How journalists tell Buffy Sainte-Marie’s story matters — explained by a ’60s Scoop survivor

Musician Buffy Sainte-Marie, pictured here in 1970, has long said she didn't know who her birth parents were but that she was Indigenous. Last week, a CBC investigation revealed both her parents were white. CMA-Creative Management Associates, Los Angeles , CC BY-NC

Lori Campbell, a ’60s Scoop survivor and a VP at the University of Regina, challenges the CBC’s motives in their exposé on the questionable Indigenous roots of Buffy Sainte-Marie, legendary singer-songwriter.