Utoo Radio with Other News Sources - March 7 2025 - Buffy Sainte-Marie has been stripped of her Canadian music awards, the Juno Awards and the Polaris Music Prize, following her return to Canada. 

The Canadian Music Hall of Fame has also removed her name from its' list of inductees. 

The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS) announced the decision in accordance with its eligibility requirements, following Sainte-Marie's statements about not being Canadian.

The Juno Awards had collected seven career Juno Awards, while the Polaris Music Prize had won the 2015 prize for Power In The Blood and a Polaris Heritage Prize designation in 2020.

Polaris will not be taking action to reclaim the reward money.

Sainte-Marie's profile was scrubbed out of an exhibit at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg in December, and Rideau Hall terminated her Order of Canada earlier this year.

This comes after an October 2023 investigation by the CBC's Fifth Estate that questioned Sainte-Marie's claims to Indigenous ancestry, revealing a birth certificate indicating she was born in 1941 in Massachusetts.

After returning the Order of Canada, Sainte-Marie stated she is an American citizen and holds a U.S. passport, but was adopted as a young adult by a Cree family in Saskatchewan.

She has claimed the investigation constructed a "false narrative" about her life.