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Buffy Sainte-Marie Returns Order of Canada Honor ‘With a Good Heart,’ Says She Never Claimed to Be Canadian
Singer Buffy Sainte-Marie, who was stripped of the Order of Canada due to questions about her lineage, has returned the award 'with a good heart.'
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 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. “It was very lovely to host the medals for awhile, but I return them with a good heart,” she wrote, adding that she’s “lived with uncertainty” about her parentage and unsuccessfully explored the possibility that she was born in Canada.
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