Buffy St. Marie started her career as a folk musician back in the early 1960s and gradually became an indigenous icon who appeared on postage stamps.
Known for co-writing the Oscar-winning “Up Where We Belong,” writing the much-covered 1960s protest standard “Universal Soldier” and the years she appeared on “Sesame Street” — wearing traditional dress, she taught the Count to count in Cree, and in 1977 breastfed her baby on camera — Sainte-Marie has long been one of Canada’s most prominent Indigenous icons.
She’s been commemorated on Canadian postage stamps and performed for Queen Elizabeth II. “A one-name phenomenon, akin to Madonna, Cher, Elvis,” as a Globe and Mail column put it.
The postage stamp was released in 2021 by Canada Post.
Buffy Sainte-Marie is one of Canada’s most successful singer-songwriters. She’s made…
