous persona of singer/songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie.

Sainte-Marie has been feted as the first Indigenous person to win an Academy Award for cowriting the song Up Where We Belong for the film An Officer and a Gentleman.

Sainte-Marie, 82, has claimed that she was born on Tribal land and adopted by white parents. The CBC countered that in a report published Friday and in an accompanying episode of the documentary series The Fifth Estate.

The media outlet obtained a birth certificate saying Sainte-Marie was born to parents of European ancestry in Massachusetts.

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