“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.

Buffy Sainte-Marie, recipient of the Jeff Skoll Award in Impact Media presented by Participant Media, poses backstage at the TIFF Tribute Awards Gala during the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival at The Fairmont Royal York Hotel on September 11, 2022 in Toronto, Ontario

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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."