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submitted 11 months ago by Grappling7155@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

Buffy Sainte-Marie’s claims to Indigenous ancestry are being contradicted by members of the iconic singer-songwriter’s own family and an extensive CBC investigation.

By Geoff Leo, Roxanna Woloshyn and Linda Guerriero • CBC News

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[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 months ago

It's not just a question of blood quantum .... it's basically a question of theft .... theft of identity, theft of culture and misrepresentation.

If I claimed I was cousin and I made a million dollars because of it, how would you feel about it? If everything I own, everything I did, every award I gained and every time I was celebrated it was because everyone said I was your cousin ... how would you feel about that?

It doesn't matter if there is no money involved .... but it matters a lot when someone starts making millions out of it all.

It's also sadistic .... to think that a person could build an identity, a persona, a career worth millions on the backs of oppressed, poor people that have no chance, and then show no remorse for it all. Her career is based on what she stole from people who already had nothing. The world gave her millions so that she could share a few thousand.

It's sickening ... and to defend all that or be apologetic about it all is not right either.

this post was submitted on 27 Oct 2023
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