Buffy Sainte-Marie is pushing back on a recent CBC News investigation that questions her Indigenous heritage, maintaining she has never lied about her identity.
The document lists the baby and parents as white and includes a signature of an attending physician — information CBC says is corroborated by Sainte-Marie’s marriage certificate, a life insurance policy and the United States census.
Thompson said CBC was assured by a town clerk in Stoneham, Mass., that its document on file is an original live birth certificate and it’s not possible another was inserted after the fact.
CBC’s report said family recollections and other written correspondence show the brother received the letter after he informed someone from PBS that Sainte-Marie was not Indigenous.
“It hurts me deeply to discover that my estranged family grew up scared of me and thinking these lies because of a letter I sent intended to protect me from further abuse,” Sainte-Marie said in the statement.
She brought First Nations culture to Sesame Street and is credited with being the first Indigenous person to win an Oscar, for best original song in 1982 for co-writing Up Where We Belong from the movie An Officer and a Gentleman.
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Buffy Sainte-Marie is pushing back on a recent CBC News investigation that questions her Indigenous heritage, maintaining she has never lied about her identity.
The document lists the baby and parents as white and includes a signature of an attending physician — information CBC says is corroborated by Sainte-Marie’s marriage certificate, a life insurance policy and the United States census.
Thompson said CBC was assured by a town clerk in Stoneham, Mass., that its document on file is an original live birth certificate and it’s not possible another was inserted after the fact.
CBC’s report said family recollections and other written correspondence show the brother received the letter after he informed someone from PBS that Sainte-Marie was not Indigenous.
“It hurts me deeply to discover that my estranged family grew up scared of me and thinking these lies because of a letter I sent intended to protect me from further abuse,” Sainte-Marie said in the statement.
She brought First Nations culture to Sesame Street and is credited with being the first Indigenous person to win an Oscar, for best original song in 1982 for co-writing Up Where We Belong from the movie An Officer and a Gentleman.
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