I liked her as an artist and could forgive the made up back story but for one thing. In the Wiki entry about her claim of indigenous identity it states that her brother, Alan, wrote some public letters to the press denying her claim. He received a letter from her solicitors telling him to stop. Direct quote from Wiki now -"Included with the law firm letter was a handwritten note from Buffy Sainte-Marie to her brother stating that she would expose him for allegedly sexually abusing her as a child if he continued speaking about her ancestry."

Had he abused her she should have taken the claim to the police but it seems to have been a spurious claim made just to prevent him from telling the truth. That is despicable at so many levels. Her subsequent, now disproven, stories about her being adopted prove her to be a liar of the highest order and I'm afraid that I cannot help but becoming less of a fan in these circumstances.