Acting · Born February 20, 1941
Canadian-born American singer-songwriter, guitarist, political activist, and visual artist known especially for her use of music to promote awareness of issues affecting Native Americans. Orphaned as an infant in Canada when her mother, a Plains Cree, died in an auto accident, Sainte-Marie was adopted by an U.S. couple of Mi’kmaq ancestry and raised in Massachusetts & Maine. Her earliest days as a self-taught folk singer were spent shaking up the coffeehouses and consciousnesses in Greenwich Village and helping Joni Mitchell get discovered. Along with her lifelong commitment to and advocacy for Indigenous and Aboriginal people around the world, she has changed the education system from within, and maintained an unwavering passion for social justice, equality and the Earth mixed with her love of sound and songs. Her legacy is that of as an ever-curious, ever-evolving, and technologically pioneering musician, producer, composer and artist — despite her inability to read a note of music.
MovieBuffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On
2022
as Self
MovieStronger Together, Tous Ensemble
2020
as Self
MovieRumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
2017
as Self
MovieThe Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code
2015
as Narrator
MovieGreenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation
2013
as Self
TVOn the Trail of Easy Rider: 40 Years On... Still Searching for America
2011
as Self
MovieSaint Misbehavin': The Wavy Gravy Movie
2010
as Self
Buffy
2010
as Self
MovieBuffy Sainte-Marie: A Multimedia Life
2006
as Self
MovieMaking a Noise: A Native American Musical Journey with Robbie Robertson
1999
as Self - Cree (archive footage)
Buffy Sainte-Marie: Up Where We Belong
1996
as Main Artist
TVHappily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995
as The Spirit (voice)
MovieThe Broken Chain
1993
as Gesina 'Grandmother' / Seth's Wife
MovieUranium
1990
as Self - Narrator (voice)
MovieBroken Rainbow
1985
as Translator's Voice (voice)
MovieWalkabout to Hollywood
1980
as Self
MovieA Walking Tour of Sesame Street
1979
as Buffy (archive footage) (uncredited)
TVAustin City Limits
1975
as Self
TVDinah!
1974
as Self
MovieAs Long as the Rivers Run
1971
as Self
TVThen Came Bronson
1969
as Tender Grass
TVThe Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
1969
as Self
MovieFestival
1967
as Self
MovieThe Creative Person: The Folksinger
1965
as Self
TVTop of the Pops
1964
as Self
TVThe Merv Griffin Show
1962
as Self
TVThe Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self
TVThe Virginian
1962
as Nai'Be
TVKraft Music Hall
1958
as Self
