Buffy Sainte-Marie’s claims to Indigenous ancestry are being contradicted by members of the iconic singer-songwriter’s own family and an extensive CBC investigation.

By Geoff Leo, Roxanna Woloshyn and Linda Guerriero • CBC News

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 year ago

    As a full blooded indigenous person the news about this completely sucks

    The message is …

    • being full blooded means nothing
    • being successful and having money means you can say do and become whatever you want to be

    This revelation doesn’t say that much about Santamaria … it says so much about how everyone doesn’t really care about full or mostly blooded native individuals.

    • MacroCyclo@lemmy.ca
      1·
      1 year ago

      Kinda curious, why should anyone care how much “indigenous blood” you have. Shouldn’t your personal circumstance, history, and culture be a more important focus than your genetics?

    • Yaztromo@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      I think the fact this is coming out now and is being discussed so much means that a lot of people really care about full/mostly-full blooded native individuals, and that they feel this sort of misrepresentation of heritage is wrong and harmful.

      The fact it’s taken 60 years to get to this point says something sad about how much people cared about this in the past — but I’d like to think the attention this story is getting means this is changing for the better, and that most settler Canadians don’t agree that people should be allowed to misrepresent their heritage to the ultimate detriment of the First Nations people of this country.