Singer Buffy Sainte-Marie, whose purported Indigenous lineage has been called into question, says she has returned her Order of Canada “with a good heart” and restated that she never claimed to be Canadian.
In her first comment since she was stripped of the award in February, Sainte-Marie, 84, said that she is an American citizen and holds a U.S. passport, but was adopted as a young adult by a Cree family in Saskatchewan, according to the Canadian Press.
She said that she “made it completely clear” she was not Canadian to government representatives and to former prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau when he asked her to perform for
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