| . "[Book review of] 'It's My Way' by Buffy Sainte-Marie". Say Magazine, issue 71 = vol. 15, issue 1 (winter 2016). 2016. | 22 | 2016 | | |
| . "Buffy Sainte-Marie to Be Recognized as Outstanding Humanitarian at 2017 JUNO Awards". News from Indian Country, vol. 31, no. 2 (February 2017). 2017. | 17 | 2017 | Newspaper article; Buffy Sainte-Marie is the recipient of the 2017 Allan Waters Humanitarian Award. | |
| Adamson, Glenn. Craft: an American History. New York, New York: Bloomsbury Publishing. 2021. | 262 | 2021 | Includes bibliographical references and index. | |
| Barghoorn, Linda. Buffy Saint-Marie: Musician, Indigenous Icon, and Social Activist. New York, New York: Crabtree Publishing Company. 2018. | | 2018 | Juvenile literature. Includes glossary, bibliographical references (page 31), and index. | |
| Chacon, Raven. For Zitkála-Šá. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Art Metropole. 2022. | 107-113 | 2022 | Includes interview, Tsaile, Arizona, 1999, which was excerpted from an interview with Buffy Sainte-Marie by Brenda Norrell, Censored News. | Co-published by: Los Angeles, California: New Documents. Includes graphic scores created for the following Indigenous women artists: Laura Ortman, Cheryl L'Hirondelle, Suzanne Kite, Barbara Croall, Jacqueline Wilson, Autumn Chacon, Heidi Senungetuk, Ange Loft, Joy Harjo, Carmina Escobar, Olivia Shortt, Candice Hopkins, and Buffy Sainte-Marie. | |
| Edwards, Jason Morgan. "Cree Singer-Songwriter and Digital Artist Buffy Sainte-Marie". First American Art Magazine, issue no. 20 (fall 2018). 2018. | 68-73 | 2018 | Appears in the "Profile" column of the magazine issue. | |
| Kent, Jim (interviewer) and Buffy Sainte-Marie (interviewee). "Buffy Sainte-Marie, the Future Is in the Youth". Lakota Country Times, vol. 15, issue 4 (October 11-17, 2018). 2018. | A3 | 2018 | Newpaper article. | |
| Miller, J. R. Residential Schools and Reconciliation: Canada Confronts Its History. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: University of Toronto Press. 2017. | 220 | 2017 | Includes bibliographical references and index. | |
| Pedelty, Mark. A Song to Save the Salish Sea: Musical Performance as Environmental Activism. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. 2016. | 54, 59, 133, 139 | 2016 | Includes discography, bibliographical references (pages 267-276) and index. | |
| Righthand, Jess. "Up Where They Belong". SMITHSONIAN (October). 2010. | 30 | 2010 | | |
| Sainte-Marie, Buffy. "Moonshot". In: Nicholson, Hope (editor) and Andy Stanleigh (book designer). Moonshot: the Indigenous Comics Collection: Volume 1. Canada: Alternate History Comics. 2015. | unpaged | 2015 | Lyrics with a biographical sketch. | |
| Sainte-Marie, Buffy. Buffy Sainte-Marie. URL: http://buffysainte-marie.com/. 2017. | | 2017 | Buffy Sainte-Marie's website (viewed October 10, 2017) | View |
| Sainte-Marie, Buffy and Julie Flett (illustrator). Still This Love Goes On. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: Greystone Kids, Greystone Books. 2022. | | 2022 | Juvenile fiction. | |
| Sainte-Marie,Buffy (interviewee) and Say Magazine (interviewer). "Buffy Sainte-Marie: the Authorized Biography: a First-Hand Look at the Life of a Folk Hero and Living Legend". Say Magazine, issue 91 = vol. 17, issue 6 (2018 Back2School). 2018. | 12-14 | 2018 | Interview. | |
| Schilling, Vincent. "Native Music: Nine Artists Setting Indian Country on Fire". Indian Country, issue 3 (August-September 2017). 2017. | 84 | 2017 | In the 2017 Indian Country Hot Lists! Features Northern Cree, Shawnee Talbot, Tanya Tagaq and Buffy Sainte-Marie, Jade Turner, DJ Shub, Tony Duncan, Kristi Lane Sinclair, and Logan Staats. | |
| Schulman, Sandra Hale. Don't Tell Me How I Looked Falling: the Ballad of Peter La Farge. United States: Slink Productions. 2012. | book is not paginated | 2012 | Biography of folk musician Peter La Farge; includes substantive discussion of Buffy Sainte-Marie. | |
| Seiller, Monika. "Happy Birthday, Buffy Sainte-Marie! Zum 80. Geburtstag der Indigenen Powermusikerin". Coyote (Aktionsgruppe Indianer & Menschenrechte), nr. 125 ([Mai] 2021). 2021. | 61-64 | 2021 | | |
| Smith, Matthew Ryan. "[Review of journal issue] Public 54, Indigenous Art: New Media and the Digital. Heather Igloliorte, Julie Nagam, and Carla Taunton, eds. Public Access Collective, 2016". First American Art Magazine, issue no. 15 (summer 2017). 2017. | 82 | 2017 | Journal review appearing the "Reviews" column of the magazine issue. Native artists and writers cited include Buffy Sainte-Marie, Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, Âhasiw Maskêgon-Iskwê, Skawennati, Jordan Bennett, Amanda Strong, Scott Benesiinaabandan, Jason Edward Lewis, and Elizabeth LaPensée. | |
| Thollem. "[Music review of] Buffy Sainte-Marie, A Tribe Called Red, and Iskwé, Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, New York". First American Art Magazine, issue no. 17 (winter 2017/2018). 2017. | | 2017 | | |
| Vrečar, Monika. "Visual Art: Buffy Sainte-Marie". Border Crossings, vol. 41, no. 1 (2022) = issue 159 (2022). 2022. | 136-137 | 2022 | Review of "Buffy Sainte-Marie: Pathfinder, a retrospective exhibition by an innovator of digital art" which was exhibited at Urban Shaman and Aceartinc., Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, December 17, 2021-March 19, 2022. | |
| Warner, Andrea. Buffy Sainte-Marie: the Authorized Biography. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada ; Berkeley, California: Greystone Books. 2018. | | 2018 | Includes bibliographical references, discography, and index. | |
| Waters, Lee. "Up Where She Belongs: Buffy Sainte-Marie Wins the 2017 Allan Waters Humanitarian Award". First Nations Drum, January 2017. 2017. | 13 | 2017 | Appears in the "Awards" section of the newspaper issue; includes photographic portrait of Buffy Sainte-Marie. | |
| Wikipedia contributors. "Buffy Sainte-Marie". In: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia (host URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/) at source URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffy_Sainte-Marie. 2004 . | | 2004 | Current entry on Buffy Sainte-Marie in Wikipedia (viewed August 7, 2018) | View |
| Wilkinson, Wendy. "Artist Activist: after Decades of Mainstream Popularity, Award-Winning Singer-Songwriter and Indigenous Advocate Buffy Sainte-Marie Is Still Crushing It". Cowboys & Indians, vol. 28, no. 1 (January 2020). 2019. | 134-137 | 2019 | | |
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