The Indigenous Women's Collective is urging the Juno Awards Committee to review the 2018 category and reconsider all Indigenous artists for recognition. They claim that Buffy Sainte-Marie, who won the award that year, deceived the public about her Indigenous heritage.
"We invite the Juno Awards Committee to revisit this 2018 category and explore ways of righting a past wrong. All Indigenous artists in this 2018 category … should be reconsidered for this rightful honour," the Indigenous Women's Collective said in a statement late Sunday.
CBC obtained Sainte-Marie's birth certificate, which says she was born in 1941 in Stoneham, Mass., to Albert and Winifred Sainte-Marie. The document lists the baby and parents as white and includes a signature of an attending physician. The singer also provided an affidavit from a former lawyer tasked with looking into her Indigenous heritage. It says oral history from Saskatchewan explained Sainte-Marie was born north of Piapot First Nation to a single woman "who could not care for her.''
The Office of the Secretary to the Governor General said in a statement that it's aware of the report about Sainte-Marie's ancestry but does not comment on the possibility of honours being revoked. A former British cyberespionage employee who had become angry and resentful toward his agency's work was sentenced Monday to life in prison for attempted murder in the vicious stabbing of an American intelligence worker assigned to the U.K.
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