Buffy Sainte Marie | 2 The Big Ones Get Away

Feb 26, 2024

In 2022, PBS released the documentary “Carry It On” about Buffy Sainte Marie’s life. A Native journalist sat down to watch it, and found herself uneasy as the documentary progressed. Something about Buffy’s adoption story didn’t add up; Buffy had never found her real parents. So she started digging and found what she considered damning evidence that Buffy Sainte-Marie had fabricated her identity for the last sixty years: a birth certificate. 

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