“I have never lied about my identity.”
“This has been incredibly re-traumatizing for me and unfair to all involved,” she said.
“I do not blame them,” she added.

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“They, of course, want to believe their father.
I have never known if my birth certificate was real.”
Sainte-Marie maintained that she has “never lied about my identity.”
I am proud to have been able to travel the world, sharing Indigenous stories."