This artist, who was awarded an Oscar 30 years ago, is accused of being a complete fraud

In 1983, Buffy Sainte-Marie won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for Taylor Hackford’s An Officer and a Gentleman. Especially the beating “eye of the tiger” The singer from Rocky III becomes the first Indigenous person to win the coveted golden statue, he was born on a Canadian Indian reserve on February 20, 1941. More precisely in Saskatchewan, Chris Tom.

At least, that’s what the main party claimed, appearing on stage in traditional Indian attire and becoming a spokesperson for their cause. Winner of a Screen Actors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award or star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, “Buffy has devoted much of her time and resources to supporting Indigenous people through various educational programs.”tell us His official site bio.

“When he agreed to participate in the series VirginianThe condition was that all Native roles be played by Native actors, which was unprecedented at the time (…) Established in 1969, his Nyhevan Foundation for Native American Education offered fellowships for Native studies and students, two of whom became presidents. Tribal Colleges”.

A wonderful story to investigate CBC It came to be dark. Although Buffy Sainte-Marie has always maintained that she was adopted at a young age by a white couple from Massachusetts, Winifred and Albert Santamaria, before they found her family, her birth certificate, believed to have been lost according to her biographers, reveals that this is her real name. Except for Beverly Jean Santamaria. Facts that also seem to be confirmed by the 1950 US Census.

“What I know about my indigenous background I learned from my mother, who is part Mi’kmaw, and from the research I did later.”writes Buffy Sainte-Marie in a Facebook post dated Oct. 26 “My truth as I know it” (“My truth as I know it”). “My mother told me that I was adopted and that I was indigenous, but there was no documentation, as was often the case with many ‘indigenous children’ born in the 1940s.

“I have always tried to answer questions about my identity. For a long time I tried to find out information about my origins. Through this research it became clear to me and I have always been honest about it. The topic of not knowing where I come from or who my biological parents were and never could I will say. That’s why this questioning is as painful for me as it is for both of my families, whom I love very much.”

“I may not know where I was born, but I know who I am”concludes he who may see all his rewards taken away, as his adversaries demand.