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Buffy Sainte-Marie is a singer-songwriter, musician, composer, visual artist, pacifist, educator, social activist, and philanthropist, born on February 20, 1941, in Stoneham, Massachusetts. She has at times identified as Cree and claimed to have been born in Saskatchewan, Canada, to an indigenous family, although she stated that her Canadian birth certificate was lost or destroyed. In late 2023, she faced controversy for allegedly fabricating her indigenous background and concealing her Massachusetts birth to white parents of Italian ancestry, as revealed in a CBC documentary that uncovered her original U.S. birth certificate from 1941. Her appointment to the Order of Canada was terminated on January 3, 2025, by an ordinance signed by Gov. Gen. Mary Simon, with no reason provided for the termination. Sainte-Marie emerged from the Greenwich Village scene in New York during the 1960s, with her music primarily categorized as folk and traditional. She also recorded a mostly-country album titled "I'm Gonna Be a Country Girl Again." Notably, she won an Oscar in the mid-1980s for co-writing the hit "Up Where We Belong" for the soundtrack of the film "Officer And A Gentleman."

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