Human rights museum removes Buffy Sainte-Marie from exhibit – Winnipeg [Video]

The Canadian Museum for Human Rights has removed singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie from an exhibit because of questions about her First Nations identity.

The musician and activist was among more than a dozen people featured in an exhibit at the Winnipeg museum titled “human rights defenders” until December.

A museum official says the move was made following a CBC report that said Sainte-Marie has a birth certificate from Massachusetts and that family members in the U.S. indicated she doesn’t have Indigenous heritage.

Matthew Cutler, the museum’s vice-president of exhibitions says that after the report there were extensive consultations with Indigenous communities and advisers.

Sainte-Marie has said the report contained mistakes and omissions and that she has never lied about her identity.

Sainte-Marie’s Order of Canada appointment was terminated last month, and officials with the Juno Awards are reviewing the five music awards she has won over the years.

Cutler says the decision at the museum took time.

“We know that …