Sainte-Marie claimed in a 2008 interview at the National Museum of the American Indian that she had been blacklisted by American radio stations and that she, along with Native Americans and other native people in the Red Power movements, were put out of business in the 1970s.
Buffy Sainte-Marie hævdede i et interview i 2008 på National Museum of the American Indian, at hun havde været sortlistet fra amerikanske radiostationer, og at hun sammen med andre oprindelig folk, der var medlemmer af Red Power-bevægelser, bevidst var holdt ude af musikindustrien i 1970'erne.