Sasheen Littlefeather Who Turned Down the Oscar for Sacha Littlefeather: Died

Sasheen Littlefeather, a Native American activist who turned down Marlon Brando’s Oscar for The Godfather in 1973, died at the age of 75. She had breast cancer and passed away on Sunday.

SASHEEN LITTLEFEATHER WHO TURNED DOWN AN OSCAR FOR SACHA LITTLEFEATHER, PASSES AWAY.

THE ACADEMY SAID ABOUT HER.

Two weeks after the organisation honoured her at an event in Los Angeles and officially apologised for how it treated her at the Oscars, she passed away.

50 years ago, during a gathering, Her Littlefeather, an Apache and Yaqui descendant, was jeered as she spoke on stage.

Maria Cruz, a Californian native, at the first globally televised Academy Awards in full Apache attire to protest and draw attention to the film industry’s treatment of her Native American as the best actor in a mafia movie. declared to the brand that it does not accept Injured knee protest.

In order to protest government atrocities, hundreds of villagers ssembled in the nearby South Dakotan community of Wounded Her Nee in 1973. An acrimonious altercation with federal agents that erupted as a result of the protest lasted 71 days.

“SPEAK THE TRUTH”

“I went there like a proud Indian woman with dignity,  courage, grace, and humility,” she recalled of current events.

“I knew  I had to tell the truth. Some people will accept it. Screen Actors Guild member Littlefeather later struggled to get a job in the industry, but said, ‘It’s too late to apologize.’ Never…it’s never too late to forgive.”

HER LAST SPEECH

Littlefeather came the stage in a wheelchair during the happy event held at the Academy last month, and the audience, which was was largely made up of people from the film business and Aboriginal communities, laugh and enjoy themselves. “I did not speak for myself. I spoke on behalf of all present Indigenous people. Indians in general. I’ve never heard it expressed that way, “For almost 50 years, she claimed. When questioned about her earlier Oscar speech, she told the.

The Apache actress and activist said she had been bullying for decades for the speech. “Someone had to do it. And it was fine. And I had to pay the price.”

When she delivers her political Oscar speech the following year,perhaps when she accepts he rown Oscar. After Littlefeather’s speech, the rules were changing and the winner was prohibited from sending others to collect or refuse the statuette.

SHE RECALL THE MOMENT FROM 1973.

Littlefeather recalled the occasion when she left the stage in 1973 during a recent interview.”I got hitting with the stereotypical Tomahawk chop. People called me and I ignored them all,” she recalls. “I left a few armed guards at my side and continued walking straight ahead, holding my head high, knowing that I was the first Indigenous woman to make such a political statement in the history of the Academy Awards. I was proud.

“At the time, in 1973, there was a media blackout against Wounding Knee and the Native American movement that occupied it,” she continued. “Marlon called them ahead of time and asked them to come to see the Oscars.

Moreover, “Seeing me onstage referencing her injured knee in South Dakota, rejecting an Oscar because of film industry stereotypes, would break a media boycott.

 

In 2020, Littlefeather told that she had to leave the stage with two security guards shortly after her speech. But she added that it was “very good” to have actor John Wayne backstage.  Littlefeather has appeared in movies like The Trial of Billy Jack, Johnny Firecloud, and Counselor at Crime, but has been blacklisted by the industry. she said she returned to San Francisco after being forced to continue her activities and to continue her health care and work in the theater.

WRITER AND BIOLOGIST RUTH H. ROBERTSON,

also known as the Red Road Woman of the Dakota/Lakota Sioux, said Monday, citing Sasheen Littlefeather’s research at the American Indian AIDS Institute in San Francisco, Complimented online.

LAKOTA MANN TWEETED

“Mourning the loss of Littlefeather from the bottom of my heart. Wishing her the best of luck on  her journey,” he later added, adding, “My tributes to her.”

TV WRITER JOEY CLIFT SAID

We are talking about Things Littlefeather. RIP.” In announcing her death online, the Academy quotes Sasheen Littlefeather, the subject of the 2021 documentary “Sacheen: Breaking the Silence,” saying, “Even after I’m gone, I will always remember you.” Furthermore, Please, my voice, and the voice of our nations and the living.”

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