On the previous Oldies Music Bulletin Board, I felt free to say things that were controversial, and didn't hesitate to get into vigorous debates with others. But when I became admin of this board, I felt it was best to generally avoid being overly controversial ... we don't have nearly as many contributors to this board as we did before, and I wanted to avoid doing anything that would lose people.

And so I've held back on posting about the very controversial Canadian Broadcasting Corporation investigation into Buffy Sainte-Marie's ethnicity, which is available at https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/buffy-sainte-marie or at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMsqCWNCUc4&t=9s -- depending on whether you would prefer to read about it or watch it (I've done both).

I have my own opinions about all of this. However, rather than offer them here, I have wanted to find an Indigenous perspective that I felt would properly address this very complicated situation, and I saw one today that resonated with me (although unfortunately it has a few typos that misspell her surname as "Saint-Marie" rather than "Sainte-Marie"). You can read it at https://www.thestar.com/opinion/i-loved-buffy-saint-marie-now-like-many-indigenous-people-i-feel-betrayed-by-her/article_db162a35-f1fd-53f4-b094-e031f5d40b29.html.