Actor
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
Acting
2022 -- Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On | Self
2020 -- Stronger Together, Tous Ensemble | Self
2017 -- Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World | Self
2015 -- The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code | Narrator
2013 -- Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation | Self
2010 -- Saint Misbehavin': The Wavy Gravy Movie | Self
2010 -- Buffy | Self
2006 -- Buffy Sainte-Marie: A Multimedia Life | Self
1999 -- Making a Noise: A Native American Musical Journey with Robbie Robertson | Self - Cree (archive footage)
1996 -- Buffy Sainte-Marie: Up Where We Belong | Main Artist
1993 -- The Broken Chain | Gesina 'Grandmother' / Seth's Wife
1990 -- Uranium | Narrator (voice)
1985 -- Broken Rainbow | Translator's Voice (voice)
1980 -- Walkabout to Hollywood | Self
1979 -- A Walking Tour of Sesame Street | Buffy (archive footage) (uncredited)
1971 -- As Long as the Rivers Run | Self
1967 -- Festival | Self
1965 -- The Creative Person: The Folksinger | Self
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