A detailed investigation by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has raised questions about the indigenous persona of singer/songwriterBuffy Sainte-Marie.
Sainte-Marie, 82, has claimed that she was born on Tribal land and adopted by white parents.
TheCBCcountered that in a report published Friday and in an accompanying episode of the documentary seriesThe Fifth Estate.
Buffy Sainte-MarieTommaso Boddi/Getty Images
Themediaoutlet obtained a birth certificate saying Sainte-Marie was born to parents of European ancestry in Massachusetts.
showed Beverly Jean Santamaria and her parents listed as white.
The CBC said it had the document authenticated by Stoneham town clerk Maria Sagarino.
The Piapot are the Cree family that officially adopted her as a young adult in the 60s.
Sainte-Marie herself raised the brothers claims in her 2018 autobiography.
The brother died in 2011.
