Acting
Buffy Sainte-Marie
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.
Filmography
Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On
Film · 2022
Stronger Together, Tous Ensemble
Film · 2020
Stringman: The Jack Nitzsche Story
Film · 2018
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
Film · 2017
The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code
Film · 2015
Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation
Film · 2013
On the Trail of Easy Rider: 40 Years On... Still Searching for America
Series · 2011
Saint Misbehavin': The Wavy Gravy Movie
Film · 2010
Buffy
Film · 2010
Buffy Sainte-Marie: A Multimedia Life
Film · 2006
Making a Noise: A Native American Musical Journey with Robbie Robertson
Film · 1999
Buffy Sainte-Marie: Up Where We Belong
Film · 1996
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Series · 1995
The Broken Chain
Film · 1993
Uranium
Film · 1990
Broken Rainbow
Film · 1985
Walkabout to Hollywood
Film · 1980
A Walking Tour of Sesame Street
Film · 1979
Austin City Limits
Series · 1975
Dinah!
Series · 1974
As Long as the Rivers Run
Film · 1971
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
Series · 1969
Then Came Bronson
Series · 1969
Festival
Film · 1967
The Creative Person: The Folksinger
Film · 1965
Top of the Pops
Series · 1964
The Merv Griffin Show
Series · 1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Series · 1962
The Virginian
Series · 1962
Kraft Music Hall
Series · 1958