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Oct 3, 2022 · Sacheen Littlefeather, the actor and activist who declined Marlon Brando’s 1973 Academy Award for “The Godfather” on his behalf in an indelible protest of Hollywood’s portrayal of Native ...
Jun 3, 2021 · Sacheen Littlefeather today. A few years later, when she was 29, Littlefeather’s lungs collapsed – a consequence of her childhood tuberculosis – and she became very ill. She found taking a ...
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Oct 3, 2022 · Sacheen Littlefeather, a Native American actress and activist who made Oscars history in 1973, declining the best actor prize on behalf of Marlon Brando and jolting the Academy — and an ...
Oct 2, 2022 · Sacheen Littlefeather, Who Delivered Marlon Brando’s Oscar Rejection Speech, Dies at 75. The Academy formally apologized to the Native American activist and former actress in June after she was ...
Oct 7, 2022 · Actor and activist Sacheen Littlefeather, best known for declining Marlon Brando's 1973 Oscar to protest Hollywood's treatment of Native Americans, has died at the age of 75.
Mar 31, 2022 · In 1973, an activist named Sacheen Littlefeather did come to the Oscars at the behest of Marlon Brando, and turned down his Academy Award for Best Actor in protest of the treatment of Native ...
Aug 15, 2022 · The first time Sacheen Littlefeather encountered the Academy, in 1973, she was booed onstage at the Oscars, heckled with mock ululations and so-called “tomahawk chops” offstage, and threatened ...
