Buffy Sainte-Marie
eBook - ePub

Buffy Sainte-Marie

The Authorized Biography

  1. 304 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Buffy Sainte-Marie

The Authorized Biography

About this book


"Buffy Sainte-Marie is an icon and inspiration. This book is necessary—an authorized insight into the making of a legend." —Terese Marie Mailhot, author of Heart Berries

A powerful, intimate look at the life of a beloved folk icon and activist.

Folk hero. Songwriter icon. Living legend. Buffy Sainte-Marie is all of these things and more. In this, Sainte-Marie’s first and only authorized biography, music critic Andrea Warner draws from more than sixty hours of exclusive interviews to offer a powerful, intimate look at the life of the beloved artist and everything that she has accomplished in her seventy-seven years (and counting).

Since her groundbreaking debut, 1964’s It’s My Way!, the Cree singer-songwriter has been a trailblazer and a tireless advocate for Indigenous rights and freedoms, an innovative artist, and a disruptor of the status quo. Establishing herself among the ranks of folk greats such as Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan, she has released more than twenty albums, survived being blacklisted by two U.S. presidents, and received countless accolades, including the only Academy Award ever to be won by a First Nations artist. But this biography does more than celebrate Sainte-Marie’s unparalleled talent as a songwriter and entertainer; packed with insight and knowledge, it offers an unflinchingly honest, heartbreakingly real portrait of the woman herself, including the challenges she experienced on the periphery of showbiz, her healing from the trauma of childhood and intimate partner violence, her commitment to activism, and her leadership in the protest movement.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. Prologue
  7. 1. Suffer the Little Children
  8. 2. Qu’Appelle Valley, Saskatchewan
  9. Interlude: Buffy Sainte-Marie on surviving abuse
  10. 3. Universal Soldier
  11. 4. It’s My Way
  12. 5. Cod’ine
  13. Interlude: Buffy Sainte-Marie on uncertainty
  14. 6. My Country ’Tis of Thy People You’re Dying
  15. 7. Better to Find Out for Yourself
  16. 8. Until It’s Time for You to Go
  17. Interlude: Buffy Sainte-Marie on fame
  18. 9. Not the Lovin’ Kind
  19. 10. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
  20. 11. Generation
  21. 12. Up Where We Belong
  22. Interlude: Buffy Sainte-Marie on happiness
  23. 13. The Priests of the Golden Bull
  24. 14. We’re Only Getting Started
  25. 15. No No Keshagesh
  26. Interlude: Buffy Sainte-Marie on decolonization
  27. 16. Power in the Blood
  28. 17. Carry It On
  29. Afterword: Buffy and Me
  30. Acknowledgments
  31. Discography
  32. Notes
  33. Bibliography
  34. Index
  35. Copyright Page