Buffy Sainte-Marie at the Newport Folk Festival in the mid-1960s.
PHOTO BY DEWAIN BUGBEE
Buffy Sainte-Marie at the Newport Folk Festival in the mid-1960s.
PHOTO BY DEWAIN BUGBEE
These pictures, taken at the Chelsea Hotel, are from a proof sheet that has survived two hurricanes, and are the only photos that Buffy Sainte-Marie has of her with Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen.
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Buffy Sainte-Marie with Leonard Cohen.
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Buffy Sainte-Marie in vintage fringe.
PHOTO BY GUY WEBSTER
Buffy Sainte-Marie in her backyard in Hawai‘i.
PHOTO BY JIMMY FUJITA
Emile Piapot, Buffy Sainte-Marie, and Clara Starblanket Piapot.
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Buffy Sainte-Marie basking in the sun in the 1970s.
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Buffy Sainte-Marie in concert in Nashville.
PHOTO BY MARSHALL FALWELL
Buffy Sainte-Marie in Paris.
PHOTO BY VINCENT ROSSELL
Vintage press photo of Buffy Sainte-Marie.
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Buffy Sainte-Marie performing in the 1970s.
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Buffy Sainte-Marie with her mother, Winnie, holding a baby monkey in Australia, around 1975.
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Buffy Sainte-Marie giving baby Cody a bath in a bucket at the Piapot Reserve, around 1976.
PHOTO BY SHELDON WOLFCHILD
Buffy Sainte-Marie with her Piapot family at the reserve.
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Cody peeking out of a teepee around 1977.
PHOTO BY BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE
Cody in a bucket around 1977.
PHOTO BY BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE
Buffy Sainte-Marie getting ready for baby Cody’s luau. Sesame Street’s cast and crew also attended the celebratory luau, filmed on location at Sainte-Marie’s home in Hawai‘i around 1977 (the episodes aired in early 1978).
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Floyd Westerman, Buffy Sainte-Marie, and Dennis Banks in the 1970s.
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Buffy Sainte-Marie with Cody, age sixteen.
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Buffy Sainte-Marie holding her Oscar in 1983 after winning the Academy Award for Best Original Song for co-writing “Up Where We Belong,” the theme song from An Officer and a Gentleman.
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Buffy Sainte-Marie happily painting.
PHOTO BY DENISE GRANT
Buffy Sainte-Marie standing in front of her painting Elder Brothers.
PHOTO BY JESSE GREEN
Buffy Sainte-Marie performing in Ottawa at the National Arts Centre.
PHOTO BY BRIAN CAMPBELL
Buffy Sainte-Marie cuddling with a kangaroo.
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Buffy Sainte-Marie with her band: Jesse Green, Leroy Constant, and Michel Bruyere.
PHOTO BY CHRISTIE GOODWIN
Buffy Sainte-Marie supporting Idle No More.
PHOTO BY KEVIN NORTON
Buffy Sainte-Marie performing in Central Park for Summerfest.
PHOTO BY MICHAEL EDMUNDS
Buffy Sainte-Marie and the author at Catfe in Vancouver, 2018.
PHOTO BY ANDREA WARNER