Buffy Sainte-Marie - "My Country 'Tis of Thy People You're Dying" (Remastered)

Buffy Sainte-Marie performs "My Country 'Tis of Thy People You're Dying" on Pete Seeger's Rainbow Quest.
Remastered from best available source.

[@kqs3865]

This song will forever remind me that staying silent about historical atrocities is a crime in itself. Only by spreading the stories of oppressed peoples can we hope to do better in the future.

[@irenezafar966]

right on, sister

[@mbsraynnjek4143]

2023 💔♥️✊

[@schmassbinder]

Like how they're chemically castrating children and cutting off their breasts and the government supports it.

[@ronnie_5150]

And how do you feel now that she has been exposed as a complete fraud? Not only is she not indigenous, she's not even Canadian.

[@rah2287]

That didn't age well now did it? Another Native American Indian poser.

[@lancethrustworthy]

It woke me up when I was 16. I'm 65 now and it still entreats me to be aware and make better decisions.

[@zibagaming]

my man

[@cunobelinusX31]

I'm 65, and yes, this song, this music, Dylan, Woodie Guthrie, etc, taught me more than anything I learnt in school. I was a "good student" able to recite all there bollox, until I went to university and I could have a voice of my own.

[@Changenow-ze2sl]

gay

[@frederickponzlov3740]

The Song changed my life

[@dawnsilver2271]

me too

[@angelicaluce3230]

This was the early 60's - People either sat in ASTONISHED SILENCE or thought - "She's CUTE for a Folk Singer" . I met her, in the BOHEMIAN EMBASSY in Toronto. She performed for a weekend - she was the "opener" for BILL COSBY. Funny huh - they were totally opposite ends of the spectrum. Sometimes, as she sang, TEARS WOULD STREAM down her face. My God - I just adored her - she reduced me to astonished silence. God Bless You Buffy!

[@cherylsibson8457]

Wow thanks, I did not know that. I dont' even know what brought me to her, and of course, she's correct, God Bless her.

[@davidspears4550]

I was spinning records on the Fourth of July,I played; My country tis of thy people your dying! Some people got upset.Fuck those people!

[@blanchekonieczka9935]

The first time I heard this song I was 13 and it shook me up. I began reading everything I could, starting with Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. I wish I had seen her perform but I would have needed plenty of tissues!

[@ralphlamberson1549]

I saw her in the early 70s at a 3 day powwow. She doesn't need any accompaniments. I live 100 miles from that reservation the blankets were given to. I have 2 Northern Cheyenne grandchildren. I TEACH them who we all are.

[@ralphlamberson1549]

I live within 100 miles of 2 Reservations in Montana(Blackfoot and Kootani Salish)and grew up by a Sioux reservation in North Dakota where my grandparents were homesteaders.

[@Xaxtarr_Neonraven]

This is a must listen for all Americans. Buffy Sainte-Marie ❤️

[@tuulihypen8393]

Buffy St. Marie is not just for all Americans. I'm from Scandinavia myself, and I've always been shaken by her voice. Her message is universal.

[@musicmaker1617]

No one should listen to this. This is a discription of the perfect Holocaust. It will only cause disturbancy. It is better to forget and go on like this never happened. And forget all the victims. The awfulness of this crime is so high, it will never pass. So just forget it.

[@ALovecraftianHorror]

@@musicmaker1617 people should be disturbed by these things, that’s a normal reaction to genocide. Acting like it didn’t happen makes it easier for it to happen again, and it’s not like they happened that long ago. The last residential school closed in 1996, there’s still people out there that need to be brought to justice.

[@cockycapricorn6342]

@@musicmaker1617 ….wtf is wrong with you

[@cockycapricorn6342]

@@suchabadkitty1293 i hope it’s sarcasm lol

[@jjj1951]

"Nations of leeches who conquered this land" Man, she pulls no punches.

[@mikeloper100]

They weren't called savages for no reason.

[@sharonrigs7999]

All this from a confused Italian American

[@krissalkond]

@@sharonrigs7999 What are you talking about?

[@sharonrigs7999]

​@@krissalkondHave you been living in a cave on Mars since October?

[@patricksivalingam4106]

To anyone still listening today, there are other Voices of the Earth who cry out for justice. Like Aziza Brahim of Western Sahara, Fatoumata Diawara from Mali: listen to and watch "Timbuktu" Look up the now late Sufi poet Shahbano Aliani's poem: "With his shoes still on" Oh there's more. Please make them heard whenever you can.

[@cunobelinusX31]

Read Black Elk.

[@TenMinuteRecordReviews]

Buffy absolutely nailing (in 1966) what was slowly revealed in the US and Canadian media over the next half century.

[@neccowaif9]

Every 4th of July I listen to this song, for decades now.

[@grimala]

I’m crying so hard right now. Thank you for speaking the truth when no one else would or was even brave enough to try only to be censored

[@sharonazar1]

The words of this song are so powerful, they still bring tears today. I heard them back in the 1960's and we are still not listening to the truth of how this country was founded.

[@iMerlin..]

I’m only 23 and the first time I saw this I was about 7 years old. It hit me even then and it was a moment of extreme growth for me. I can only imagine the pain of these people. Just absolutely moves me to a whole new level. I love you Buffy.

[@SammieSea]

I have never listened to a song that brought so much ache to my heart and brought tears to my eyes every single time I listen to it. No matter how many times. Her voice's ache travels.

[@thedesertwarrior7447]

I am an Apache woman, who to this very moment, lives this song in the depths of my DNA, and in the deepest recesses of my spirit. The pain runs deep in the hearts of the Indigenous peoples of this stolen, but still Sacred land.

[@nickcarroll5034]

this did not age well

[@abbynormal7036]

Hey stick around, she will claim to be Apache next week... what she really is a lying B that faked so many things she couldn't keep up with all the lies... The one where she threatened her brother with calling him a molester if he outed her was icing on the cake for me. BTW.. when Indian went to war with other Indians for land , what did they call it back then? If they were so very peaceful, why have different tribes? Why do some historian call their lifestyle one of the most bloody of all times? When the Aztecs rolled thousands of heads into sacrifice pits to burn to their gods, was the head happily given by the victims?

[@binoculord]

​@@nickcarroll5034Oh Dear!

[@terryulmer969]

The truth is always the truth!

[@musicmaker1617]

Thank you. Hope you know how important you are.. Nature demand justis.

[@thodystack]

This is so relevant today. We can't stay silent and not be complicit. Make your voice heard. Palestinians are people, not animals.

[@haraldtillmann2894]

i am not sure i would call these hamas men that killed children and women (and men, too) "human beings" - HUMANE beings they are MOST CERTAINLY NOTTTT !!

[@davidmark345]

Every July 4th I play this You Tube clip to remind me of the other USA creation story. Thanks Buffy Sainte Marie.

[@rubiselag5154]

It hurts and I cry and I hold my head high for having brave women like you speak what's on the heart.

[@jimcochrane4679]

I will teach my children and my children's children. They will never forget...

[@sailinin]

I sure taught it to Summer, Cam and Casey. Certainly leaves a lesson.

[@longbow4856]

🌹☦️🫡

[@markhodges5754]

Just beautiful...THE RAGE IS SO JUSTIFIED....

[@philipconboy3712]

Buggy has the greatest voice I’ve ever heard and her use of tremolo is insane

[@TaliPolk]

This was all the truth. You can truly hear her pain and emotions as she sings. full composure but the voice says it all.

[@technikwolle]

think of the 250 graves of indian childrens found in a catholic school in canada in 2021

[@JacquelineFox-xo6jn]

Her voice.. ❤❤ BuffySt Marie.

[@strutter9785]

Creator heal our people and our land from the trauma that we've endured and continue to endure...Aho

[@frankiebowie6174]

The song everyone from Bob Dylan and Donovan to John Lennon and Dolly Parton wish they’d written.

[@tonimactavish9937]

Certainly has come to light. What a beautiful person. She has remains a speaker of truths.

[@thodystack]

I will always love this woman. She made an Englishman aware of the genocide we tried to commit. If she lied about her past to further your cause, she shouldn't be crucified by you. SHE IS YOUR FRIEND.

[@tom-kz9pb]

The truth of things can be seen plainly in the eyes, the trembling but strong voice, the held back tears, much less in the poetically articulate, bitter words. All have an obligation to propagate that truth, to repudiate the mythology and the national leaders that want to bury that truth. Wrongs must be acknowledged before it is possible even to begin to atone wrongs so deep that they never could be fully atoned.

[@Teranova]

35 y/o Canadian here... I just watched the documentary on this remarkable woman, not knowing her background, and I am in tears watching this beautiful yet sad song, knowing her history and the past she's always fought for... It truly is shameful what's happened in this country... I can only hope that we find some semblance of peace and restitution. Thank you for being such a strong light to help guide and teach others.😔❤️

[@sunilmenon6344]

i wouldn't call it a documentary if everything in it is a lie. Now that you know she is a pure white italian-american who appropriated native culture, how do you feel about her

[@terryulmer969]

​@@sunilmenon6344You obviously don't know how the clans work. Mitakuye Oyasin 💖

[@PRISMN54]

This song, her performance, this is astonishing, I tremble. Didnt know the song neither this lady. I'm from South America. Totally understood.

[@musicmaker1617]

Thank you, Buffy Sainte-Marie. I love you.

[@hammerhead222]

The Italian Billy Goat.

[@KristianBugge]

She's amazing! So powerful! ❤️

[@buckodonnghaile4309]

I'm dressing up as a samurai for halloweem

[@stephanlarsen8169]

Thanks. Buffy. And all persons who comment. No words I man can add. One comment stands out........ ... .. . . . Every American . This should be. Mandatory. Where have the buffalo gone my chillun?!?!!... . . .

[@irenezafar966]

sometimes i forget this song exists most of the time! never forget this song exists

[@arnoldblashak171]

OMG she is so real and natural and beautiful

[@arnoldblashak171]

Buffy St Marie I'll never forget you

[@arnoldblashak171]

People with that attitude will bring us to our salvation ⚡

[@IzzyCubito]

I praise all Native Americans, the true earth stolen, I cry and fear inside my soul! The conqueror created the warrior from a peaceful people...

[@jonathanbruce1440]

What could you possibly say after being in that studio hearing that version of that song? Words escape me.

[@cheeseweasel1689]

relevant af

[@musicmaker1617]

Love your music. You are so good. I rest my case. You are the best. Love you1

[@futurecitizen1434]

Bluffy de la St. Maria di Indigenousia Pasta, Italian queen

[@dmackler58]

I'm shocked to have found out today that Buffy Sainte-Marie isn't an indigenous person... She's white. very strange!! I still love her music, but.... ahhh........

[@KevinKenna-j6o]

extra tan on this video. She must own a tanning bed😃

[@simpleshoes]

She lives in Hawaii so she likely makes sure she gets lots of sun!

[@marcosmartinez6276]

Bad ass I love it!!

[@JacquelineFox-xo6jn]

Buffy St.Marie ❤❤❤❤

[@sabenada..8723]

Ela é um fenômeno...

[@HisAssholiness]

heartbreaking

[@JamesCalabrese930]

Others like the Piapot First Nation, the Cree tribe Sainte-Marie identified with for more than a half century, stand behind her. Does she deserve complete outrage? Or can we, as Cree author Michelle Good asks, “remember the power that was there regardless of her deception?”

[@gregrobinette8620]

Yeah thank you! If the nation she pretended to be a citizen of defends her, why tf are the foreigners crying so loud? I am appauled by these comments I'm seeing above yours, they just want social points, but unlike this woman, they are doing nothing but spreading negativity; & nothing changes! May god bless this woman. 🙏🏽🪶

[@tsev67911S]

And, isn't it amazing that she isn't even an indigenous person... she was born into a white, Italian family in Massachusetts. Who'd a thunk...

[@longbow4856]

The Universal SOLDIER 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🌹🇮🇪☘️☦️🫡

[@JacquelineFox-xo6jn]

My ❤. Is With. 🦊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🎼✔️🎵

[@JacquelineFox-xo6jn]

And America is banning books. It's every one's history. Eva St Marie. Soldier history. Never forget. Me and Oogisface. My pony Champion. ❤. See ya.

[@hezebelbeing]

This performance, and her going on TV at this time, saying these things...tirelessly and all the work she's done...I dunno. I remember moving from Canada to L.A. and feeling like I'd found my people (actors) I had family, but never felt I truly belonged.. but maybe she truly DID find her SOUL and belonging in the Piapot Cree Nation all those years ago. It's the costuming and stories that were lies, that hurt...but THIS, her heart and fight and talent and beauty still happened and they will live on forever.

[@jenniferhill6571]

♡

[@ozzie444]

How things have changed. You have broken many hearts.

[@musicmaker1617]

I know that for the jewish community Holocaust is a personally thing. Not for sale or for share. I respect that view. I am only comparing. For people who experienced Holocaust, directly or indirectly(by being a victim or a close relative to a victim), it was an experience of a sivilatory collapse, viewed from the inside of the event. Suddenly a politician in your home-country was a lethal weapon against you and your people. And a train was no longer a mean of transportation - but a death-trap. And no longer could you trust sivilatory ideals. Holocaust is a horrible event in history, that I would never try to water out by giving it a general definition. But still I find the Indians of North Americas destiny so equal to Holocaust. Now the world need to find back to respect of nature, due to the climate crisis. I think that the next deccades will be siding with North America Indians and all other aborigines. Love to Buffy Sainte-Marie!

[@theunrealtimemm]

It was not the only Holocaust. No-one owns a holocaust other than those who perpetrated it.

[@terryulmer969]

Hitler learned from Christianity how they treated the First Nations around the world and took it to a whole new level on the Jews.

[@hollonbischel5786]

Incredible

[@Americana-ec]

She’s singing a text book

[@Sextianeight]

Regardless of the truth of her indigenous roots, you can’t deny that she was a brave and powerful voice for people that didn’t have one to begin with. And I doubt that without Buffy there would have been one

[@gregrobinette8620]

Amen, god bless her!

[@maxmeggeneder8935]

Best song ever! Free Gaza! Free Palestine!

[@terrydanks]

A powerful song I've revisited since the recent revelations about Buffy's non-indigenous ancestry. I think I can forgive her.

[@baronsaturday9560]

I love you Buffy eventhough all this stuff going on right now..! You made some stuning music and art...

[@thodystack]

When you se her honesty here , You need to be very angry to not see ,that she is on your sid e

[@barrybogart5436]

I don't care if she is Native or Martian! She talks the talk like no one else. We should all be proud of her.

[@todramsey729]

I hope she plays this sept 10 2022

[@williamshafer3199]

Merca or Straya?

[@carmenbrown3437]

Where's my ear plugs?

[@theunrealtimemm]

The story in her native Canada is not much better. :(

[@covie6532]

Never forget the FBI banning her music over her messages

[@maximal-living8192]

Justice for Jacob Michael James

[@cathymorrison4953]

🧡🇨🇦🧡

[@mephistophelescountcaglios1489]

The more things change the more they stay the same

[@mikeloper100]

Charlitan.

[@valross4886]

Painful on every level.

[@davidspears4550]

Imagine Ben Shapiro's response to this song.

[@terryulmer969]

He would agree that it's the truth.

[@vivianeprudentiabuelens9142]

YEAH JUSTICE IS A VERY SICK GAME PLAYED BY VERY SICK PEOPLE ! I FEEL FOR THOSE VICTIMS REALLY !!! 4:58

[@musicmaker1617]

Holocaust

[@stephanlarsen8169]

I Man t cry

[@mariedalliston9938]

There is something very wrong with the human being . We don’t belong to this beautiful planet .

[@redj1101]

No, there’s something wrong with the settler mindset that doesn’t respect the earth

[@ptathholroyd4128]

beutiful planet? whats in this its in us,,, the planet is just cycles of Opposing and Complementing Energies which in humans causes things like (violent) Colinization and Cruelty and Death and Happiness and Care and etc,,, in the Earth it creates volcanos, Earthquakesm Thunderous Rains, Devouring Beasts as well as Rainbows and Morning Breezes and Singing birds and all

[@nathanboyer7739]

This still happens but now it be their own people... she's a pretendian now, apparently. Ugh. Ever sick.

[@angelicaluce3230]

We had NO IDEA how bad things would get! Everyone wearing MASKS! DO or DIE! FIGHT for your FREEDOM. FIGHT FOR YOUR LIFE! GOD BLESS US ONE AND ALL

[@pioneerpassenger]

Something tells me you missed the point

[@carolynbrightfield8911]

​@pioneerpassenger yes, best to live in the past, rather than think about the present. Personally I want reparations for when the Romans invaded the angles, then we can talk about when the angles invaded the cells and shipped them out in chains. Reparations please. I can't trace my family back past my grandfathers, neither have birth certificates but DNA says I'm 100% Irish.

[@TravisBic41162]

She's a fake.

[@dooderino57]

I know, truly heartbreaking

[@jamesreid5809]

I like this song, but in truth is there really anything to mourn? Just hunting the buffalo, forever and ever, for an enternity. Is there really anything to miss? Was it a better way of life? I have a hard time believing it. Yes, it was probably better than whatever we have now- we enslave enitre species now (chicken and cow) for our pleasure (certianly not our nourishment) . But were the old days better? I feel like it would be better if humans had never existed in the first place. Can the top of the food chain ever be justified, considering what it imposes on the bottom of the food chain (and lets be honest, the natives were simply at a lower rung of the food chain- nothing more, nothing less). I think none of it can be justified. It would be best if we vonuntarily walked into the sunset. It would end all the suffering, forever

[@ReadyAimSing]

I'm leaving this up only so that a record of the idiocy you just evacuated keeps you up at night, ten years from now, when you lock yourself out of your youtube account.

[@Galethewizard892]

Please for the love of God, educate yourself.

[@nickcarroll5034]

@@ReadyAimSing You have a true Native woman in Buffy here!

[@zxyatiywariii8]

I just want to say -- please remember, although we humans can be the WORST, most hateful species, we can also be the best and most compassionate. I could tell countless stories of both, so I'll share one I recently saw -- a young man risking his own life to rescue a terrified dog frozen in fear on a busy freeway. I'm Indigenous Polynesian but many of my friends are Indigenous Lakota, and it is traditional to kill ONLY animals they need for food, as quickly and as humanely as possible, and NONE of the animals are wasted. There are many deer where we live. Many would slowly starve to death every winter, if no one hunted them, even if wolves were brought back into the environment. Have you ever been starving? I was, when I was a child and a teenager, and if I were a deer, I would rather be killed quickly by a Lakota who would use my body for his children's nourishment, and honor and thank my spirit. Humans who love our earth, who respect ALL the animals with whom we share it, can be wonderful. ❤

[@jim6690]

Wow. She was really bad. She sings of "thy people" dying, but she denies that they they are, in fact, "thy people".

[@JohnR22926]

In the sixties pretty much anybody could get up on the stage. Sheeeesh!

[@no_wire_hangers]

What’s wrong with her?

[@Blackseaink]

What a dumb comment.

[@heathkish6901]

@@no_wire_hangers He was clearly just trolling, just ignore him. Lol

[@blanchekonieczka9935]

I listened to this when I was a teenager. I'm in my 60s now and no other song has touched my soul or raised my ire as this one has.

[@stephanlarsen8169]

Thanks for sharing. Yes love Truth. praises to the great creator Jah rastafari.

[@cunobelinusX31]

I'm a 65 year old Englishman, living in Ireland, for the last 42 years, I also heard this song in my teens, along with Dylan etc. My life has been quite successful, but one filled with anger. Music made me aware, not school, or college. Just music and reading. No one bothers about how France and England let Italy use Mustard gas in Ethiopia, let Germany bomb the Spanish to support Franco, then kill millions of jews. But no=one talks about the biggest holocaust ever, the extermination of Native Americans? The last great stone age, horse culture. And yet if you read the likes of Black Elk, you can see that these people were, simple, not war like. They had arguments with local tribes, but it was never on a level like we bought to them

[@blanchekonieczka9935]

@@cunobelinusX31 I'm an American and never learned any of this in school. This song opened my eyes when I was 13 and I proceeded to read and investigate my own country's dark history. The line in this song "the genocide basic to this country's birth" shocked me. I had learned about the Nazis when I was 9 and read the Diary of Anne Frank. That was when I discovered man's inhumanity to man and it shook my little world. Then to find out my own country's history contained a genocide more horrific than Hitler's "final solution" exploded my world and that was when I began to distrust everything about my government and our school system. Now decades later I'm wiser (because I read and pay attention) but saddened by how humans treat their fellow human beings. I admire your statement that music and reading made you aware because that is my experience also.

[@Ttown310]

What a crock… 🤡

[@infernowolf1850]

You can hear her pain, she is truly is a hero for speaking up about this

[@richardwieder2354]

I saw her perform in 1970 and I was never the same!!!

[@barbarafeliciano5703]

Wow, she just slapped me with words. #neverforget

[@tonypress4903]

My heart is shaking with this one.

[@margaretmaher8146]

Buffy St. Marie is a truth-teller. Just searing, Standing Rock....

[@binoculord]

Buffy St Marie

[@alexbeattie6868]

There's not enough thumbs up for me to give this

[@MtFrederick47]

When I first hear her sing in the 70s I was changed forever. Art is Power.

[@karasays01]

You cant listen to this and take pride in America without the sense of the indigenous peoples peril. All at the hands of the European settlers who are praised. bur what for?

[@CrowdPleeza]

I think the truth should be taught about the Americas. This would include how Europeans did bad things to Native Americans to get the whole western hemisphere. It would also include the not so good things that happened between Indian tribes. Indian tribes got rough with each other also. The Aztecs sacrificed their enemies,the Comanche and Apache had heavy wars. The Iroquois came down hard on the Erie tribe etc. So America's true history would include all of these things.

[@ordyhorizonrivieredunord712]

bless your soul your still alive and i still love you......buffet st marir

[@stadleroux]

This song led me, in some way, to read the book 'Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee,' by Dee Brown, back in the '80s.

[@frederickponzlov3740]

Likewise the song and the book changed my life and lead me to Wounded Knee several years later

[@joeherald7319]

This is so intense it makes me gasp every time I listen to it. What lies we were all taught.

[@k_DAN]

You do realize she is the biggest lie of all right ?

[@joeherald7319]

I did see that in Oct '23 there was a big background search reveal about her heritage and upbringing. This may dispute her claims about being indigenous. I still think this song is profound. @@k_DAN

[@sawyerstudio]

It's really phenomenal to me as somebody who has appreciated Buffy's art for many many years to see so many people dismiss them outright, as if they weren't a truly singular singer songwriter and stunning musician. My opinion on Buffy as a human being is so rooted in the soulfulness of her art, I can't imagine being so easily corralled to despise a person. She's a survivor of childhood abuse and I'm happy she found and raised her voice and applied it in such a powerful way. She didn't 'take away' opportunities from indigenous people, this racist culture and society did that, she found fame on the merit of her music, and no amount of dilettantes and ghouls piling on her at the direction of the god damned CBC of all entities can ever take away from her that she devoted her life to shining light on cultures and histories "North America" at that time and even now utterly denies.

[@k_DAN]

@@sawyerstudio It truly amazes me that there are people like you that " out of your own selfishness " wants to still hold on to what you " want " to believe, because you don't want to give up it. She is an imposter. She has based her career on a fraud. The CBC made her in Canada. They promoted her all through her life. Now, you want to trash the CBC because they have exposed the truth. Do you know how embarassing that was for them and how hurtful it was to them knowing they supported maybe one of the biggest phonies in entertainment history. What Buffy has done is beyond disgust. But luckily she was exposed while she was still here and now knows that her legacy is now dust.

[@gregrobinette8620]

​@@k_DAN shut up, its not selfishness, your just a negative guy.

[@peterappleton5213]

Play it to the world everyday someone will listen eventually, I hope

[@MiloSatori]

Mexican here, predominately Native American. I agree.

[@cmondude..]

mexican here, predominately spaniard: bleh 😝