Sheesh, ANOTHER white lady pretending to be Native American? How many is it now?

There's apparently no shortage of white ladies pretending to be Native Americans. We all know Elizabeth Warren, of course.

Then there's other celebrities:

And random professors:

And now, apparently folk singers!

Oscar-winning folk singer Buffy Sainte-Marie has long been viewed as a barrier-breaking, Indigenous icon — but a recent news investigation has raised doubts over her Indigenous roots.
A Canadian Broadcast Corporation feature on the singer-songwriter has led to accusations that Sainte-Marie is a "pretendian" — the term coined for people who fake having Indigenous ancestry.

It's so popular a gambit that they have a name for it!

To be sure, the lady DOES look like a Native American.

The singer "claimed that she was born on a Piapot Cree reservation in Canada and was adopted by white parents," but the recent CBC report "cites a birth certificate that states the singer was born ‘Beverly Jean Santamaria' in Stoneham, Massachusetts to parents of European lineage."

Hmm "Beverly Jean Santamaria" is not exactly a common name for a Native American.

Sainte-Marie has denied the claims, writing in a statement that she is "proud of my Indigenous-American identity," which she said he learned from family history and personal research.

"I may not know where I was born, but I know who I am," she declared.