Buffy Sainte-Marie
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Oct 16, 2026
Robert GordonGUEST
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Robert GordonGUEST
And Peter, and we did Buffy Sainte-Marie.
Robert GordonGUEST
We did-
Joe LauroGUEST
John Sebastian, who unfortunately, I was so intimidated 'cause he was such an idol of mine.
Joe WakefieldHOST
And for some reason-
Kansas BowlingGUEST
But, but yeah, I was able to get a Scott Walker song, a Monkey song, Bobby Gentry song, and a Buffy Sainte-Marie song.
Kansas BowlingGUEST
Um-
Joe WakefieldHOST
Oh.
Nick EstesGUEST
It's just a family story.
Nick EstesGUEST
Um, but he was kind of th- these two, uh, people who testified on his behalf, uh, one was an Indigenous academic, and the other was Buffy Sainte-Marie [chuckles] of all people.
Nick EstesGUEST
[laughs] Um-
Sina RahmaniHOST
But can you-
Sina RahmaniHOST
Can you say who she is if, in case people don't know?
Nick EstesGUEST
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Nick EstesGUEST
So, um, Buffy Sainte-Marie was, um, Buffy Sainte-Marie is, I should say, um, a famous, uh, famous in, more so famous in Canada than the United States, but pretty well known in Ind- Indian country.
Nick EstesGUEST
She's a, a, a quote-unquote "Native musician" who has been recently outed as being essentially an Italian posing as an Indigenous person for, for decades, right? Winning multiple awards, probably one of the more kind of famous people coming out of Indian country.
Hannah McGregorHOST
She also wrote a bunch of books.
Hannah McGregorHOST
In addition to The Time of My Life, Andrea wrote We oughta Know: How Four Women Ruled the '90s and Changed Canadian Music, Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography, Rise Up and Sing! Power, Protest, and Activism in Music, which is a book for kids, so any of you out there with kiddos in your lives who wanna introduce them to the history of radical musicians, fabulous book.
Hannah McGregorHOST
And most recently, Kihikani: A Memoir of Healing, which she co-authored with Inuk singer and songwriter Susan Aglukark.
Marcelle KosmanHOST
We will miss Andrea with our whole hearts, and we're grateful that we can share this episode with all of you.
Marcelle KosmanHOST
Please welcome Andrea Warner, pronouns she/her.
Marcelle KosmanHOST
Andrea lives in Vancouver on the territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.
Marcelle KosmanHOST
Her books include Rise Up and Sing! Power, Protest, and Activism in Music and Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography.
Marcelle KosmanHOST
Andrea is also the co-writer and associate producer of the documentary Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On and the co-host of the weekly feminist pop culture podcast Pop This.
Tommy OrangeGUEST
S- I guess when I found out for sure, I can't say I was totally surprised, but, you know, when you look back at, at Thomas King and his life, um, as a Native person, y- you're understanding something different if it was told from a non-Native person.
Tommy OrangeGUEST
You know, I, I write in the piece that it'd be like finding out, finding out that, that Buffy Sainte-Marie was not Native, for example, would be like finding out Elvis was an alien.
Chris BentleyHOST
Uh, you mentioned Buffy Sainte-Marie, the, the singer.
Chris BentleyHOST
Uh, she's one of several people you list in the piece of people who say they have Native identity and eventually are found not to have Native identity.
Chris BentleyHOST
A, a big celebrated singer.
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He was singing, and I was a dancer.
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To the heartbeat drum, heartbeat drum.
Chris BentleyHOST
Tommy, y- y- you write that, "I can't stress enough how big of a deal it was inside the lives and hearts of Native people who loved her, that Buffy Sainte-Marie is not actually Native." I mean, th- these, these are big emotions when people find, find these things out, yeah?
FrankHOST
about this guy.
FrankHOST
We talked more about Buffy St. Marie and her husband who was on Cops that one night.
FrankHOST
That's true.
FrankHOST
How could we not? Exactly.
Carley ThorneHOST
I feel like they have an airport there.
Blair MacMillanHOST
I wonder if that's why Buffy Sainte-Marie said that she was from Saskatchewan.
Blair MacMillanHOST
She said she was from Wapella, Saskatchewan.
Carley ThorneHOST
I don't know.
Blair MacMillanHOST
I don't know.
Carley ThorneHOST
She's not?
Blair MacMillanHOST
Buffy Sainte-Marie?
Carley ThorneHOST
Yeah.
Adam C. MorrisHOST
In sum, 39 episodes were filmed.
Adam C. MorrisHOST
Of the many people who Pete interviewed and hosted, these included but were not limited to Tom Paxton, Tommy Makem and the Clancy Brothers, Puerto Rican musicians Rosa Valentin and Rafael Martinez, Elizabeth Cotten, Yiddish folklorist Ruth Rubin, Jean Ritchie, Bernice Reagon, Doc Watson with Fred Price and Clint Howard, Grant Rodgers, a Catskill dweller who appeared with Norman Studer, the former camp director of Camp Woodland, Malvina Reynolds, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Sonia Malkin, Theodore Bikel with Palestinian poet Rashid Hussein, British folk musician Donovan, Irish folk musician Sean Phillips, the Reverend Gary Davis, Patrick Sky, female singing group the Pennywhistlers, bluegrass group the Greenbriar Boys, Judy Collins, Kentucky banjo player and high lonesome singer Roscoe Holcomb, Scottish singer Jean Redpath, Canadian and Indigenous songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie, as well as June Carter and Johnny Cash.
Adam C. MorrisHOST
If you're wondering about the title for the show, it comes from a line from Pete's song "Oh, Had I a Golden Thread," a tune about how all the variety in the world should give us strength and wisdom, which appeared on Seeger's 1960 Folkways album titled Rainbow Quest.
Adam C. MorrisHOST
[folk music][singing] Oh, had I a golden thread and needle so fine, I'd weave a magic strand of rainbow design, of rainbow design.
Glenn KaiserGUEST
They would play Joan Baez.
Glenn KaiserGUEST
They would play Buffy Sainte-Marie.
Glenn KaiserGUEST
They would play Phil Ochs, acoustic, protest song stuff.
Glenn KaiserGUEST
They would, they would throw Miles Davis in.
RossHOST
Mm.
TomHOST
It was a Buffy Sainte-Marie song, that is much more of them looking at each other and interacting and more of what we hope for from a duet.
RossHOST
Mm.
TomHOST
But I suppose we chose this one because it was so kinda awkward, and it's always fun to zero in on-
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