Following 2023 news reports that questioned the Indigenous ancestry of Buffy Sainte-Marie, the Governor General has terminated the singer's membership in the Order of Canada.
FILE - Buffy Sainte-Marie performs at the Toronto International Film Festival's kick off event in Toronto on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022., the federal government’s official newspaper in which it publishes the text of new laws, regulations and other notices and decisions., saying it found a birth certificate that indicated she was born in 1941 in Massachusetts and listed that both her and her parents as white.
Ntawnis Piapot, the great-granddaughter of Emile Piapot and Clara Starblanket, both deceased, who adopted Sainte-Marie, told Global News at the time that the claim Sainte-Marie has no Indigenous ancestryBuffy Sainte-Marie / Facebook “It’s really insulting that someone would question my great grandfather’s choice and right to adopt Buffy as his daughter,” Piapot told Global News.“No one has the authority to question our sovereignty, we are a sovereign nation, we are sovereign people and our adoption practices have been intact since time immemorial.
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