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Democracy Now! Special: An Hour of Music and Conversation with Legendary Native American Singer-Songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie

In a Democracy Now! special, an hour of conversation and music with Cree Indian singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie. In the turbulent 1960s, she was just out of college but already famous for her beautiful voice and moving lyrics in songs like “Universal Soldier” and “Now that the Buffalo's Gone.” Over the years, Buffy Sainte-Marie has worked with the American Indian Movement, but also with Sesame Street , and even Hollywood, winning an Academy Award for the song “Up Where We Belong” in 1982. She's won international recognition for her music, has a PhD in fine arts, and began a foundation for American Indian Education that she remains closely involved with. We speak with the folk icon about her life, her music, censorship, and her singing and speaking out about the struggles of Native American peoples for the past four decades. She also performs live in the firehouse studio. [includes rush transcript]
 
Guest:
Buffy Sainte-Marie , Canadian First Nations singer-songwriter and activist. Her latest album, her eighteenth, is called Running for the Drum .
 
AMY GOODMAN: Today, a Democracy Now! special for Columbus Day, we spend the hour with the Cree Indian singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie. But first we go back with her to 1965. Buffy Sainte-Marie was on Pete Seeger's show Rainbow Quest .

 

BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE: I think that most Americans feel that the Indians lost because of fair fights and superior odds and superior weaponry. That's because that's the only side of the story that's been told. I'll sing you a song that tells a little of the other side.

AMY GOODMAN: “My Country 'Tis of Thy People You're Dying,” a 1965 performance by Canadian First Nations singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie. She was among the earliest if not the first celebrity to challenge the idea that, quote, “American history really began when Columbus set sail out of Europe.” We'll hear more about this song later in this special broadcast, this hour of conversation and music with Buffy Sainte-Marie.
Today is supposed to commemorate the arrival of Christopher Columbus to the so-called “new world” in 1492. But the holiday has long caused anger among Native Americans who object to the official celebration of a man who opened the door to European colonization and the exploitation of native peoples in North America. Observance of this holiday is far from uniform across the country. South Dakota marks the occasion as “Native American Day.” Meanwhile in Denver, Colorado's annual Columbus Day parade is met by protesters decrying the genocide of indigenous peoples.
Well, the award-winning folk icon Buffy Sainte-Marie has been writing and singing out about the struggles of Native American and First Nations people for well over four decades. In the turbulent '60s, she was just out of college but already famous for her beautiful voice and moving lyrics and songs like “Universal Soldier,” “Now that the Buffalo's Gone,” and “Until It's Time for You to Go.” She was Billboard's Best New Artist following the release of her first record.
Appearing on several television talk shows in the early part of the decade, this is how she explained her focus on Native issues.

AMY GOODMAN: That clip from a documentary titled Buffy Sainte-Marie: A Multimedia Life , just out, along with her latest album, her eighteenth, called Running for the Drum . It's her first album in thirteen years and won the Canadian Juno Award for Aboriginal Album of the Year.
Over the years, Buffy Sainte-Marie has worked with the American Indian Movement, but also with Sesame Street , and even Hollywood, winning an Academy Award for the song “Up Where We Belong” in 1982. She's won international recognition for her music, has a PhD in fine arts, and began a foundation for American Indian Education that she remains closely involved with.
I sat down with Buffy Sainte-Marie recently here in our firehouse studio. We're going to go to break with one of her songs, and then we'll talk about her life, music, activism and politics. Stay with us.

AMY GOODMAN: Buffy Sainte-Marie singing “Now that the Buffalo's Gone. This is Democracy Now! , democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report, as we bring you this hour special.
While many celebrate Columbus Day, others observe Indigenous Peoples Day. We're spending the hour with Cree Indian singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie. We speak with her about her life, her music, her censorship and the singing and speaking out about native struggles for the last four decades.
When she came to our firehouse studio a few weeks ago, I sat down with her and, well, asked her to begin where she was began; I asked her where she was born.

AMY GOODMAN: Singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie. After hitting the top of the charts in the early '60s, the outspoken performer suddenly disappeared from the mainstream airwaves during the Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon years.
AMY GOODMAN: Native American singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie. Her new album Running for the Drum is just out. We'll have the video of her single “No No Keshagesh” on our website at democracynow.org.

 


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