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Buffy Sainte-Marie's Authorized Biography Serves As A 'Map Of Hope'

The award-winning native Canadian singer-songwriter and social activist looks back on a life of music, milestones and empowerment.
Buffy Sainte-Marie performs during Hardly Strictly Bluegrass at Golden Gate Park in Oct. 2016 in San Francisco.

, native Canadian singer-songwriter, social activist and member of the Cree First Nation, is now in her 70s and has co-authored the first and only authorized biography that tells her story — a story of a woman whose career has stretched from the coffeehouses of Toronto and Greenwich Village in the early 1960s to concert halls around the world.is co-authored with Andrea Warner.

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