Canadianborn American singersongwriter guitarist political activist and visual artist known especially for her use of music to promote awareness of issues affecting Native Americans Orphaned as an infant in Canada when her mother a Plains Cree died in an auto accident SainteMarie was adopted by an US couple of Mikmaq ancestry and raised in Massachusetts Maine Her earliest days as a selftaught folk singer were spent shaking up the coffeehouses and consciousnesses in Greenwich Village and helping Joni Mitchell get discovered Along with her lifelong commitment to and advocacy for Indigenous and Aboriginal people around the world she has changed the education system from within and maintained an unwavering passion for social justice equality and the Earth mixed with her love of sound and songs Her legacy is that of as an evercurious everevolving and technologically pioneering musician producer composer and artist despite her inability to read a note of music
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