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- Gnash3
This won’t mean much to most of you, but CBC saying Buffy is a pretendian is kinda crazy news
https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteracti…
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.
- the vampire slayer has not aged well.pango
- Yeah was reading this too. She looks native and was raised on a reserve by a native family who adopted her from another native family_niko
- So not sure how and why they claim she’s not native and if it even matters if that’s all she’s known and it’s how she was raised._niko
- Saying she was born in went to highscool in USA. Didn’t come to Canada til her teensGnash
- She’s a cool woman. Helped her with her very first website, back when everything was still dial-up modemsGnash
- Sorry just reading the article now, I read her interview earlier where she said how hurt she was about these accusations and then I read up on her life_niko
- —-but if this article is true it’s quite the hoax she’s perpetrated over her lifetime, just wow._niko
- lol her uncle told a local newspaper in 1967 that she was full of shit and had no Indian blood in her...just incredible_niko
- Oh, wow. That's wild.Continuity
- lol She joins a long list of wannabe Indians that are actually Italian like wrestler chief jay strongbow and the crying Indian from tv_niko
- What you also have to question is that to keep up appearances she was always over-dressing up as a native and I wonder how much that influenced other_niko
- ...indigenous people to do the same since she was such an icon when in fact they would have been happy dressing more contemporary like everyone else_niko
- Man, looking back at her performances and images of her when she was younger and with the benefit of hindsight, her eye shape is a a dead giveaway she looks..._niko
- ... italian and lacks the epicanthic fold typically associated with indigenous peoples eyes_niko
- But thanks for sending me down this rabbit hole Gnash, just fascinating, what a story._niko
- I was on her Wikipedia page yesterday and not a mention of anything, today, it’s completely changed to reflect the cbc article._niko
- Her adoptive tribe doesn't care they see her as one of their own and rightly so but she continues to double down, just fess up_niko
- https://twitter.com/…_niko
- This is an incredible story, truly. It's a bit tough to digest, just because it was just accepted fact when I was growing up that was Canada's pre-eminent ...Continuity
- ... First Nations folk singer and, as such, a national treasure. Like niko, though, the more I read and think about it all, the more it unravels. Surreal.Continuity