excerpt from leonard cohen's 1966 novel beautiful losers, from which buffy sainte marie adapted into her phenomenal song god is alive, magic is afoot 

buffy sainte-marie on the back cover of her album “sweet america”, 1976🪶

Quite stunned to discover, after watching this new documentary, that Buffy Sainte-Marie was a white girl all along, and not a Native American from the Cree tribe, as she has claimed her whole 60-year career.

As with the similar revelations last year about seventies activist 'Sacheen Littlefeather', it's crazy to me that left-wing folks pretending to be another race goes back way beyond modern SJWs like Rachel Dolezal, Shaun King and Elizabeth Warren.

The fetishization of the perceived victimhood status of various racial groups is deeply twisted and perverse, but when people are rewarded with successful careers, popularity and personal fortunes from pretending to be a member of those groups, it's particularly distasteful, and amazing it is allowed to happen as often as it appears it does.

Phil Ochs and Buffy Sainte-Marie

buffy sainte-marie, may 1966 (photo by reg burkett)

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Warning: This story contains distressing details.

Songwriter, educator and human rights advocate Buffy Sainte-Marie says the Pope's upcoming visit to Canada and expected apology for the church's involvement in the residential school system won't mean a thing if he doesn't call for the dissolution of the Doctrine of Discovery.

"The apology is just the beginning, of course," she said.

The doctrine is an international framework based on a series of decrees from the Pope, called "papal bulls," that were released in the 1400 and 1500s. This framework laid the legal and moral foundation for how Canada and other countries came to be colonized by European settlers.

As Sainte-Marie put it, "The Doctrine of Discovery essentially says it's okay if you're a [Christian] European explorer … to go anywhere in the world and either convert people and enslave, or you've got to kill them."

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girls who rock- buffy sainte-marie!! 🪶🦅

canadian folk musicians of the 60s/70s

The Unwanted Animal (The Amazing Devil)

And our screaming joins in unison/I cry out to the lord/Cause if we join our hands in prayer enough/To god I imagine it all starts to sound like applause..."Be good to me, " I beg of him/Be good, be good, be good, be good, be good, be good, be good/And he replies "No, no, not I"

"Holy *fuck* this song. I fucked up my vocal chords with this one too. The "unwanted animal" is (to me), the narrator's unhappiness in the relationship. She doesn't feel safe/comfortable (you grip me like an animal/that you're about to spear) and she doesn't feel like she can say it ("be good to me" I whisper/and you say "what?"/ and I say "nothing, dear") and this unhappiness is eating her up but she just wants to ignore it (I'm the paper cut that kills you/I'm the priest that you ignore) until she can't anymore and everything falls apart around her"

Universal Soldier (Buffy Sainte Marie)

He says it's for the peace of all/He's the one who must decide/Who's to live and who's to die/And he never sees the writing on the wall

"Anti war, a brave stand up but also begging these young men to think about what they're doing. And this universal soldier has been the singular source of blame for eternity and will continue to be, even though he knows what he's doing is wrong but he thinks fighting will put an end to war, so he does it."

The Unwanted Animal submitted by @ceaseless-rambler

Buffy Sainte-Marie, 1968

“I’d go down all the time, when Buffy was in town, to watch her play. And one of the things that amazed me about her was, she used to wear flamenco shoes at that time. Like a...kind of a...with a little heel and she would stand on one foot with her leg cocked up behind in the classical movie kiss position, y’know, when a girl lifts up one leg. With her eyes closed—and she never banged her nose on the microphone. That amazed me, I’d think ‘My god’...I used to sing with my eyes closed and I always banged my nose against the microphone. So I was very impressed with the ballet, as well with her writing. Because there weren’t many women writing songs at that time. Buffy was building a repertoire, and her songs were intelligent, crafted, and she was a stunning performer.”—Joni Mitchell on Buffy Sainte-Marie.

Also a lot of other folks but this is a good start.