Buffy Sainte-Marie (also billed as Buffy Sainte-Marie Wolfchild) played Buffy on Sesame Street from 1975 to 1981. On her Web site, the Canadian First Nations artist says that she hoped her role on the show would teach children that "Indians still exist." The birth of her son Cody was chronicled on the show as well.

She won an Academy Award in 1982 for composing the song "Up Where We Belong" as recorded by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes for the film An Officer and a Gentleman.

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• Creative-Native.com - official site