1968 Chart of Gemstones
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Happy 76th birthday to music legend Buffy Sainte-Marie! Over the past fifty years, the Native Canadian musician and singer-songwriter has released over twenty albums. Her songs often focus on themes such as love, war, and religion, including the famous 1960s era protest song, Universal Soldier. Sainte-Marie has also been active for decades on issues related to promoting the empowerment of the Indigenous peoples of North America.
Born on the Piapot Plains Cree First Nation Reserve in Saskatchewan, Canada, Sainte-Marie was raised by adoptive parents in Massachusetts. She taught herself guitar as a teenager and, by the early 1960s, she had become active in Greenwich Village folk music scene in New York City. Sainte-Marie began to tour around North America, becoming especially well-known for her protest songs and social activism. In the 1970s, she gained an interest in experimental music and earned a PhD in Fine Art from the University of Massachusetts. Sainte-Marie has continued to compose and perform for decades and, in 2015, she released a highly acclaimed new album, “Power In The Blood,” after a seven year hiatus from recording.
To learn more about her recently released album “Power In The Blood,” visit http://amzn.to/1L0gJxV
For adult readers who would like to learn more about her story, we recommend the fascinating biography, “Buffy Sainte-Marie: It’s My Way” at http://amzn.to/1QPATr3
Buffy Sainte-Marie is also one of 40 incredible women featured in the inspiring new book “Rad Women Worldwide” for ages 10 and up at http://www.amightygirl.com/rad-women-worldwide
To introduce children and teens to more Native American and Aboriginal girls and women – both in real-life and fiction – we feature many girl-empowering books in our blog post, “A Celebration of Native American and Aboriginal Mighty Girls,” at http://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=10365
mino-dibishkaan Buffy Sainte-Marie :)
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