Then and Later: Founder and President of the Cradleboard Teaching Project and Academy Award Winning Songwriter

Buffy Sainte-Marie came to Salzburg as part of the faculty for the session on Youth and Civic Participation: Models for Engagement, where she gave a lecture about the Cradleboard Teaching Project, the project she founded to increase public awareness of Native American culture. In this session, she specifically showed Fellows how technology and the internet can be used to teach children to respect other cultures. Sainte-Marie has won recognition for her music, as well as her work in education and social activism. She is best known for her work on the television show Sesame Street, where she taught about Native American people and culture and in 1983, she became the first Indigenous person to win an Oscar.