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Buffy Sainte-Marie Is an Indigenous Icon, Singer, and Activist Ruth Hopkins © David Redfern Buffy Sainte-Marie is an Indigenous icon. The Canadian singer, songwriter, and activist first rose to prominence in the 1960s, when real flesh-and-blood Native people were seldom seen in pop culture, essentially assumed to have gone extinct. Her music was wildly popular and commercially successful, but she forged her own path, unafraid of controversy and sharing harsh truths from her own Indigenous perspective. Sainte-Marie comes from humble beginnings. A member of the Cree First Nation, she was born on a reserve in the Qu Appelle Valley of Saskatchewan, Canada but like many Native children, she was taken from her birth family at a young age. She was adopted by a family in Massachusetts, later attending the University of Massachusetts Amherst. It was there that her musical talent really began to blossom. One of her earliest songs, Universal Soldier, was an anti-war a

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