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In the early 1980s one of her native songs was used as the theme song for the [[CBC Television|CBC]]'s native series [[Spirit Bay (TV series)|Spirit Bay]]. She was cast for the [[Turner Network Television|TNT]] 1993 telefilm ''The Broken Chain''. It was shot entirely in [[Virginia]]. In 1989 she wrote and performed the music for ''[[Where the Spirit Lives]]'', a film about native children being abducted and forced into residential schools. |
In the early 1980s one of her native songs was used as the theme song for the [[CBC Television|CBC]]'s native series [[Spirit Bay (TV series)|Spirit Bay]]. She was cast for the [[Turner Network Television|TNT]] 1993 telefilm ''The Broken Chain''. It was shot entirely in [[Virginia]]. In 1989 she wrote and performed the music for ''[[Where the Spirit Lives]]'', a film about native children being abducted and forced into residential schools. |
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In 1986, British [[Pop music|pop]] band [[Red Box (band)|Red Box]] covered her song "Qu'Appele Valley, Saskatchewan" (shortened to just "Saskatchewan") on their debut album ''[[The Circle & the Square]]''.<ref name=allmusic>{{cite web | first=Tomas | last=Mureika | title=Review: Red Box |
In 1986, British [[Pop music|pop]] band [[Red Box (band)|Red Box]] covered her song "Qu'Appele Valley, Saskatchewan" (shortened to just "Saskatchewan") on their debut album ''[[The Circle & the Square]]''.<ref name=allmusic>{{cite web | first=Tomas | last=Mureika | title=Review: Red Box – ''The Circle & the Square'' | url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r214993/review|pure_url=yes}} | work=[[Allmusic]] | accessdate=17 July 2022}}</ref>The song originally appears on Sainte-Marie's 1976 album [[Sweet America]]. |
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*Honorary Doctor of Laws – [[University of Toronto]] (2019)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.utoronto.ca/news/singer-activist-philanthropist-buffy-sainte-marie-receives-u-t-honorary-degree|title=Singer, activist, philanthropist Buffy Sainte-Marie receives U of T honorary degree|website=University of Toronto News|language=en|access-date=2019-06-19}}</ref> |
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*Companion of the Order of Canada (2019) |
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*[[2020 Polaris Music Prize|Polaris Heritage Prize]] |
*[[2020 Polaris Music Prize|Polaris Heritage Prize]] – ''It's My Way!'' (2020)<ref>[https://www.fyimusicnews.ca/articles/2020/11/16/2020-slaight-family-polaris-heritage-prize-winners-named "2020 Slaight Family Polaris Heritage Prize Winners Named"]. ''FYI Music News'', November 16, 2020</ref> |
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*New stamp honours renowned singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie November 18, 2021 |
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Birth name | Beverly Sainte-Marie |
Born | [1] Piapot 75 Reserve, Qu'Appelle Valley, Saskatchewan, Canada | February 20, 1941
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Years active | 1963–present |
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Website | buffysainte-marie |
Buffy Sainte-Marie, CC (born Beverly Sainte-Marie, February 20, 1941)[1] is an Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter, musician, Oscar-winning composer, visual artist,[2] educator, pacifist, and social activist. Throughout her career in all of these areas, her work has focused on issues facing Indigenous peoples of the Americas. Her singing and writing repertoire also includes subjects of love, war, religion, and mysticism. She has won recognition, awards and honours for her music as well as her work in education and social activism. Among her most popular songs are "Universal Soldier", "Cod'ine", "Until It's Time for You to Go", "Now That the Buffalo's Gone", and her versions of Mickey Newbury's "Mister Can't You See" and Joni Mitchell's "The Circle Game". Her songs have been recorded by many artists including Donovan, Joe Cocker, Jennifer Warnes, Janis Joplin, and Glen Campbell.
In 1983, she became the first Indigenous person to win an Oscar. Her song "Up Where We Belong", co-written for the film An Officer and a Gentleman, won both the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 55th Academy Awards[3] and the Golden Globe for Best Original Song.
In 1997, she founded the Cradleboard Teaching Project, an educational curriculum devoted to better understanding Native Americans.
Personal life
Sainte-Marie was born in 1941[4][5] on the Piapot 75 reserve in the Qu'Appelle Valley, Saskatchewan, Canada, to Cree parents.[6][7] She was taken as an infant as was government policy back then to take Native children from their parents and give or sell them to white families. She was adopted by Americans, Albert and Winifred Sainte-Marie, a Wakefield, Massachusetts couple of Mi'kmaq descent.[8][9] She attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst, earning degrees in teaching and Oriental philosophy[10] and graduating among the top ten members of her class.[11][6]
In 1964, on a return trip to the Piapot Cree reserve in Canada for a powwow, she was welcomed and (in a Cree Nation context) adopted by the youngest son of Chief Piapot, Emile Piapot and his wife, Clara Starblanket Piapot, who added to Sainte-Marie's cultural value and place in native culture.[12]
In 1968, she married surfing teacher Dewain Bugbee of Hawaii; they divorced in 1971. She married Sheldon Wolfchild from Minnesota in 1975; they have a son, Dakota "Cody" Starblanket Wolfchild. That union also ended in divorce. She married her co-writer for "Up Where We Belong," Jack Nitzsche, on March 19, 1982 and would remain together for seven years. Sainte-Marie has characterized the relationship as abusive and controlling, and ultimately fled their home in LA out of fear for her and her son's safety. She also blames Nitzsche for the stagnation of her career during this time.[13] She returned to Hawaii, which has remained her primary home ever since.[14][better source needed][citation needed]
Although not a Baháʼí herself, she became an active friend of the Baháʼí Faith and has appeared at concerts, conferences and conventions of that religion. In 1992, she appeared in the musical event prelude to the Baháʼí World Congress, a double concert "Live Unity: The Sound of the World" in 1992 with video broadcast and documentary.[15] In the video documentary of the event Sainte-Marie is seen on the Dini Petty Show explaining the Baháʼí teaching of progressive revelation.[16] She also appears in the 1985 video Mona With The Children by Douglas John Cameron. However, while she supports a universal sense of religion, she does not subscribe to any particular religion.
I gave a lot of support to Baháʼí people in the '80s and '90s … Baháʼí people, as people of all religions, is something I'm attracted to … I don't belong to any religion. … I have a huge religious faith or spiritual faith but I feel as though religion … is the first thing that racketeers exploit. … But that doesn't turn me against religion …[17]: 16:15–18:00min
Career
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Sainte-Marie plays piano and guitar, self-taught in her childhood and teen years. In college some of her songs, "Ananias", the Indian lament "Now That the Buffalo's Gone", and "Mayoo Sto Hoon" (a cover of a Hindi Bollywood song "Mayus To Hoon Waade Se Tere" sung by the Indian singer Mohammed Rafi from the 1960 movie Barsaat Ki Raat) were already in her repertoire.[10]
1960s
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By 1962, in her early twenties, she was touring alone, developing her craft and performing in various concert halls, folk music festivals and First Nations reservations across the United States, Canada and abroad. She spent a considerable amount of time in the coffeehouses of downtown Toronto's old Yorkville district, and New York City's Greenwich Village as part of the early to mid-1960s folk scene, often alongside other emerging Canadian contemporaries, such as Leonard Cohen, Neil Young, and Joni Mitchell. (She also introduced Mitchell to Elliot Roberts, who became Joni's manager.)[12]
In 1963, recovering from a throat infection, Sainte-Marie became addicted to codeine and recovering from the experience became the basis of her song "Cod'ine",[11] later covered by Donovan, Janis Joplin, the Charlatans, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Man,[18] the Litter, the Leaves, Jimmy Gilmer, Gram Parsons,[19] Charles Brutus McClay,[20] the Barracudas (spelled "Codeine"),[21] the Golden Horde,[22] Nicole Atkins and Courtney Love. Also in 1963, she witnessed wounded soldiers returning from the Vietnam War at a time when the U.S. government was denying involvement[23] – which inspired her protest song "Universal Soldier",[24] released on her debut album It's My Way on Vanguard Records in 1964, and later became a hit for both Donovan and Glen Campbell.[25]
She was subsequently named Billboard magazine's Best New Artist. Some of her songs addressing the mistreatment of Native Americans, such as "Now That the Buffalo's Gone" (1964) and "My Country 'Tis of Thy People You're Dying" (1964, included on her 1966 album), created controversy at the time.[9] In 1967, she released Fire & Fleet & Candlelight, which contained her interpretation of the traditional Yorkshire dialect song "Lyke Wake Dirge". Sainte-Marie's other well-known songs include "Mister Can't You See", (a Top 40 U.S. hit in 1972); "He's an Indian Cowboy in the Rodeo"; and the theme song of the movie Soldier Blue. She appeared on Pete Seeger's Rainbow Quest with Pete Seeger in 1965 and several Canadian Television productions from the 1960s to the 1990s,[12] and other TV shows such as American Bandstand, Soul Train, The Johnny Cash Show and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson; and sang the opening song "The Circle Game" (written by Joni Mitchell[12]) in Stuart Hagmann's film The Strawberry Statement (1970) Then Came Bronson; episode 20 "Mating Dance for Tender Grass" (1970) sang and acted.
In the late 1960s, she used a Buchla synthesizer to record the album Illuminations, which did not receive much notice. It was the first totally quadraphonic electronic vocal album. [citation needed]
She appeared in "The Heritage" episode of The Virginian, that first aired on October 30, 1968. She played a Shoshone woman who had been sent to be educated at school.[26]
1970s
In late 1975, Sainte-Marie received a phone call from Sesame Street producer Dulcy Singer to appear on the show for a one-shot guest appearance. Sainte-Marie told Singer she had no interest in doing a children's TV show, but reconsidered after asking "Have you done any Native American programming?" According to Sainte-Marie, Singer wanted her to count and recite the alphabet but Buffy wanted to teach the show's young viewers that "Indians still exist".[citation needed] She regularly appeared on Sesame Street over a five-year period from 1976 to 1981. Sainte-Marie breastfed her first son, Dakota "Cody" Starblanket Wolfchild, during a 1977 episode, which is believed to be the first representation of breastfeeding ever aired on television.[27] Sesame Street aired a week of shows from her home in Hawaii in January 1978. Her closest friend from the Sesame Street cast was Alaina Reed, who played Olivia Robinson on the show.
In 1979, Spirit of the Wind, featuring Sainte-Marie's original musical score, including the song "Spirit of the Wind", was one of three entries that year at the Cannes Film Festival. The film is a docudrama about George Attla, the "winningest dog musher of all time", as the film presents him, with all parts played by Native Americans except one by Slim Pickens. The film was shown on cable TV in the early 1980s and was released in France in 2003.[citation needed]
1980s
Sainte-Marie began using Apple II[28] and Macintosh computers as early as 1981 to record her music and later some of her visual art.[10] The song "Up Where We Belong" (which Sainte-Marie co-wrote with Will Jennings and musician Jack Nitzsche) was performed by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes for the film An Officer and a Gentleman. It received the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1982.[3]
In the early 1980s one of her native songs was used as the theme song for the CBC's native series Spirit Bay. She was cast for the TNT 1993 telefilm The Broken Chain. It was shot entirely in Virginia. In 1989 she wrote and performed the music for Where the Spirit Lives, a film about native children being abducted and forced into residential schools.
In 1986, British pop band Red Box covered her song "Qu'Appele Valley, Saskatchewan" (shortened to just "Saskatchewan") on their debut album The Circle & the Square.[29]The song originally appears on Sainte-Marie's 1976 album Sweet America.
1990s
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Sainte-Marie voiced the Cheyenne character, Kate Bighead, in the 1991 made-for-TV movie Son of the Morning Star, telling the Indian side of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, where Sioux Chief Sitting Bull defeated Lt. Col. George Custer.
In 1992, after a sixteen-year recording hiatus, Sainte-Marie released the album Coincidence and Likely Stories.[30] Recorded in 1990 at home in Hawaii on her computer and transmitted via modem through the Internet to producer Chris Birkett in London, England,[12] the album included the politically charged songs "The Big Ones Get Away" and "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" (which mentions Leonard Peltier), both commenting on the ongoing plight of Native Americans (see also the book and film with the same name). Also in 1992, Sainte-Marie appeared in the television film The Broken Chain with Wes Studi and Pierce Brosnan along with First Nations Baháʼí Phil Lucas. Her next album followed up in 1996 with Up Where We Belong, an album on which she re-recorded a number of her greatest hits in more unplugged and acoustic versions, including a re-release of "Universal Soldier". Sainte-Marie has exhibited her art at the Glenbow Museum in Calgary, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, the Emily Carr Gallery in Vancouver and the American Indian Arts Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In 1995, she provided the voice of the spirit in the magic mirror in HBO's Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child, which featured a Native American retelling of the Snow White fairy tale.
Also in 1995, the Indigo Girls released two versions of Sainte-Marie's protest song "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" on their live album 1200 Curfews. The song appears toward the end of Disc One in a live format, recorded at the Atwood Concert Hall in the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts in Anchorage, Alaska. "Every word is true", Emily says in the introduction. The second, found at the end of Disc Two, is a studio recording.
In 1996, she started a philanthropic non-profit fund Nihewan Foundation for American Indian Education devoted to improving Native American students’ participation in learning. The word "Nihewan" comes from the Cree language and means "talk Cree", which implies "Be Your Culture".
Sainte-Marie founded the Cradleboard Teaching Project in October 1996 using funds from her Nihewan Foundation and with a two-year grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation of Battle Creek, Michigan. With projects across Mohawk, Cree, Ojibwe, Menominee, Coeur D'Alene, Navajo, Quinault, Hawaiian, and Apache communities in eleven states, partnered with a non-native class of the same grade level for Elementary, Middle, and High School grades in the disciplines of Geography, History, Social Studies, Music and Science and produced a multimedia curriculum CD, Science: Through Native American Eyes.[31]
2000s
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In 2000, Sainte-Marie gave the commencement address at Haskell Indian Nations University.[32] In 2002 she sang at the Kennedy Space Center for Commander John Herrington, USN, a Chickasaw and the first Native American astronaut.[33] In 2003 she became a spokesperson for the UNESCO Associated Schools Project Network in Canada.[34]
In 2002, a track written and performed by Sainte-Marie, titled "Lazarus", was sampled by Hip Hop producer Kanye West and performed by Cam'Ron and Jim Jones of The Diplomats. The track is called "Dead or Alive". In June 2007, she made a rare U.S. appearance at the Clearwater Festival in Croton-on-Hudson, New York.
In 2008, a two-CD set titled Buffy/Changing Woman/Sweet America: The Mid-1970s Recordings was released, compiling the three studio albums that she recorded for ABC Records and MCA Records between 1974 and 1976 (after departing her long-time label Vanguard Records). This was the first re-release of this material. In September 2008, Sainte-Marie made a comeback onto the music scene in Canada with the release of her studio album Running for the Drum. It was produced by Chris Birkett (producer of her 1992 and 1996 best of albums). Sessions for this project commenced in 2006 in Sainte-Marie's home studio in Hawaii and in part in France. They continued until spring 2007. [citation needed]
2010s
In 2015, Sainte-Marie released the album Power in the Blood on True North Records. She had a television appearance on May 22, 2015, with Democracy Now! to discuss the record and her musical and activist career. On September 21, 2015, Power in the Blood was named the winner of the 2015 Polaris Music Prize.[35]
Also in 2015, A Tribe Called Red released an electronic remix of Sainte-Marie's song, "Working for the Government".[36]
In 2016, Sainte-Marie toured North America with Mark Olexson (bass), Anthony King (guitar), Michel Bruyere (drums), and Kibwe Thomas (keyboards).[37]
In 2017, she released the single "You Got to Run (Spirit of the Wind)", a collaboration with fellow Polaris Music Prize laureate, Tanya Tagaq.[38] The song was inspired by George Attla, a champion dog sled racer from Alaska.[39]
On November 29, 2019, a 50th-anniversary edition of Sainte-Marie's 1969 album, Illuminations, was released on vinyl by Concord Records, the company that bought Vanguard Records, the original publisher of the album.[40]
She is the subject of Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On, a 2022 documentary film by Madison Thomas.[41]
Blacklisting
Sainte-Marie said in a 2008 interview at the National Museum of the American Indian[42] that she had been blacklisted by American radio stations and that she, along with Native Americans and other Indigenous people in the Red Power movements, were put out of business in the 1970s.[43]
In a 1999 interview at Diné College with a staff writer with Indian Country Today, Sainte-Marie said "I found out 10 years later, in the 1980s, that President Lyndon B. Johnson had been writing letters on White House stationery praising radio stations for suppressing my music" and "In the 1970s, not only was the protest movement put out of business, but the Native American movement was attacked."[44]
As a result of this blacklisting which Sainte-Marie claims was led by (among others) Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, and Nashville disc jockey Ralph Emery (following the release of I'm Gonna Be a Country Girl Again), Sainte-Marie said "I was put out of business in the United States".[45]
Honours and awards
- Academy Award for Best Original Song – "Up Where We Belong" (1983)[3]
- Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song – "Up Where We Belong" (1983)
- BAFTA Award for Best Original Song Written for a Film – "Up Where We Belong" (1983)
- Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts – University of Massachusetts (1983)
- Best International Artist (France; 1993)
- Canadian Music Hall of Fame aka JUNO Hall of Fame – 1995 inductee
- Honorary Doctor of Laws – University of Regina (1996)
- Juno Award – Aboriginal Recording of the Year for Up Where We Belong (1997)
- Gemini Award for Best Performance in a Television Special (1996 variety special, Up Where We Belong) (1997)
- Dove Award (Gospel; 1997)
- Officer of the Order of Canada (1997)[46]
- Star on Canada's Walk of Fame (1998)
- Honorary Doctor of Letters – Lakehead University (2000)
- Honorary Doctor of Humanities – University of Saskatchewan (2003)
- Honorary Doctor of Letters – Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design – (2007)[47]
- Honorary Doctor of Laws – Carleton University (2008)[48]
- Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame – 2009 inductee
- Honorary Doctor of Music – University of Western Ontario (2009)
- Juno Award – Aboriginal Recording of the Year for Running for the Drum (2009)
- Honorary Doctor – Wilfrid Laurier University (2010)
- Honorary Doctor – Ontario College of Art and Design (2010)
- Honorary Doctor of Letters – Wilfrid Laurier – Letters (2010)
- Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts – Ontario College of Art and Design (2010)[49]
- Governor General's Performing Arts Award (2010)[50]
- Honorary Doctor of Letters – University of British Columbia (2012)
- Americana Music Honors & Awards – Spirit of Americana/Free Speech in Music Award (2015)
- Polaris Music Prize (2015) (for Power in the Blood)
- Juno Award – Aboriginal Album of the Year (2016) (for Power in the Blood)
- Juno Award – Contemporary Roots Album of the Year (2016) (for Power in the Blood)
- Allan Waters Humanitarian Award, 2017
- Juno Award – Indigenous music album of the year (2018) (for Medicine Songs)[51]
- Indigenous Music Awards – Best Folk Album (2018) (for Medicine Songs)[52]
- Indigenous Music Awards – Best Video (2018) (for The War Racket)
- Frank Blythe Award for Media Excellence (2018)
- Honorary Doctor of Laws – University of Toronto (2019)[53]
- Companion of the Order of Canada (2019)
- Polaris Heritage Prize – It's My Way! (2020)[54]
- New stamp honours renowned singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie November 18, 2021
Date unknown
- Screen Actors Guild Lifetime Achievement
- American Indian College Fund Lifetime Achievement
- Charles de Gaulle Award (France)
- Sistina Award (Italy) [when?]
Other
- In 1979, the Supersisters trading card set was produced and distributed; one of the cards featured Sainte-Marie's name and picture.[56]
Discography
Albums
Year | Album | Peak chart positions | |||
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CAN | AUS[57] | US | UK[58] | ||
1964 | It's My Way! | — | — | — | — |
1965 | Many a Mile | — | — | — | — |
1966 | Little Wheel Spin and Spin | — | — | 97 | — |
1967 | Fire & Fleet & Candlelight | — | — | 126 | — |
1968 | I'm Gonna Be a Country Girl Again | — | — | 171 | — |
1969 | Illuminations | — | — | — | — |
1971 | She Used to Wanna Be a Ballerina | — | 47 | 182 | — |
1972 | Moonshot | — | — | 134 | — |
1973 | Quiet Places | — | — | — | — |
1974 | Buffy | — | — | — | — |
1975 | Changing Woman | — | — | — | — |
1976 | Sweet America | — | — | — | — |
1992 | Coincidence and Likely Stories | 63 | — | — | 39 |
1996 | Up Where We Belong | — | — | — | — |
2008 | Running for the Drum | N/A | — | — | — |
2015 | Power in the Blood | N/A | — | — | — |
2017 | Medicine Songs | N/A | — | — | — |
Year | Album | Peak chart positions | |||
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CAN | AUS[57] | US | UK[58] | ||
1985 | Attla: A Motion Picture Soundtrack Album (with William Ackerman) | — | N/A | — | N/A |
Singles
Year | Single | Peak chart positions | Album | ||||
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CAN | CAN AC | US | UK[58] | AUS[57] | |||
1965 | "Until It's Time for You to Go" | — | — | — | — | — | Many a Mile |
1970 | "The Circle Game" | 76 | — | 109 | — | 83 | Fire & Fleet & Candlelight |
1971 | "Soldier Blue" | — | — | — | 7 | — | She Used to Wanna Be a Ballerina |
"I'm Gonna Be a Country Girl Again" | 86 | — | 98 | 34 | — | I'm Gonna Be a Country Girl Again | |
1972 | "Mister Can't You See" | 21 | — | 38 | — | 70 | Moonshot |
"He's an Indian Cowboy in the Rodeo" | — | — | 98 | — | — | ||
1973 | "I Wanna Hold Your Hand Forever"[60] | — | — | — | — | — | N/A |
1974 | "Waves" | — | 27 | — | — | — | Buffy |
1992 | "The Big Ones Get Away" | 24 | 14 | — | 39 | — | Coincidence & Likely Stories |
"Fallen Angels" | 50 | 26 | — | 57 | — | ||
1996 | "Until It's Time for You to Go" | — | 54 | — | — | — | Up Where We Belong |
2008 | "No No Keshagesh" | — | — | — | — | — | Running for the Drum |
2017 | "You Got to Run (Spirit of the Wind)" (feat. Tanya Tagaq) | — | — | — | — | — | Medicine Songs |
Soundtrack appearances
Year | Song(s) | Album |
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1970 | "Dyed, Dead, Red" and "Hashishin" with Ry Cooder | Performance |
Anthologies
Year | Album | Peak chart positions | ||
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CAN | US | UK[58] | ||
1970 | The Best of Buffy Sainte-Marie | — | 142 | — |
1971 | The Best of Buffy Sainte-Marie Vol. 2 | — | — | — |
1974 | Native North American Child: An Odyssey | — | — | — |
1976 | Indian Girl (European release) | — | — | — |
A Golden Hour of the Best Of (UK release) | — | — | — | |
2003 | The Best of the Vanguard Years | — | — | — |
2008 | Buffy/Changing Woman/Sweet America | — | — | — |
See also
Further reading
- Bataille, Gretchen; Lisa, Laurie (2005). Native American women: a biographical dictionary (eBook : Document : Biography: English : Second ed.). New York : Taylor & Francis e-Library. ISBN 9781135955878. OCLC 909403141.
References
- ^ a b "Encyclopedia of the Great Plains | SAINTE-MARIE, BUFFY (b. 1941)". Plainshumanities.unl.edu. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
- ^ More than 26.5 million copies sold world-wide as per Buffy Saint-Marie biography/profile Archived May 31, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b c ""An Officer and a Gentleman" (NY)". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. September 16, 2014. Retrieved November 4, 2019.
Academy Award winner: Music – Original Song ("Up Where We Belong", Music by Jack Nitzsche, Buffy Sainte-Marie; Lyrics by Will Jennings)
- ^ "Buffy Sainte-Marie Biography". Filmreference.com. Retrieved June 10, 2008.
- ^ Nygaard King, Betty. "Saint-Marie, Buffy". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved June 10, 2008.
- ^ a b Colette P. Simonot. "Sainte-Marie, Buffy (Beverly) (1941–)". The Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan. University of Regina. Archived from the original on September 24, 2016. Retrieved June 25, 2015.
- ^ Bennett, Tony, and Valda Blundell. 1995. Cultural studies. Vol. 9, no. 1, First peoples: cultures, policies, politics. London: Routledge. pg. 111; ISBN 0-203-98575-3
- ^ "Six Amazing Indian Women From New England". Newenglandhistoricalsociety.com. March 21, 2018. Retrieved December 16, 2018.
- ^ a b Encyclopedia of the Great Plains entry by Paula Conlon, University of Oklahoma, edited by David J. Wishart
- ^ a b c "Buffy Sainte-Marie UK Biography". Buffysaintemarie.co.uk. Archived from the original on October 19, 2013. Retrieved April 23, 2014.
- ^ a b 45 Profiles in Modern Music by E. Churchill and Linda Churchill, pgs. 110–2
- ^ a b c d e Buffy Sainte-Marie: A Multimedia Life (Director's Cut) DVD, distributed by Filmwest Associates of Canada and the US, [1] Archived June 30, 2019, at the Wayback Machine, 2006
- ^ The relationship is explored in great detail in the 2018 book, Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography, by Andrea Warner ISBN 978-1-77164-358-0, chapter 12 "Up Where We Belong"
- ^ "Buffy fans Tarantino and Morrissey – Reader comments at The New York Sun". Nysun.com. Retrieved April 23, 2014. dead link
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- ^ Charles Brutus McClay – "Bottled in France", released 1970 by CBS France, cat.nr.64478
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