Personal Info
Buffy Sainte-Marie
Acting
Biography
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 fo…
Filmography
Movies
Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On
as Self
Stronger Together, Tous Ensemble
as Self
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
as Self
The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code
as Narrator
Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation
as Self
Saint Misbehavin': The Wavy Gravy Movie
as Self
Buffy
as Self
Buffy Sainte-Marie: A Multimedia Life
as Self
Making a Noise: A Native American Musical Journey with Robbie Robertson
as Self - Cree (archive footage)
Buffy Sainte-Marie: Up Where We Belong
as Main Artist
TV Shows
On the Trail of Easy Rider: 40 Years On... Still Searching for America
as Self · 1 ep.
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
as The Spirit (voice) · 1 ep.
Austin City Limits
as Self · 1 ep.
Dinah!
as Self · 1 ep.
Then Came Bronson
as Tender Grass · 1 ep.
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
as Self · 1 ep.
Top of the Pops
as Self · 1 ep.
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self · 2 ep.
The Virginian
as Nai'Be · 1 ep.
The Merv Griffin Show
as Self · 2 ep.