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In reply to the discussion: I loved Buffy Sainte-Marie. Now, like many Indigenous people, I feel betrayed by her [View all]obamanut2012
(27,450 posts)I am curious if Buffy's background is anything like that? Twain is considered Temagami by the Temagami.
"Twain was born Eilleen Regina Edwards in Windsor, Ontario, on August 28, 1965,[24] to Sharon (née Morrison) and Clarence Edwards. She has two sisters, Jill and Carrie Ann. Her parents divorced when she was two and her mother moved to Timmins, Ontario, with her daughters. Sharon married Jerry Twain, an Ojibwa from the nearby Mattagami First Nation, and they had a son, Mark, together. Jerry adopted the girls and legally changed their surname to Twain. When Mark was a toddler, Jerry and Sharon adopted Jerry's baby nephew Darryl when his mother died. Because of Twain's connection to Jerry, the media have incorrectly reported that she is of Ojibwe descent. When questioned as to why she chose not to publicly acknowledge Edwards as her father for years she stated:
My father [Jerry Twain] went out of his way to raise three daughters that weren't even his. For me to acknowledge another man as my father, a man who was never there for me as a father, who wasn't the one who struggled every day to put food on our table, would have hurt him terribly. We were a family. Step-father, step-brothers, we never used that vocabulary in our home. To have referred to him as my step-father would have been the worst slap across the face to him.[26]
She currently holds a status card and is on the official band membership list of the Temagami First Nation."