More than a year after an investigation disputed the singer's claims of being Cree, she is losing the Canadian recognitions she has received.

Marie's confirmation that she is not a Canadian citizen continues as two prestigious arts honors have been rescinded.

Folk singer and social activist Buffy Sainte-Marie has been stripped of multiple major Canadian music awards after identity revelations suggest she is American.

Musician said she never claimed to be Canadian, following an investigation that called her purported Indigenous heritage into question

The Oscar winner is also set to lose two Polaris music prizes after a 2023 CBC program claimed the Sainte-Marie had been fraudulently posing as Native.

For the past year and a half, the indigenous Canadian identity of the veteran folksinger Buffy Sainte-Marie has been under serious question. Sainte-Marie claimed Native heritage and took activist stances for her entire career,

Marie, whose purported Indigenous lineage has been called into question, says she has returned her Order of Canada “with a good heart” and restated that she never claimed to be Canadian. In her first comment since she was stripped of the award in February,

It's My Way!, Sainte-Marie's first album, received the Slaight Family Polaris Heritage Prize designation in 2020, an honour given to Canadian albums released before the Polaris Music Prize launched in 2006. The most recent winners of the heritage prize include Jackie Mittoo and Tegan and Sara.