The Oscar winner is also set to lose two Polaris music prizes after a 2023 CBC program claimed the Sainte-Marie had been fraudulently posing as Native.

It's My Way!, Sainte-Marie's first album, received the Slaight Family Polaris Heritage Prize designation in 2020, an honour given to Canadian albums released before the Polaris Music Prize launched in 2006. The most recent winners of the heritage prize include Jackie Mittoo and Tegan and Sara.

For the past year and a half, the indigenous Canadian identity of the veteran folksinger Buffy Sainte-Marie has been under serious question. Sainte-Marie claimed Native heritage and took activist stances for her entire career,

The Polaris Prize said that the singer-songwriter is not a Canadian citizen, while the organization that administers the Junos said she doesn't meet the eligibility requirements.

The Polaris Music Prize announced the rescission of Sainte-Marie's 2015 Polaris Music Prize (won for her album Power in the Blood) and 2020 Polaris Heritage Prize (won for 1964's It's My Way) on similar grounds.

Canada's two most prestigious musical honors, the Juno and Polaris Awards, have rescinded singer-songwriter Buffy Saint-Marie's past awards due to her recent acknowledgement that she is not a Canadian citizen,

Marie’s confirmation that she is not a Canadian citizen continues as two of the country’s most prestigious arts honors have been rescinded. According to the CBC today, the singer-songwriter’s Polaris Music Prizes and Juno Awards will be rescinded because she is not Canadian.