"I've got my own name and it's my way." Celebrating the music of Buffy Sainte-Marie on National Indigenous Peoples Day. | CBC Music

Few musicians have combined art and activism as effectively and profoundly as Buffy Sainte-Marie. Sainte-Marie explored a variety of musical forms through the ’60s, from folk to rock to electronic experimentation on her 1969 album 'Illuminations'. Her early adoption of synthesizers was evidence of Saint-Marie’s forward-thinking attitude towards technology. To that end she used Macintosh computers to record music and make visual art as early as 1981, and her 1992 album 'Coincidence and Likely Sto