Person Details

Birthday: 1941-02-20 11:37:08

Aliases: No known aliases

Gender: Female

Place of birth:

Homepage: http://buffysainte-marie.com

Movie Involvements: 20

TV Involvements: 6


Most Famous Work

Biography

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.

Most Famous Work

The Virginian
Average
6

The Virginian

(1962) Nai'Be
Top of the Pops
Average
7

Top of the Pops

(1964) Self
Kraft Music Hall
Average
5

Kraft Music Hall

(1958) Self
Dinah!
Average
7

Dinah!

(1974) Self
Austin City Limits
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6

Austin City Limits

(1975) Self
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
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6
The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code
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0
Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation
Average
7

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2022 Self
2020 Self
2017 Self
2015 Narrator
2013 Self
2010 Self
Self
2006 Self
1999 Self - Cree (archive footage)
1995 The Spirit (voice)
1993 Gesina 'Grandmother' / Seth's Wife
1990 Narrator (voice)
1985 Translator's Voice (voice)
1980 Self
1979 Buffy (archive footage) (uncredited)
1975 Self
1974 Self
1971 Self
1969 N/A
Self
1967 Self
1965 Self
1964 Self
1962 Self
Self
Nai'Be
1958 Self
Year Character Movie/Tv

Sound


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