"A DIGITAL PIONEER in her own right, this celebrated singer, songwriter, and educator serves as our guide to the new frontier of Indian country" -- YAHOO! Internet Life

View and sign the GUEST BOOK

	NEW MOUTHBOW STORE! Buy T-shirts and mugs that express your love of this wonderful instrument. Proceeds will help support this site, and additional proceeds will go to The Cradleboard Teaching Project. Check it out!
	Thomas Krill reviews Buffy's May 7, 2005 concert in South Burlington, Vermont. He also shares some great photos!
	NEW ARTICLE "Early Morning Rain" by Canadian Folksinger Beverlie Robertson. Exciting events relating to Folk Music, Coffee Houses, 1960's, Gordon Lightfoot, and Buffy.
	November 10, 2002: Buffy performs at Kennedy Space Center, honoring Commander Jim Herrington, first American Indian Astronaut

Electronic Powwow Buffy fans who are interested in the new Electronic Powwow model of the Cradleboard Teaching Project should send a message to info@cradleboard.org You will receive a message describing the Electronic Powwow.

Buffy Email List.Come join the excitement and conversation, or just sit back and listen... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/buffysaintemarie

PICTURES: Sent by Buffy, from her collection

Take a look at the "Buffy Sainte-Marie" Rose

Did You Know?	Recent Awards	Recent Works and Projects
In November 2002 Buffy sang at NASA's Kennedy Space Center celebrating the launch of the first Native American astronaut. The songs:Starwalker, Up Where We Belong, Eagle Man and her own version of America the Beautiful. Buffy is a pioneer in electronic music and digital art. She recorded the first-ever electronic vocal album, recorded in quadraphonic surrond-sound! ("Illuminations," released 1969). Buffy was one of the first to have a personal web page on the internet. Her two most recent CDs, "Coincidence and Likely Stories" (1992) and "Up Where We Belong" (1996) were mostly recorded in her home using her Macintosh computer. She is an artist, and a master of digital art. Her computer-generated images hang in galleries and museums, and she has her on-line gallery at her web page. Also a pioneer in education, she founded the Cradleboard Teaching Project, an on-line Native American curriculum that connects children in the reservation schools and the main-stream public schools. Buffy created the basic Cradleboard curriculum, and designed and created the CD-ROM, "Science: Through Native American Eyes" on her Macintosh. She earned a Ph.D. in Fine Arts from the University of Massachusetts.	Buffy was presented with her second medal from Queen Elizabeth II (the first was in 1982)--Saskatchewan, October 2002 Recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Indian College Fund -- 2001 Named an Officer in the Order of Canada -- the highest civilian honor that country can bestow -- 1998 Louis T. Delgado Award for Native American Philanthropist of the Year -- 1998 Buffy received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the 1998 National Aboriginal Achievement Awards. Won a Juno Award for her "Up Where We Belong" CD. Won a Gemini Award for her "Up Where We Belong" video. Inducted into the Canadian Music Hall Of Fame -- 1995 Won an Academy Award for the song "Up Where We Belong" from the film "Officer and a Gentleman."	In 2000-2001 Buffy was a commissioner on the National Commission on Service Learning which was co-chaired by Dr. William Richardson and former Senator and astronaut John Glenn. During the late 1990s Buffy served on Hilary Rodham Clinton's committee to Save America's Treasures which include Mesa Verde cliff dwellings and Cahokia Mounds. CD-ROM: Science: Through Native American Eyes (1999) Video: Up Where We Belong (1996) CD: Up Where We Belong (1996) CD: Coincidence And Likely Stories (1992)