Buffy Sainte-Marie opens the Juno Awards show on Sunday April 2, 2017 in Ottawa. The Indigenous Women's Collective is calling for Sainte-Marie to lose her 2018 Juno Award for"Indigenous Album of the Year," after a CBC story cast doubt on the singer's ancestry. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean KilpatrickA group of Indigenous women is calling for Buffy Sainte-Marie to lose her Juno Award for Indigenous album of the year, after a CBC story raised doubts about the singer's ancestry.
It said the deception allowed her to benefit from a false narrative that misled thousands of Indigenous people. CBC obtained Sainte-Marie's birth certificate, which says she was born in 1941 in Stoneham, Mass., to Albert and Winifred Sainte-Marie. The document lists the baby and parents as white and includes a signature of an attending physician.
Sainte-Marie, 82, said in a statement the day before CBC's story that she doesn't know who her birth parents are or where she's from, but called herself "a proud member of the Native community with deep roots in Canada." The Junos did not respond to a request for comment Monday but said last week that it had not seen "The Fifth Estate" show and had "nothing to provide."
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