Buffy Sainte-Marie
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 Vil…
Known For
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
Self
Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation
Self
Stripper
Music
Festival
Self
Broken Rainbow
Translator's Voice (voice)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
Where the Spirit Lives
Music
Top of the Pops
Self
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Filmography
Acting (29)
Movies (18)
Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On
2022as Self
Stronger Together, Tous Ensemble
2020as Self
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
2017as Self
The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code
2015as Narrator
Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation
2013as Self
Buffy
2010as Self
Saint Misbehavin': The Wavy Gravy Movie
2010as Self
Buffy Sainte-Marie: A Multimedia Life
2006as Self
Making a Noise: A Native American Musical Journey with Robbie Robertson
1999as Self - Cree (archive footage)
Buffy Sainte-Marie: Up Where We Belong
1996as Main Artist
The Broken Chain
1993as Gesina 'Grandmother' / Seth's Wife
Uranium
1990as Self - Narrator (voice)
Broken Rainbow
1985as Translator's Voice (voice)
Walkabout to Hollywood
1980as Self
A Walking Tour of Sesame Street
1979as Buffy (archive footage) (uncredited)
As Long as the Rivers Run
1971as Self
Festival
1967as Self
The Creative Person: The Folksinger
1965as Self
Television (11)
On the Trail of Easy Rider: 40 Years On... Still Searching for America
2011as self
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995as The Spirit (voice)
Austin City Limits
1975as Self
Dinah!
1974as Self
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
1969as Self
Then Came Bronson
1969as Tender Grass
Top of the Pops
1964as Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962as Self
The Merv Griffin Show
1962as Self
The Virginian
1962as Nai'Be
Kraft Music Hall
1958as Self
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