Sacheen littlefeather

Sacheen Littlefeather (1946- ), a Native American activist and actress, is best known for refusing an Academy Award on behalf of Marlon Brando in 1973. He had won Best Actor for playing Don Corleone in “The Godfather” (1972), his most famous role. Brando thought it better to go to the stand-off at Wounded Knee between AIM and the FBI than to go to the Oscars. She came up on stage dressed in her Northern Traditional powwow dance outfit, refused the Oscar and then said in part: “He very…

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Forty-two years before the #OscarsSoWhite debate, a lone woman of color stood up against Hollywood.

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Sacheen Littlefeather at the Oscars (1973)

In 1973, Indigenous activist Sacheen Littlefeather refused Marlon Brando’s Oscar for “The Godfather” on his behalf, instead using the stage to highlight the mistreatment of her people in Hollywood.

Native American actress and activist Sacheen Littlefeather, who died earlier this month at the age of 75, has been exposed as an ethnic fraud by her two sisters.

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