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Buffy Sainte-Marie Stripped of Honorary Degree Over Native American
Ancestry Dispute
Michelle Stein
May 15, 2026, 9:47 am
Buffy Sainte-Marie
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What To Know
The University of Toronto rescinded Buffy Sainte-MarierCOs honorary degree
due to ongoing disputes over her claimed Indigenous Cree ancestry.
It came after a 2023 documentary revealed her birth certificate and
family testimony.
Sainte-Marie has maintained that she has never lied about her identity.
Buffy Sainte-Marie rCo the Oscar-winning folk singer who claims to be an Indigenous woman of Cree descent rCo was recently stripped of an honorary degree over an ancestry dispute.
On Wednesday, May 13, the University of Toronto announced that it had rescinded Sainte-MarierCOs honorary Doctor of Laws degree. She received
the honor in 2019 for her rCLexcellence in the arts, as a
singer-songwriter, actress and visual artist.rCY
The decision, approved on May 13, came more than two years after the
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) aired a documentary from The
Fifth Estate alleging that Sainte-Marie lied about her Native American ancestry. In it, a birth certificate indicated that she was born in Massachusetts to Italian-American parents. Family members also confirmed
this.
However, Sainte-Marie, 85, insisted in March 2025 that although she is
an American citizen with a U.S. passport, she was adopted as a young
adult by a Cree family.
Sainte-Marie rose to fame in the rCO60s with folk songs like rCLUniversal Solider,rCY rCLNow That the BuffalorCOs Gone,rCY rCLUntil ItrCOs Time for You to
Go,rCY rCLMy Country rCyTis of Thy People YourCOre Dying,rCY and more. She co-wrote rCLUp Where We Belong,rCY which won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for the film An Officer and a Gentleman in 1983.
Additionally, she appeared as a recurring guest on Sesame Street from
1975 to 1981, during which she shared her Cree heritage and performed songs.
In November 2023, Billboard Canada published a statement from
Sainte-Marie, just two months after she announced her retirement from
live performances. rCLI have never lied about my identity,rCY she insisted. rCLThe more IrCOve known, the more IrCOve pieced together a sense of self from what information has been available to me.rCY
Sainte-Marie continued, rCLWhat I know about my Indigenous ancestry I
learned from my growing up mother, who was of MirCOkmaq heritage, and my
own research later in life. My mother told me that I was adopted and
that I was Native, but there was no documentation as was common for
Indigenous children at the time.rCY
After detailing how she was adopted into a Cree family as an adult, she admitted, rCLI have always struggled to answer questions about who I am.
For decades, I tried to find my birth parents and information about my background.rCY
Sainte-Marie explained, rCLThrough that research what became clear, and
what IrCOve always been honest about: I donrCOt know where IrCOm from or who my birth parents are, and I will never know. Which is why, to be
questioned in this way is painful, both for me, and for my two families
I love so dearly.rCY
Buffy Sainte-Marie
comments include
LadyCalais
15 May, 2026
She ginned up the indigenous ancestry to take advantage of the 1960s
renewed interest in First Nation citizens. It was a clever way to stand
out from the rank and file folk music crowd she was trying to make her
mark on. She got away with it for decades, and reaped fame and renown
for it, until it ...
John Olthoff
1 Point
16 May, 2026
She related to Elizabeth Warren
matt d
16 May, 2026
You can run, but you can't hide from the dna truth!
Sergio Bungholio
1 Point
16 May, 2026
What is it with liberalsrCa.they are comfortable in their own skin so they have to make up who they are.
Ad D
16 May, 2026
She's a fake and was "found out." I have indigenous friends who despise
her fraud. They believe she took advantage of their heritage. They're
glad that the truth was revealed.
Jabbers99
16 May, 2026
Hey everybody, IrCOm Italian. IsnrCOt that weird?
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