Buffy Sainte-Marie.... Indigenous or Not?

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Everything is complicated due to the layers of lies that start in classic scripts ... we are even told it is evil to know the difference ...

The great powers must have their way and vitue goes on .. we rarely can follow truth! May be due to biases ... and lack of depth questioning ...

Etudes? Said to be cocky in definition of tyud ... sometimes mul*tyud, or even polytude ...
 
She was accepted by her Indigenous tribe and that is what counts. I’m talking about Buffy St.Marie. They are two very different people. A comparison isn’t necessary and I think it takes us down a racist rabbit hole. It’s not our place to question it’s the tribes’ if they have doubt. It’s not our place to put doubt in them either. Ultimately I don’t care what the gene test says if the tribes have adopted them for their work. In Buffy’s case she was considered native her whole life.
 
All folk tend to conflict because lets face it those that demand more competitive business do not like cooperation ... powers hate what they cannot observe ... that sacred stuff! Look what piety did to the Gnostics ...
 
Kimmio Laughterlove said:
She was accepted by her Indigenous tribe and that is what counts. I’m talking about Buffy St.Marie. They are two very different people. A comparison isn’t necessary and I think it takes us down a racist rabbit hole. It’s not our place to question it’s the tribes’ if they have doubt.
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Yup....but that's just our opinion, and it doesn't count.
 
Kimmio Laughterlove said:
You started the thread though lol so I guess we should stop commentary.
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I think the threads important to see things differently. As for myself, just commenting has led me down a rabbit hole as you say, and my opinion has changed back and forth over time, just today. I've learned things... the more we talk, and hear from others and listen we may become better informed to understand, IMO.
If we listen to what indigenous think , opinions will vary too.
This is a good exercise for this world today, that gifts us with diverse understandings of those different than us.
 
Waterfall said:
I think the threads important to see things differently. As for myself, just commenting has led me down a rabbit hole as you say, and my opinion has changed back and forth over time, just today. I've learned things... the more we talk, and hear from others and listen we may become better informed to understand, IMO.
If we listen to what indigenous think , opinions will vary too.
This is a good exercise for this world today, that gifts us with diverse understandings of those different than us.
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Can you imagine this story being continuous because of what we don't know? Few would admit ... thus fractures ...
 
paradox3 said:
Maybe. Maybe not.

There are some indigenous voices saying that being adopted by an indigenous tribe does not make one indigenous.
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There are always counters due to some dark force ... some call will, desire or other words for the power of grab ...
 
"Tribes" was a big thing in education a few years ago.

But, sure, let's kick it to the curb if it's problematic.

I revise my earlier post:
paradox3 said:
Maybe. Maybe not.

There are some indigenous voices saying that being adopted by an indigenous tribe does not make one indigenous.
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Let's say indigenous group.
 
It’s already published online
According to this, the family says that Buffy had threatened the family in the past with legal actions if they would bring that up- and I would assume that the family now might be in a more settled position financially and Buffy having declared her retirement, they don’t worry that much anymore. I think the tendency of questioning someone’s status is a new thing of recent years same as cultural appropriation. I mean, considering all the racism that usually goes with being native, I wouldn’t have thought any non-native would want to volunteer for that.
Not sure if it should be the CBC uncovering that- but they also might have native staff working for them who would find the abuse of status an issue.
 
Now, there is some people who look native and some who don’t- Buffy doesn’t really look like a white settler from Massachusetts. If you look at the pic of her niece- they do not really look related.
 
If you look at the Cbc article, there is certainly a lot of facts collected. And it was an indigenous person who started the digging after seeing the contradictions.
As an artist, it wouldn’t be surprising if she was a bit eccentric. Maybe combined with some personality mental health issues that led her down this path.
 
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