Name: I Can't Sing Like Buffy Sainte-Marie
Duration: P00H01M41S
Description: This track takes a somewhat comedic tone on some of the feelings I have around being a displaced Native. It's about trying to reclaim culture without any real framework for doing so, and some of the contradictions we have to live by living in two worlds.

I Can't Sing Like Buffy Sainte-Marie

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This track takes a somewhat comedic tone on some of the feelings I have around being a displaced Native. It's about trying to reclaim culture without any real framework for doing so, and some of the contradictions we have to live by living in two worlds.

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I can't sing like Buffy, Buffy Sainte-Marie
But I know she would encourage me to just sing like me
I'm not well spoken like John Trudell
But I'd like to think my own words work pretty well

I've never drove down pow wow highway
I'm always doing things my way
Still trying to learn my ways that's why sometimes I say

I'm just a city living native and that's all I'll ever be
I don't belong on the rez I don't belong with whitey
Just a product of abusive boarding school assimilation
Kill the Indian save the child? (No!)
Kill the American save the Native

I can't rhyme like Drezus or Nataanii Means
So I play punk rock with my guitar strumming
Indigenous vegan, never heard of that before
but 1491 is still the year I'm wishing for

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from I Can't Sing Like Buffy Sainte-Marie, released October 26, 2020
All parts were written and recorded by Tenaya Heredia.

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