The biography of Buffy Sainte-Marie on her official website no longer claims she is a Cree woman “likely” born on the Piapot First Nation in Saskatchewan.
The changes were made on Buffysainte-marie.com days after CBC released its Oct. 27 investigation that questioned the famous singer’s decades-long claim to Cree ancestry.
In her first statement to CBC News since the investigation published, Sainte-Marie wrote that she removed material from her website in order to limit the “criticism, threats and abuse” supporters who have defended her in public have faced since the investigation was published.
“I have an obligation to protect them,” her emailed statement said. “And it is for that
