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Buffy Sainte-Marie is a Actor and Sound Canadienne born on 20 february 1941 at Saskatchewan (Canada)
Buffy Sainte-Marie, OC (formerly Beverly Sainte-Marie; born February 20, 1941) is a Native Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, composer, visual artist, educator, pacifist, and social activist. Throughout her career in all of these areas, her work has focused on issues of Indigenous peoples of the Americas. Her singing and writing repertoire also includes subjects of love, war, religion, and mysticism.
In 1997 she founded the Cradleboard Teaching Project, an educational curriculum devoted to better understanding Native Americans. She has won recognition and many awards and honours for both her music and her work in education and social activism.
In 1964 on a return trip to the Piapot Cree reserve in Canada for a Powwow she was welcomed and (in a Cree Nation context) adopted by the youngest son of Chief Piapot, Emile Piapot and his wife, who added to Sainte-Marie's cultural value of, and place in, native culture.
In 1968 she married surfing teacher Dewain Bugbee of Hawaii; they divorced in 1971. She married Sheldon Wolfchild from Minnesota in 1975; they have a son, Dakota "Cody" Starblanket Wolfchild. That union also ended and she married Jack Nitzsche in the early 1980s. She currently lives in Hawaii.
Although not a Bahá'í herself, she became an active friend of the Bahá'í Faith by the mid-1970s when she is said to have appeared in the 1973 Third National Bahá'í Youth Conference at the Oklahoma State Fairgrounds, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and has continued to appear at concerts, conferences and conventions of that religion since then. In 1992, she appeared in the musical event prelude to the Bahá'í World Congress, a double concert "Live Unity: The Sound of the World" in 1992 with video broadcast and documentary. In the video documentary of the event Sainte-Marie is seen on the Dini Petty Show explaining the Bahá'í teaching of progressive revelation. She also appears in the 1985 video "Mona With The Children" by Douglas John Cameron. However, while she supports a universal sense of religion, she does not subscribe to any particular religion: "I gave a lot of support to Bahá'í people in the '80s and '90s … Bahá'í people, as people of all religions, is something I'm attracted to … I don't belong to any religion. … I have a huge religious faith or spiritual faith but I feel as though religion … is the first thing that racketeers exploit. … But that doesn't turn me against religion …"
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Birth name Beverly Sainte-Marie
Nationality Canada
Birth 20 february 1941 (83 years) at Saskatchewan (Canada)
Awards Officer of the Order of Canada
Nationality Canada
Birth 20 february 1941 (83 years) at Saskatchewan (Canada)
Awards Officer of the Order of Canada
In 1997 she founded the Cradleboard Teaching Project, an educational curriculum devoted to better understanding Native Americans. She has won recognition and many awards and honours for both her music and her work in education and social activism.
Biography
Buffy Sainte-Marie was born in 1941 on the Piapot Cree First Nation Reserve in the Qu'Appelle Valley, Saskatchewan, Canada. She was later adopted, growing up in Massachusetts, with parents Albert and Winifred Sainte-Marie. She attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst, earning degrees in teaching and Oriental philosophy and graduating in the top ten of her class. She went on to earn a Ph.D in Fine Art from the University of Massachusetts in 1983.In 1964 on a return trip to the Piapot Cree reserve in Canada for a Powwow she was welcomed and (in a Cree Nation context) adopted by the youngest son of Chief Piapot, Emile Piapot and his wife, who added to Sainte-Marie's cultural value of, and place in, native culture.
In 1968 she married surfing teacher Dewain Bugbee of Hawaii; they divorced in 1971. She married Sheldon Wolfchild from Minnesota in 1975; they have a son, Dakota "Cody" Starblanket Wolfchild. That union also ended and she married Jack Nitzsche in the early 1980s. She currently lives in Hawaii.
Although not a Bahá'í herself, she became an active friend of the Bahá'í Faith by the mid-1970s when she is said to have appeared in the 1973 Third National Bahá'í Youth Conference at the Oklahoma State Fairgrounds, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and has continued to appear at concerts, conferences and conventions of that religion since then. In 1992, she appeared in the musical event prelude to the Bahá'í World Congress, a double concert "Live Unity: The Sound of the World" in 1992 with video broadcast and documentary. In the video documentary of the event Sainte-Marie is seen on the Dini Petty Show explaining the Bahá'í teaching of progressive revelation. She also appears in the 1985 video "Mona With The Children" by Douglas John Cameron. However, while she supports a universal sense of religion, she does not subscribe to any particular religion: "I gave a lot of support to Bahá'í people in the '80s and '90s … Bahá'í people, as people of all religions, is something I'm attracted to … I don't belong to any religion. … I have a huge religious faith or spiritual faith but I feel as though religion … is the first thing that racketeers exploit. … But that doesn't turn me against religion …"
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, 1h27Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentaire sur une personnalité
Actors Buffy Sainte-Marie, Bonnie Raitt
Roles Self
Rating74%
The Broken Chain (1993)
, 1h33Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Pierce Brosnan, Graham Greene, Eric Schweig, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Wes Studi, Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman
Roles Gesina 'Grandmother' / Seth's Wife
Rating58%
L'histoire de 2 frères Iroquis pris dans la tourmente de la guerre révolutionnaire.
Son of the Morning Star (1991)
, 3h7Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Western
Actors Gary Cole, Rosanna Arquette, Stanley Anderson, Edward Blatchford, Rodney Arnold Grant, George Dickerson
Roles Kate Bighead (voice)
Rating72%
The film, in two parts, begins in 1876 when the Terry-Gibbon column relieves the remnants of the 7th Cavalry that had survived the Battle of the Little Bighorn. They discover Custer's battalion has been annihilated, and the film 'flashes back' and tells Custer's story from the point of view/narrative of his wife, Elizabeth, beginning with the Kansas campaign of the mid-1860s.
Broken Rainbow (1985)
, 1h10Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Historical
Themes Environmental films, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about law, Documentary films about environmental issues, Documentary films about historical events, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about politics, Political films
Actors Buffy Sainte-Marie, Dennis Banks, Martin Sheen, Burgess Meredith
Roles Translator's Voice (voice)
Rating67%
Festival (1967)
, 1h37Directed by Murray Lerner
Origin USA
Genres Musical theatre, Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Musical films
Actors Theodore Bikel, Bob Dylan, Donovan, Johnny Cash, Buffy Sainte-Marie
Roles Self
Rating74%
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Where the Spirit Lives (1990)
, 1h36Directed by Bruce Pittman
Origin Canada
Genres Drama
Actors Ann-Marie MacDonald, David Hemblen, Ron White, Sarah Williams, Graham Greene, Ron White
Roles Music
Rating74%
In 1937, a young First Nations girl named Ashtoh-Komi is kidnapped along with several other children from a village as part of a Canadian policy to educate First Nations children and assimilate them into Canadian/British society. She is taken to a boarding school, where she is forced to adopt Western Euro-centric ways and learn English, often under harsh treatment. One teacher is portrayed as sympathetic and she becomes repelled by the bigotry of others at the school. She offers Ashtoh-Komi help. Forced to take the name Amelia, Ashtoh-Komi determines to hold on to her First Nations identity and encourages her younger sibling to do so as well. She plans their escape.
An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
, 1h59Directed by Taylor Hackford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romantic drama, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Richard Gere, Debra Winger, Louis Gossett Jr., David Keith, Lisa Blount, Robert Loggia
Rating70%
Since his early adolescence, Zachary "Zack" Mayo (Richard Gere) has been living in the Philippines with his alcoholic and promiscuous father, U.S. Navy chief boatswain's mate Byron Mayo (Robert Loggia), following the suicide of his mother (who is never named in the story). Now, having recently returned to the United States and just graduated from college, Zack notifies his father that he has decided to sign up for the Navy's Aviation Officer Candidate School (AOCS) in order to fulfill his childhood dream of becoming a Navy pilot and flying jets. Despite Byron's objections, Zack leaves for AOCS, hoping that the choice will greatly improve his life.
Spirit of the Wind (1979)
, 1h38Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Sports films
Actors George Clutesi, Slim Pickens, Chief Dan George
Rating70%
The movie is a semi-biographical story based upon the early life and rise to prominence of Native American dog musher George Attla, Jr. (1933–2015). Attla, known as "the Huslia Hustler," took his nickname from one of his mentors, Jimmy Huntington, who first began winning races during Attla's childhood. In recent generations, this nickname has become associated with Attla far more than with Huntington. Attla was a leading star of the 1960s and 1970s in the sport of sprint dog sled racing. He won the Fur Rendezvous World Championship race, held in Anchorage, Alaska, 10 times between 1958 and 1982. He also won 8 championships in the Open North American Championship race, held in Fairbanks, Alaska. In addition, despite his mushing experience being geared more towards sprint than distance racing, Attla competed in the inaugural Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in 1973, placing fifth. In a 2011 interview, Attla spoke of the popularity of the Iditarod, and how sprint racing "is now a second-class sport" as a result.
The Strawberry Statement (1970)
, 1h49Directed by Stuart Hagmann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Bruce Davison, Kim Darby, Bud Cort, Andrew Parks, Bob Balaban, Kristina Holland
Rating65%
Simon (Bruce Davison), a student at a fictional university in San Francisco (based on San Francisco State College) is indifferent to the student protests around him, until walking in on a naked woman (Kristina Holland) in his dormitory roommate's bed. While she quickly runs over to the toilets to dress, Simon protests to his roommate that their time should only be devoted to studying, so they can get good jobs and lots of money.