Buffy Sainte-Marie

Known for ActingBorn 1941-02-20 (age 85)

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 pioneering musician, producer, composer and artist — despite her inability to read a note of music.Read more

Movies & web series

Buffy Sainte-Marie: Up Where We Belong

The Great Spirit Within the Hole

Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World

Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On

Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Buffy

Making a Noise: A Native American Musical Journey with Robbie Robertson

Dinah!

Saint Misbehavin': The Wavy Gravy Movie

The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour

Top of the Pops

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

The Merv Griffin Show

The Virginian

Where the Spirit Lives

Austin City Limits

Stronger Together, Tous Ensemble

Broken Rainbow

Festival

Stripper

Kraft Music Hall

Then Came Bronson

The Broken Chain

The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code

On the Trail of Easy Rider: 40 Years On... Still Searching for America

Buffy Sainte-Marie: A Multimedia Life

Uranium

Harold of Orange

Walkabout to Hollywood

A Walking Tour of Sesame Street

As Long as the Rivers Run

The Creative Person: The Folksinger