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1973 Wounded Knee: Sacheen Littlefeather accepts Marlon Brando’s Best Actor Oscar
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-28 at 3.42.49 PM_thumb.png2022-10-28T22:43:46+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a4911Sacheen Littlefeather accepts Marlon Brando’s Best Actor Oscar Win for “The Godfather” (1973). Apache 26 year old actress & activist, Sacheen Littlefeather, President of the National Native American Affirmative Image Committee was invited by Marlon Brando to speak. Brando refused to accept the award as Littlefeather details because of the treatment of Native Americans today by the film industry, tv, and at Wounded Knee. Prohibited from giving her entire speech, Littlefeather is both boo’d and applauded. She met with the press afterwards. In 2022, The Academy Awards apologized to Sacheen Littlefeather nearly 50 years laterplain2022-10-28T22:43:46+00:001973Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49