- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- February 20, 1941
- Place of Birth
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Buffy Sainte-Marie
Canadian-born American singer-songwriter, guitarist, political activist, and visual artist known especially for her use of music to promote awareness of issues affecting Native Americans. Orphaned as an infant in Canada when her mother, a Plains Cree, died in an auto accident, Sainte-Marie was adopted by an U.S. couple of Mi’kmaq ancestry and raised in Massachusetts & Maine. Her earliest days as a self-taught folk singer were spent shaking up the coffeehouses and consciousnesses in Greenwich Village and helping Joni Mitchell get discovered. Along with her lifelong commitment to and advocacy for Indigenous and Aboriginal people around the world, she has changed the education system from within, and maintained an unwavering passion for social justice, equality and the Earth mixed with her love of sound and songs. Her legacy is that of as an ever-curious, ever-evolving, and technologically …
Filmography
movieBuffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On
2022 · Self
movieStronger Together, Tous Ensemble
2020 · Self
movieRumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
2017 · Self
movieThe Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code
2015 · Narrator
movieGreenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation
2013 · Self
tvOn the Trail of Easy Rider: 40 Years On... Still Searching for America
2011 · Self
movieSaint Misbehavin': The Wavy Gravy Movie
2010 · Self
Buffy
movieBuffy
2010 · Self, Musician
movieBuffy Sainte-Marie: A Multimedia Life
2006 · Self
movieMaking a Noise: A Native American Musical Journey with Robbie Robertson
1999 · Self - Cree (archive footage)
Buffy Sainte-Marie: Up Where We Belong
movieBuffy Sainte-Marie: Up Where We Belong
1996 · Main Artist
tvHappily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995 · The Spirit (voice)
movieThe Broken Chain
1993 · Gesina 'Grandmother' / Seth's Wife
movieUranium
1990 · Self - Narrator (voice)
movieWhere the Spirit Lives
1990 · Music, Original Music Composer
movieStripper
1985 · Music
movieBroken Rainbow
1985 · Translator's Voice (voice)
movieHarold of Orange
1984 · Original Music Composer
movieThe Great Spirit Within the Hole
1983 · Music
movieWalkabout to Hollywood
1980 · Self
movieA Walking Tour of Sesame Street
1979 · Buffy (archive footage) (uncredited)
tvAustin City Limits
1975 · Self
tvDinah!
1974 · Self
movieAs Long as the Rivers Run
1971 · Self
tvThen Came Bronson
1969 · Tender Grass
tvThe Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
1969 · Self
movieFestival
1967 · Self
movieThe Creative Person: The Folksinger
1965 · Self
tvTop of the Pops
1964 · Self
tvThe Merv Griffin Show
1962 · Self
tvThe Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Self
tvThe Virginian
1962 · Nai'Be
tvKraft Music Hall
1958 · Self