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As a Black woman, I found out I was part Native after my DNA test results came back. All Buffy has to do is check her blood and publish the results.
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She was born in the USA to Caucasian parents. She lied about being adopted. She lied about not knowing where her birth certificate was or where she was born. She lied about being born an indigenous person. She is a fraud and the saddest part is it was entirely unnecessary. She is talented. She could have spoken out for indigenous rights no matter her heritage. The FACT that she chose to portray herself as something she wasn't and took accolades and opportunities away from ACTUAL indigenous people is utterly reprehensible and just gross.
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To the people who are defending her, please stop. There is no excuse for her lying. Good grief, in a world where you can't dress up for Halloween as someone from another culture, how can you defend someone stealing it permanently? She deserves to be called out for her lies and she needs to apologise. Wrong is wrong, there are no shades of grey here.
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I also want to say: I think it's very thoughtful of indigenous folks to consider grace for Buffy in light of her good works and also to think meaningfully about sovereignty and who gets to decide who is indigenous. But fakirs like Beverly Santa Maria, who not only lied to gain acceptance but threatened her own biological family with heinous allegations for exposing her, will be weaponized against indigenous communities and contribute to things like Scoop denialism. The truth matters and eroding the truth at its edges eventually leads to decay of the core.
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The dishonesty and lies could have been avoided, and she could still have been a great spokesperson for indigenous people, just by connecting and being adopted as an adult. So many people are broken hearted by this betrayal, so she has harmed many besides the people that lost opportunity. She made some really bad choices.
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Who is this guy? Wow!! Such a thoughtful, compassionate, balanced analysis of what must be a deeply painful topic across indigenous communities. I've learned a lot from this. Thank you!
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Thank you so much for your excellent video. As a 63 year old indigenous woman, I grew up loving and idolizing Buffy. I cannot lie when I say the truth, as we know it, being ripped out of our heart hurts. I feel shock, hurt, confused, angry, and sad all at the same time. I also feel very sad and sorry for her. I won’t try to pretend to understand why she did what she did. I’m not making excuses for her. But I will always be deeply grateful for all the good she has done for indigenous people for many, many years. Buffy was on the front lines when it was very dangerous to be native in North America. She used her celebrity for justice and bringing many truths to the public, all the while hiding behind a lie. She took a lot of risks when we didn’t, or couldn’t. I know this is hard for most of the world to understand how this is dividing Indian country. Still, I will always love Buffy, I forgive, even though I cry. Only Creator can judge you.
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I'm anishinaabekwe, removed from culture and urbanized. Grew up in Ontario with my white mom, as my dad was pretty violent so she had to leave.
Reconnecting with who I am and where I come from, culturally and spiritually, has been a real struggle. I feel so much like an imposter or like I shouldn't belong, even though I know I do.
I went for my naming ceremony last year. I know where I come from, but I don't know where I belong
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This is the best, most nuanced and compassionate response I have seen. Thank you very much.
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Love the analytical and dispassionate, yet empathic take on the matter. Kiitos!
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If only BSM had picked a story and stuck with it, we might not be having this conversation. To be described as Algonquin in one article, Micmac (with a Micmac name) in another article and then Cree, by the end of the same year, is going to raise some questions. For her to say now that she doesn't know who she is after spinning tales of being part of the "big scoop" (her words), having a mother who was killed in a car accident, a mother who couldn't take care of her, born in Maine, born in Saskatchewan. The explanation I come up with is that she could never have foreseen the day when newspaper archives would be digitized and available to anyone (with a subscription) who has a phone or computer.
Correction, Anton - Buffy's sister did a dna test with Ancestry, not sure about 23andme. It's been said in comments on other videos that BSM's son has also done a test. I can't speak to that but I have seen a comment on sister's FB profile where she's talking about her dna test and telling Cody to do one, also saying Buffy never will (this was several years ago - way before any of this came out).
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The problem is that she threatened her own family with lawsuits if they exposed her true identity. She’s a scumbag for doing that.
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You are so articulate and laid this out so well. Thank you! I am white Canadian male and Buffy's appearance on Sesame Street when I was a child - I lived in a small northern Alberta town at the time, shaped my consciousness around indigenous issues. That is a positive thing. She raising mainstream awareness in the role we play in indigenous genocide. While I respect her adoption into the Piapot Cree nation. That was post birth. I am devastated that the first person on Sesame Street was lying about her biological roots. I feel for her biological family as she threatened them with legal action. I feel for everyone hurt by this. I never saw this coming. I feel she needs to stop saying her mother slept on the other side of the blanket, a new narrative to get her out of this situation, and take a DNA test. Ironic how she is now connected to Saskatchewan. Where Joni Michel was born. A real Canadian folksingers.
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My great great grandmother was Iroquois from upstate New York . This made my grandmother 1/4 native . Which makes me 1/16 . I would never consider myself Native American . I was raised around my great grandmother who was half. I have great respect for this part of my family . I look at it as part of my DNA mix that makes me and my family who we are today .
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I was miss labeled on my adoption papers I was called Métis. My adoptive father is a RedRiver Métis so I was raised as one. I’ve found my biological mother and I do not have ties to RedRiver so I do not feel comfortable calling myself Métis. My biological mother just got her status through our tribe my grandmother lost her status when she married my grandpa a white man. It took my biological mother and her sibling decades to get their recognition. Buffy should be no different she need to prove it.
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So calm, so deliberate, delivered with warmth and understanding and respect, but also with heartfelt honesty.
This is probably the best video I've seen of a highly polarized and controversial subject -- not just on this particular subject of Buffy, but on any subject.
So much can be learned from this video. Thanks Anton.
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I can't say why, but i was always sus about her. Maybe it was the pearly Hollywood smile? Maybe it was the emphatic "I am Native" attitude, hidden within the "i'm going to teach the (Sesame Street) children," I can't put my finger on it...
I have met her personally and have friends in my community who have known her for decades. The reaction to this revelation about her is, "she's a nice person."
I think we have a different definition of "nice."
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Buffy appropriated the Cree identity to her benefit and hers alone. She may have done good, but to keep up with the persona of being Cree, she had to play the part and was the only one who benefitted the most from that good. She is no different than a settler who appropriates land and resources for their benefit despite who the land and resources originally belonged to. As a Canadian non-indigenous woman, her story floored me on so many levels. All the Canadian awards, along with the Order of Canada should be returned. She did not honestly earn them. Her silence and not clearing the air speaks volumes.
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The saddest thing about the Buffy situation is the division among indigenous peoples about the pretendian situation.
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@paddy1952
5 months ago
As a non-indigenous ally, I can understand why Buffy wanted to be Cree. Their culture makes more sense to me than my own. But for all the good she did, and she did do some good, she also hurt people. My own opinion is that she did it all for fame and money. She used the Piapot Cree to build her "legend". At 83 she's living in Hawaii, not Piapot. That says a great deal.
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