Buffy Sainte-Marie

Buffy Sainte-Marie is celebrated as much for her diligent activism on behalf of Native Americans as for her soul-piercing folk music, which, in her 1960s heyday, endeared her to mainstream audiences as well as a more radical crowd. Her 1964 debut album--lush with impassioned political lyrics, exotic imagery, and her confident alto vocals--launched her into the public eye as a world-class protest singer-songwriter. In 1982 she co-wrote the Oscar-winning song "Up Where We Belong," and released two albums in the '90s that served more as a reminder of her presence than as a full-fledged comeback. Her songs have been performed by the likes of Donovan, Elvis Presley, and Barbara Streisand, to name just a few.

• Bob Dylan
• Chad Mitchell
• Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
• Donovan (Rock)
• Eric Andersen
• Gordon Lightfoot
• Janis Ian
• Joan Baez
• Joni Mitchell
• Judee Sill
• Mimi Farina
• Neil Young
• Phil Ochs
• Vashti Bunyan

• Cisco Houston
• Janis Joplin
• Koerner, Ray & Glover
• Malvina Reynolds
• New Lost City Ramblers
• Odetta
• Paul Robeson
• Pete Seeger
• Ramblin' Jack Elliott
• The Weavers
• Woody Guthrie/Leadbelly

• Ani DiFranco
• Black Lodge Singers
• Brightblack Morning Light
• Ember Swift
• Holly Near
• Indigo Girls
• Joanne Shenandoah
• Mary Youngblood
• Michelle Shocked
• Robert Mirabal
• Toshi Reagon
• Tracy Chapman

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