Buffy Sainte-Marie
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 Village and helping Joni Mitchell get discovered. Along with her lifelong commitment to and advocacy for Indigenous and Aboriginal people around the world, she has changed the education system from within, and maintained an unwavering passion for social justice, equality and the Earth mixed with her love of sound and songs. Her legacy is that of as an ever-curious, ever-evolving, and technologically pioneering musician, producer, composer and artist — despite her inability to read a note of music.
Filmography (29 titles)
7.5MovieBuffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On
Self · 2022
5.5MovieStronger Together, Tous Ensemble
Self · 2020
7.6MovieRumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
Self · 2017
MovieThe Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code
Narrator · 2015
7.0MovieGreenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation
Self · 2013
ShowOn the Trail of Easy Rider: 40 Years On... Still Searching for America
Self · 2011
6.5MovieSaint Misbehavin': The Wavy Gravy Movie
Self · 2010
Buffy
Self · 2010
MovieBuffy Sainte-Marie: A Multimedia Life
Self · 2006
7.0MovieMaking a Noise: A Native American Musical Journey with Robbie Robertson
Self - Cree (archive footage) · 1999
Buffy Sainte-Marie: Up Where We Belong
Main Artist · 1996
6.3ShowHappily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
The Spirit (voice) · 1995
3.4MovieThe Broken Chain
Gesina 'Grandmother' / Seth's Wife · 1993
MovieUranium
Self - Narrator (voice) · 1990
5.8MovieBroken Rainbow
Translator's Voice (voice) · 1985
MovieWalkabout to Hollywood
Self · 1980
MovieA Walking Tour of Sesame Street
Buffy (archive footage) (uncredited) · 1979
6.3ShowAustin City Limits
Self · 1975
7.0ShowDinah!
Self · 1974
MovieAs Long as the Rivers Run
Self · 1971
5.2ShowThen Came Bronson
Tender Grass · 1969
6.8ShowThe Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
Self · 1969
6.0MovieFestival
Self · 1967
MovieThe Creative Person: The Folksinger
Self · 1965
6.7ShowTop of the Pops
Self · 1964
6.6ShowThe Merv Griffin Show
Self · 1962
7.5ShowThe Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self · 1962
6.5ShowThe Virginian
Nai'Be · 1962
5.4ShowKraft Music Hall
Self · 1958