Running for the Drum is the fourteenth studio album by Buffy Sainte-Marie, released in 2008.

One of Sainte-Marie's more successful albums, it spawned one single with "No No Keshagesh".

Running for the Drum features the DVD documentary on Buffy Sainte-Marie, A Multimedia Life, which features exclusive interviews with artists such as Joni Mitchell and Taj Mahal and performances by Sainte-Marie.

Running for the Drum won the prestigious Juno Award for Aboriginal Album of the Year.

It features her friend, Taj Mahal on acoustic piano.