I understand Littlefether, while living in San Francisco many years after her Academy Awards activities, got involved in HIV/AIDS protests,and activism. She claimed her brother died from HIV complications. According to her sisters, and other sources, she NEVER had a brother!
There are no brothers. Marie, Trudy, and Rosalind Cruz in that order. And none of them had children. So there are only the 2 biological heirs. Her sisters.
Pretendianism is theft, period. If one is not Native, one has no business claiming Indigeneous ancestry. Native peoples have been warm and welcoming. To take advantage of this and identify as if one is Native (by birthright) when one is not is another form of cultural/genetic genocide. Those of us who are not Native can be supporters and allies. That said, as someone who is "mixed" --part white and part minority-- the question is asked here by TheN8ivePatriot, "If one is half white and half minority, why would someone choose to be half minority?" For many of us who are mixed, it isn't a "choice." We are who we are. Being mixed with both ancestries is our authenticity. Being mixed does come --at different times-- with privilege, misidentification, unbelonging (or situational/contextual/conditional unbelonging & belonging, being claimed by other groups, etc.). That is part of the experience of being "within, between, and beyond" categorization (especially racial categorization) as mixed people ---which is one of the problematic carryovers of colonialism. This is an important topic. There are many mixed Native people. Claiming Indigeneity for those who are mixed IS a birthright. However, if resources are attached, I think some of the legal definitions of being Native will probably have to be employed. If, for example, someone who is Mexican, who grew up Mexican and Latino/a/x then suddenly decides to claim their Native ancestry (they can and should "claim" it all they want as part of their family's history and heritage) but to then take resources from the Yaqui, Apache, Mayan, Aztec,Tepehuán, Huichol, Náhuatl, Tarahumara, Cora, Mazahua, etc. peoples is not okay. There are layers to one's identity: social, cultural, biological, ethnic, legal, etc. This is an important conversation to be had so no further injury is inflicted upon Native peoples.
You asked why would a mix person say they are a minority... because they have nowhere to go, because whites won't claim or except them. Hispanic are who are Mexican can claim their native side too. Unfortunately her tribe is not Apache, so it's problematic.
I have native blood. However, if your ancestors have been in North America since the 1600’s you almost certainly have Native blood. My ancestors on both my father and mother’s sides can be traced back to 1630, just 9 years after the Mayflower. There are numerous ancestors that are full blood and half Native American. I even have a great grandfather that was full blood Cherokee from Kentucky. But I don’t think any of that gives me the right to claim to be Native American. I am mostly Scots, Irish, English, and French. Although I haven’t found the evidence yet, I am certain that I have black heritage as well. That does not give me the right to claim to be Black. I am am very mixed, a mutt, as are any Americans whose ancestors were here in the 1600’s. I would consider misappropriation to claim to be Native American. It is attention seeking behavior and claiming victimhood. Shame on them!
Did you do a dna test? What does it say? The Anglos didn’t mix with native Americans, since they didn’t consider them to be human beings or have a soul! This is also why they didn’t bother to integrate or evangelize them, like the Spanish did. The majority of Anglos don’t have native blood! Do a dna test and you’ll see!!
@@user-tm5em4vu7u Pink legend and Spaniard invaders were the ones who were supposed to integrate into the societies they tried to budge in without anyone asking them to be around. Now Spain is now enjoying the same phenomenon they forced onto others, ie, enjoy the diversity of foreigners not integrating into Spanish society.
For real! but according to the comments in this video, as long her website SAYS she has native lineage, she's native. Or if it turns out she's of mexican descent, then therefore she is Native and can claim she's apache 😄🙄😒
**PLEASE READ BEFORE COMMENTING* I’ve gotten A LOT of annoying comments and before you comment something annoying that someone has already said, please read: 1. There is a debate whether Mexicans qualify as “Native American/indigenous.” That WASN’T the point of the video. Personally, myself and other U.S. Native American tribes don’t typically include people indigenous to Mexico as “Native Americans” for various reasons. 2. “Littlefeather” clearly identified herself as Yaqui and Apache and according to people who tried to confirm her claim, that was unclear. If you came away with anything different, you clearly didn’t listen to the whole video.
Indigenous ppl native to a continent are still native of said continent wether other natives of that continent wish to recognize them or not. Your consideration of who you see as native doesn’t change the fact that Mexican ppl are indigenous to the Americas and as indigenous ppls are native to the Americas as well. As to the Apache etc, her father told them that saying they were from that area etc it’s in the tweets the sister made to that writer that’s racist to black ppl, keeler or whatever.
i am part yaqui and white and it would be weird to act full native she took it too far with the lie and her costume that dosent even match the tribe she says she is in. interesting yaqui is a usa and mexico boarder tribe so my family often says were mexican because amado arizona was part mexico at one time.
All $5 looking "Native" Americans. See "$5 Dollar Indians: Pay To Play" on Indigenous history in America going from Dark Brown = INDIAN RED (NFL WASHINGTON "REDSKINS" to Pale looking. It's all IDENTITY THEFT OF THE ORIGINAL PEOPLE IN AMERICA(S). BLESSINGS!
Most white people I knew growing up always said they were "Indian" (Native American) and throwing out Cherokee or Apache as their tribe. Blonde hair, blue eyes, not an ounce of color externally.... and I'm sure some of them might have had some in them, but honestly, I think they'd say it to "belong" to something. We only knew one true Native American at school, and not only was she Native American but she lived in her culture with her family. They'd travel out to events to stay connected and it was obvious they stood proud of who they were. In Salinas California, where Lightfeather was from, it was predominantly Mexican families, and to this day, still, mostly Mexican but now there are folks from El Salvador and Guatemala mixed in with the Latino culture.
@@AhNee if you look like leo dicaprio more than crazy horse you are only native in your dreams. in many cases the average mexican looks more native than many of these white looking so called native guys.its a fucking scam
this new sisters... they look like having a big voice out there now... did they say something valuable and according to moral values or they just criticized their supposed sister for not having "enough indian blood"? it seems to me like a modern speech of the millenial type "cultural appropriation"... they take you wherever they want these mass tamers.@@rozalilu1 And of course i want at least to see who these sisters look like and fotos together... otherwise... for me ist just a PSY0p in your face
Yeah there are a lot of people in comments saying because she is or may be half Mexican, she's "indigenous" or "native" so it's okay cuz I guess Mexicans are the same as American Indians? I don't accept that because we have very different cultures, not to mention, American Indians don't speak Spanish. I'm sure there are "tribes" in California that identify as Indian that speak Spanish but now I'm rambling.
@@then8ivepatriothello..I'm Rosalind Cruz. People are waking up. We're 69% European includes our father. Portuguese, Italian, congo among others. 31% Spanish Conquistadors who arrived in Mexico 1700. Mix match whatever we're still Mexican American. Maybe a couple of indigenous hair strands.
This made me laugh. Maybe she "identified" as a native American. obviously tongue-in-cheek. I am mixed. I mean REALLY mixed. My 23 and Me backs up our family tradition of hasty unplanned procreation with whoever was available. When I fill out forms that ask for race, I write in "Texan". Why the hell does my race matter when filling out an employment application? Anyway, I enjoyed your video. I'll see you at the next gathering of anyone with more than 0.9% native blood. 😀 Cheers!
There are more Native American Indians living in Mexico than there are in the USA and Canada combined. There are 40 million Mexicans living in the United States today. Let that sink in. There are only 4 million people in the US that claim to be Native American on the US census and most of those have mixed ancestry. Only around 1 million or less Native Americans in the US can be considered full-blooded and those live on Reservations that separate them from the general population. When the Spaniards discovered the Americas they claimed all the ground/ land the property for Spain. They declared war on anybody that resisted them and took over. They destroyed all the cities they encountered and built new cities on top of them. They forced everyone to convert to the Catholic church, speak Spanish and take Spanish names or face instant death. Cortez after conquering Mexico married an Indian girl named Maleche and they had four sons. It was interesting history, her mother sold her to the Mayans to be a slave, (Melache's father died and her mother remarried, and Maleche stood to inherit her father's wealth and position but her mother wanted that to go to another sibling). Cortez bought her because she could speak Nautal and because she could draw him a map of the Aztec city. Sacheen Little Feather is a Mexican Indian or Chicano as she was born in the US. Remember that the Aztecs recorded that they came from the North meaning that they came from what is today the United States.
Many people of mixed heritage identify as the minority because they may not look "purely" Caucasian. They would be considered ambiguous or "other." For example, the actress Halle Berry. She is mixed-race (White & black). She identifies as black because she cannot pass for white. It would probably cause outrage, in some quarters, if she were to claim that she was White. As far as concerns Littlefeather, she may not be of the tribes she claims, but being part Mexican, she almost certainly is at least part indigenous. Is the U.S. filled with racists? Well, there are many good people there, but there are problems too. Hopefully, at some point, things will get where they need to be.
But they don't "purely" look like minority too so that doesn't make sense either 🤔 also, some may argue that Mexican and Native aren't Native American since Mexicans have heavy latino culture and speak Spanish and Native Americans do not. It's not the same
@@then8ivepatriot "some may argue that Mexican and Native aren't Native American since Mexicans have heavy latino culture and speak Spanish and Native Americans do not." NAtive tribes from MExico and other parts of latin america speak spanish and have "latino" culture from being colonized, they are still Amerindians tho in race
@@then8ivepatriot .Well cousin..all in the western hemisphere are native American..north,central..south..the red people who were first here are the original native Americans..
I would rather call us American indian than native American ..if in the u.s. ..its what uncle Sam has called us in those law books..when it comes down to it..for me ..I call my relatives thier tribes name
She was a member of what is usually called a "minority." "Hispanics" include Caucasians and many who are mixed between Caucasian and Native American as well as some black people who happen to have Spanish surnames.
Search for Alyssa London (Miss USA 2017). She is mostly white (Czech and Norwegian) but because she is 1/4 Tlingit, all of her media she shares focuses on her indigenous side.
I'm in my late 60s. Biracial wasn't a thing until relatively recently. According to the one drop rule if you had some negro ancestry (and folks around you knew), you were negro. I'm not sure if the concept was as stringent for other races, but the idea carried through. It does seem strange that 'passing' has shifted from transitioning to be white to transitioning to be of other ethnicities, but people are strange or society is strange. Strange is all around.
The answer is because it helps people of privilege to claim victimhood or to fit in because they themselves have personal and emotional issues having to do with their identity. It has become a norm that if you are white or are half white that that part of your ancestry is inherently bad and therefore you should not be proud of it or claim it. You see racism become more of an acceptable behavior because of this. Now we have racist who Don't intend on being racist but they inevitably do because they don't want to be white. That's a form of internalized racism.
Why do people connect with their Native rather than white ancestry when they have both? Not too many years ago, just about every American wanted to be white. Merle Oberon had to allow the studios to dummy up a background in which her Polynesian ancestry vanished. For the past few decades, we've been very aware of traditional white privilege and the oppression by whites of others. Linking to the non-white part means obliterating the "oppressor" and "privileged" part of oneself. In the case of Native Americans, there is still a holdover from the "Noble Savage" myth. Some people see Native people through rose-colored lenses and believe everything was beautiful harmony before people from Italy, Spain, England, and other parts of Europe introduced all sorts of evils onto the hemisphere. Thus, people lose interest in the European parts of themselves and focus entirely on the Native part.
This also is misleading. It is the government (Dept Of The Interior) that defines who is native American because it entitles them to special healthcare benefits etc. She fits that definition - bar is set low because their "white" component often resulted from rape etc. Get a life.
@@tlamatini4617 Well, it's widely accepted that we all emerged from Africa so that's nice. I did development work with US tribes and saw 2 reasons outsiders wanted to join, or make claims: (1) for those benefits; (2) because they really really like the look of tribal life, generally very chummy and kind communities, like extended families. I also worked a lot in Africa, folks there think extremely fast, its pure fun.
“Why do people choose to identify with the minority part of them when they are half white” - for me, I’m half Irish/Spanish and half Mexican but I always choose to identify as completely Mexican. That is because I have zeroooo knowledge about Irish and Spanish culture! I don’t know a single thing about that culture! No food no dances no nothing! I did not grow up with any Irish or Spanish traditions. But on the other hand, I grew up with a bunch of Mexican traditions! I grew up in a Mexican ass family. That’s my story and I think that’s the case for most mixed people. It definitely was probably a similar case with Sacheen. No way she grew up with “German/Dutch” traditions. In Salinas, California? Lol bye. I will never say “I’m Irish/Spanish” because that would simply sound wrong to me cuz I have nooo idea what that even means. And I’m sure that’s why Sacheen never identified with “Dutch/German”.
That is because they can and they want to get attention and benefits for the time being and then go on their way its called doing it whwn its convenient simple
Thank you!!! 👏👏👏👏 some people in these comments are like "well Mexican is tEcHnIcAlLy indigenous." No! These people lie because it gives them a type of "edge."
@@then8ivepatriot yup it makes them seem interesting ie more enticing than just being what they are in this case plain old white ie exotic when in reality as soon as they are done they go back to their boring privileged lives not only that but afterwards they would go and spit on others who are not them so sad
I believe Hypatia Lee considered herself Native American and she is only 1/4 Native American. This is also somewhat typical with people grabbing onto any Native link and calling themselves Native.
This is misleading. It is the government (Dept Of The Interior) that defines who is native American because it entitles them to special healthcare benefits etc. She fits that definition - bar is set low because their "white" component often resulted from rape etc. Get a life.
Mexicans are mostly native. There are more natives in Mexico than they are natives in Canada and USA combined (Mexico has the most Indigenous in all of the Americas) and the average “Mestizo” is over 55% or more Indigenous on average.
So you're negating their Native-ness based on the colonialist concept of blood quantum which was constructed to breed us into extinction? Good to hear.
My great grandmother was born and raised on a cherokee reservation until she was 8 but I know that since my great grandmother the blood line has been thinned out. I couldn't tell you much more than that. My mom has her birth certificate and a paper with a little more info out of Oklahoma. I cant claim it as my heritage but its just information about her I'm also of irish-English (grandpa) descent . Irish on my dad's side and English and a itsy bity tiny bit cherokee on mom side . I'm just satisfied to be from anywhere lol
@@truthseeker2000. How do you know this fir sure ? You think a birth certificate out of this society is all the proof you need ? Well other red people see her as red
I’m not excusing if she lied etc but she does have native blood…..her dad was mestizo as were his parents despite what the article you read said….Mexicans and other Latin Americans have native Indio/Indian blood….just because white Americans want to call those now in the USA ONLY native Americans doesn’t take away the fact……..your question about mixed white and Indian people only identifying with the native is crazy to me….do you tell this to the millions of black Americans who, as we know now, have white/Caucasian blood in them yet they identify as black? I bet you don’t! There are many Indians on reservations who are mixed white and you can tell just by looking at them who live off the govt, do you question them? FYI and idk how old you are BUT When you grew up mixed race in past times you had NO choice in this racist country but to identify with your minority side because nasty people always reminded you that you were that minority
First of all Missy, You wanna have an attitude? then I can have an attitude too 💅🏾 maybe my question is crazy to you because you're so thick in the Skull and emotional you can't have a adult conversation without getting your underwear in a twist. And I find your statement "there are many Indians on reservations who are mixed white and you can just tell by looking at them who live off the govt" JUST AS CRAZY to me 🙄🙄 do you TELL THAT TO THOSE NATIVES "hey you're mixed white and I can tell ur living off the govt by just looking at you"?! Hahaha bet not! 😅😅😅 girl get off the internet and go have a cupcake or something - you seem hangry
@@then8ivepatriot girl please, you’re a racist bigot, you bet your loose cornhole on what I said, you’re quick to talk about others but are mad when someone calls out the truth? FYI I sure have called out white “natives” living off the government, not paying a dime in taxes and getting drunk every day…..again, do you tell this to black FBA’s with white ancestors….? I think not big girl! Your video is FULL of attitude, you and your yellow tooth ass ask what we think then you attempt to pop off, no mam fat Pam! You can sit that wobbly ass down somewhere with that mess! You only like truths that are convenient to you, AND miss thing if you want to REALLY get read even more, I’ll let you know the “true natives of this country” were darker than you….. now hop off the net because you can’t handle facts and people not agreeing with you
Haha yeah lost my loose cornhole like you're losing yours in my comments right now calling me a bigot when you don't like people giving you a taste of how you approach people. When you learn how to comment on a video without being an emotional mess calling people names then maybe one day someone will actually take you seriously. when I have time, like you have a lot of... I'll give you the attention you're desperate for 💋 PS subscribe 😉
@@then8ivepatriot girl please, all that gibberish trying to change the narrative……I figured you wouldn’t answer, I KNOW you’d never talk to a black person like that….just like I answered your pathetic claim that I wouldn’t say that to the freeloaders…..stating facts you can’t grip obviously shook you, the channel is tired, like the person running it
@@then8ivepatriot girl please, all that gibberish trying to change the narrative……I figured you wouldn’t answer, I KNOW you’d never talk to a black person like that….just like I answered your pathetic claim that I wouldn’t say that to the freeloaders…..stating facts you can’t grip obviously shook you, the channel is tired, like the person running it
Sure is true , they like to take the minority side to seem more proud to be native .. I don’t know to me jus as long as there happy to have some sort native DNA , and respect it .. then everything should be fine .. good topic tho 👍🏼
Some sort? If I have some sort of white blood in me but “respect it,” is it okay for me to start identifying as white and speaking on behalf of white folks? 🤔
@@then8ivepatriot With that same logic.... Little feather couldn’t claim as being white and start speaking for the white community. Remember... she is only half white.
@@rozalilu1 Ok then. Open borders for Spain/Europe. Anyone is now welcome. Come on over Africans and Muslims. All the money, food, and housing is on us 😊.
@tlamatini4617 that was back in 1700. I didn't know my ancestors. And we didn't know the ancestors who crossed the border during the Mexican American war. Today's borders are another issue. We're in the 21st century, and I agree with you
@@rozalilu1her sister is so full of hate and rage I wouldn’t believe everything she says ,especially what she says about birth certificates being forged that’s so outrageous and bogus I never heard of any birth certificates listing someone race smh
Sasheen Ribbon Company is her adopted name. Changed s to c. The entire name is a stage name. Not legal. Marie is not registered or any family documentation to either WMA or Yaqui. Those statements were made by Tribal who researched
Total fraud and not Native American or Indigenous at all. All ancestors are listed as white or Mexican on legal documents going back to 1500 when they migrated from Spain. Do some research. Latest article is by Chickasaw journalist Anthony Perry March 6, 2024 Daily Beast
Judge not that ye be not judged! Only small minds dwell on such nonsense. It matters not whether she was a native person, but only matters how she lived her life. Her beliefs, thoughts and actions were actually more Native American than some full blood Indians. Further, Mexican people, especially Apache, had traces to Aztec, Mayan and other tribal affiliations. ~ High Eagle speaks, a true native elder.
Quanah Parker was a white Comanche chief... And Rosslyn Cruz aims she is Apache ... These sis had a real conflict of they parents inheritance so believe what ever... I known Rosslyn personally claiming she is Apache and both where attending the red road for native Alcoholic Anonymous... So yeah I meant them both so it seems as those the statement from a sister is envivest to they sisters fame and known to the world .. therefore is her Sister a lair to. Claim she is Apache in the Bay Area.... I see you a person discriminate and is prejudice to us real native of these country.. I'm Díné-navajo from Díné I'm not American....!!???
Really? Lemme ask you this, are you also gonna tell black people to be grateful for Rachel Dolezal? Serious question. If yes, please film yourself telling black people they should be grateful for Rachel dolezal and send me the video so I can see what response you get!
I don’t follow this line of thinking. I don’t applaud people for lying because they “had positive intentions.” The ends don’t justify the means cuz you could make any ill formed argument based on that.
A lie is a lie, don't excuse it, she was never Native American, hence everything she stood for was a lie, she took the spot light off of actual Native Americans suffering on reservations.
but how do you know if she lied, have we seen any evidence? she speaks on the camera but where are the camera testimony of those who say she lies about herself?
Her father was born in Oxnard, CA and Native to California not NA. His ancestors are from Mexico and then Spain. So dig Eons back to find a trace of indigenous DNA. The ggggma story
@@rozalilu1 woaw... Did you check their information in the civil registry, did you do a thorough research in the church records? or you just read that somewhere random xD
@nayarom3522 that has already been done by the same Navajo journalist and activist Jacqueline Keeler. Including Lianna Constantino Cherokee of TAAF, David Cornsilk Cherokee, and a team of NA volunteers and outside researchers. Same group that exposed Liz Warren, Cruz, aka Littlefeather, Buffy, and a white woman, Heather Rae Bybee "Cherokee" producer taking jobs in IllumiNative. Google Jacqueline Keeler substack on Cruz, it gives the breakdown. Cruz's sister did a DNA with 70% European to include that 5% indigenous thread of most Mexicans. White Mountain Apache and Yaqui tribes made public statements that neither she nor her family dead or alive have any documentation, affiliation, or community. Zero, it doesn't exist. Sasheen Ribbon company is how she got her name. Just changed the spelling and it's Russian. You can buy it on eBay. President Native American Affirmative Image Committee?? Doesn't exist. Wearing a Plains buckskin dress instead of traditional Apache and hairstyle?? Central casting. There were a dozen red flags b4 she left the stage. An actress acting to the actors at the Oscar's to break into the business.
Let's say this is true...should I do what a lot of people are doing and IDENTIFY as European even tho I clearly don't look European and might be 1/200th European?? 😅😅 The answer is no lmao
@@then8ivepatriot that's exactly my point. Littlefeather doesn't look European and neither do a lot of other mixed natives. Which is why they identify as native. Thanks for proving my point
Um no. You clearly missed the point of the whole video because I hurt your little feefees. If these people are MIXED with European, they never identify as WHITE. Again, let's assume I'm a small part of European... I'm not gonna claim the SMALL percentage of European (again in this made of scenario) that I am. I'm not gonna be going around saying "I'm European" because of a small percentage.
I understand Littlefether, while living in San Francisco many years after her Academy Awards activities, got involved in HIV/AIDS protests,and activism. She claimed her brother died from HIV complications. According to her sisters, and other sources, she NEVER had a brother!
There are no brothers. Marie, Trudy, and Rosalind Cruz in that order. And none of them had children. So there are only the 2 biological heirs. Her sisters.
Pretendianism is theft, period. If one is not Native, one has no business claiming Indigeneous ancestry. Native peoples have been warm and welcoming. To take advantage of this and identify as if one is Native (by birthright) when one is not is another form of cultural/genetic genocide. Those of us who are not Native can be supporters and allies. That said, as someone who is "mixed" --part white and part minority-- the question is asked here by TheN8ivePatriot, "If one is half white and half minority, why would someone choose to be half minority?" For many of us who are mixed, it isn't a "choice." We are who we are. Being mixed with both ancestries is our authenticity. Being mixed does come --at different times-- with privilege, misidentification, unbelonging (or situational/contextual/conditional unbelonging & belonging, being claimed by other groups, etc.). That is part of the experience of being "within, between, and beyond" categorization (especially racial categorization) as mixed people ---which is one of the problematic carryovers of colonialism. This is an important topic. There are many mixed Native people. Claiming Indigeneity for those who are mixed IS a birthright. However, if resources are attached, I think some of the legal definitions of being Native will probably have to be employed. If, for example, someone who is Mexican, who grew up Mexican and Latino/a/x then suddenly decides to claim their Native ancestry (they can and should "claim" it all they want as part of their family's history and heritage) but to then take resources from the Yaqui, Apache, Mayan, Aztec,Tepehuán, Huichol, Náhuatl, Tarahumara, Cora, Mazahua, etc. peoples is not okay. There are layers to one's identity: social, cultural, biological, ethnic, legal, etc. This is an important conversation to be had so no further injury is inflicted upon Native peoples.
You asked why would a mix person say they are a minority... because they have nowhere to go, because whites won't claim or except them.
Hispanic are who are Mexican can claim their native side too. Unfortunately her tribe is not Apache, so it's problematic.
I have native blood. However, if your ancestors have been in North America since the 1600’s you almost certainly have Native blood. My ancestors on both my father and mother’s sides can be traced back to 1630, just 9 years after the Mayflower. There are numerous ancestors that are full blood and half Native American. I even have a great grandfather that was full blood Cherokee from Kentucky. But I don’t think any of that gives me the right to claim to be Native American. I am mostly Scots, Irish, English, and French. Although I haven’t found the evidence yet, I am certain that I have black heritage as well. That does not give me the right to claim to be Black. I am am very mixed, a mutt, as are any Americans whose ancestors were here in the 1600’s. I would consider misappropriation to claim to be Native American. It is attention seeking behavior and claiming victimhood. Shame on them!
Finally! A very intelligent take! These types of people want to be “special” so they claim the 1/673th Cherokee 😅
Did you do a dna test? What does it say? The Anglos didn’t mix with native Americans, since they didn’t consider them to be human beings or have a soul! This is also why they didn’t bother to integrate or evangelize them, like the Spanish did. The majority of Anglos don’t have native blood! Do a dna test and you’ll see!!
@@user-tm5em4vu7u Pink legend and Spaniard invaders were the ones who were supposed to integrate into the societies they tried to budge in without anyone asking them to be around. Now Spain is now enjoying the same phenomenon they forced onto others, ie, enjoy the diversity of foreigners not integrating into Spanish society.
Me too I have only 1% Native American 🇺🇸 per DNA 🧬 that’s not enough to claim it
Wrong! Cherokee never settled in Kentucky. Your grandparents was not full blooded anything but white.
I could tell she ain't apache .. I'm apache we don't have names like. 'Little feather"
For real! but according to the comments in this video, as long her website SAYS she has native lineage, she's native. Or if it turns out she's of mexican descent, then therefore she is Native and can claim she's apache 😄🙄😒
Her sister's are working on taking that website down
**PLEASE READ BEFORE COMMENTING*
I’ve gotten A LOT of annoying comments and before you comment something annoying that someone has already said, please read:
1. There is a debate whether Mexicans qualify as “Native American/indigenous.” That WASN’T the point of the video. Personally, myself and other U.S. Native American tribes don’t typically include people indigenous to Mexico as “Native Americans” for various reasons.
2. “Littlefeather” clearly identified herself as Yaqui and Apache and according to people who tried to confirm her claim, that was unclear. If you came away with anything different, you clearly didn’t listen to the whole video.
Correct!!!
Indigenous ppl native to a continent are still native of said continent wether other natives of that continent wish to recognize them or not. Your consideration of who you see as native doesn’t change the fact that Mexican ppl are indigenous to the Americas and as indigenous ppls are native to the Americas as well. As to the Apache etc, her father told them that saying they were from that area etc it’s in the tweets the sister made to that writer that’s racist to black ppl, keeler or whatever.
@@GigiPicasso cool opinion, thanks =)
i am part yaqui and white and it would be weird to act full native she took it too far with the lie and her costume that dosent even match the tribe she says she is in. interesting yaqui is a usa and mexico boarder tribe so my family often says were mexican because amado arizona was part mexico at one time.
The borrowed Buckskin dress that she wore was Plains not Apache. Why NA didn't point that out long ago I'll newer know
All $5 looking "Native" Americans. See "$5 Dollar Indians: Pay To Play" on Indigenous history in America going from Dark Brown = INDIAN RED (NFL WASHINGTON "REDSKINS" to Pale looking. It's all IDENTITY THEFT OF THE ORIGINAL PEOPLE IN AMERICA(S). BLESSINGS!
You BEN HURRrrr ?
I dont understand why mixed people shun their whiteness, if you are multiple, why can you simply not just accept who you are as a whole?
I don't shun my whiteness..life is a process of continuous growth as Bruce said..as the Spirit said before any else
She was an actress interested primarily in an acting career in Hollywood.
Agreed! She had her own agenda.
she had me fooled and now i look at her she dosent looks as much yaqui as i thought more spanish.
Most white people I knew growing up always said they were "Indian" (Native American) and throwing out Cherokee or Apache as their tribe. Blonde hair, blue eyes, not an ounce of color externally.... and I'm sure some of them might have had some in them, but honestly, I think they'd say it to "belong" to something. We only knew one true Native American at school, and not only was she Native American but she lived in her culture with her family. They'd travel out to events to stay connected and it was obvious they stood proud of who they were. In Salinas California, where Lightfeather was from, it was predominantly Mexican families, and to this day, still, mostly Mexican but now there are folks from El Salvador and Guatemala mixed in with the Latino culture.
considering how modern politics treat white people nowadays no wonder why they try to pass as natives.
Native people come in all shades, including pale and blonde.
@@AhNee thats bs if they are blonde and pale that means they are less than a quarter native, and that means they are mestizos.
@@deumevet Wrong. You are going by colonialist views. GTFOH with that bullshit.
@@AhNee if you look like leo dicaprio more than crazy horse you are only native in your dreams. in many cases the average mexican looks more native than many of these white looking so called native guys.its a fucking scam
Wow she has a webpage that says she's native American. Surely nobody could type up there own web pages
For real! It’s like…"go to her website for the facts!"…but she’s or her team are the ones making the claims 😅
That Website of Marie/Sacheen is being removed by her sister's. It's fictitious
this new sisters... they look like having a big voice out there now... did they say something valuable and according to moral values or they just criticized their supposed sister for not having "enough indian blood"? it seems to me like a modern speech of the millenial type "cultural appropriation"... they take you wherever they want these mass tamers.@@rozalilu1 And of course i want at least to see who these sisters look like and fotos together... otherwise... for me ist just a PSY0p in your face
Her father was Mexican coming from Oxnard.
Yeah there are a lot of people in comments saying because she is or may be half Mexican, she's "indigenous" or "native" so it's okay cuz I guess Mexicans are the same as American Indians? I don't accept that because we have very different cultures, not to mention, American Indians don't speak Spanish. I'm sure there are "tribes" in California that identify as Indian that speak Spanish but now I'm rambling.
@@then8ivepatriothello..I'm Rosalind Cruz. People are waking up. We're 69% European includes our father. Portuguese, Italian, congo among others. 31% Spanish Conquistadors who arrived in Mexico 1700. Mix match whatever we're still Mexican American. Maybe a couple of indigenous hair strands.
south and northamerica have american indians... "los indios" and there were many tribes.. even blond ones @@then8ivepatriot
Victim hood is currency.
I need a 💯 reaction button 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
This made me laugh. Maybe she "identified" as a native American. obviously tongue-in-cheek.
I am mixed. I mean REALLY mixed. My 23 and Me backs up our family tradition of hasty unplanned procreation with whoever was available. When I fill out forms that ask for race, I write in "Texan". Why the hell does my race matter when filling out an employment application? Anyway, I enjoyed your video. I'll see you at the next gathering of anyone with more than 0.9% native blood. 😀 Cheers!
Thank you sir. Not cbs new best writing. Do the employ editors?
There are more Native American Indians living in Mexico than there are in the USA and Canada combined. There are 40 million Mexicans living in the United States today. Let that sink in. There are only 4 million people in the US that claim to be Native American on the US census and most of those have mixed ancestry. Only around 1 million or less Native Americans in the US can be considered full-blooded and those live on Reservations that separate them from the general population. When the Spaniards discovered the Americas they claimed all the ground/ land the property for Spain. They declared war on anybody that resisted them and took over. They destroyed all the cities they encountered and built new cities on top of them. They forced everyone to convert to the Catholic church, speak Spanish and take Spanish names or face instant death. Cortez after conquering Mexico married an Indian girl named Maleche and they had four sons. It was interesting history, her mother sold her to the Mayans to be a slave, (Melache's father died and her mother remarried, and Maleche stood to inherit her father's wealth and position but her mother wanted that to go to another sibling). Cortez bought her because she could speak Nautal and because she could draw him a map of the Aztec city. Sacheen Little Feather is a Mexican Indian or Chicano as she was born in the US. Remember that the Aztecs recorded that they came from the North meaning that they came from what is today the United States.
Many people of mixed heritage identify as the minority because they may not look "purely" Caucasian. They would be considered ambiguous or "other."
For example, the actress Halle Berry. She is mixed-race (White & black). She identifies as black because she cannot pass for white. It would probably cause outrage, in some quarters, if she were to claim that she was White.
As far as concerns Littlefeather, she may not be of the tribes she claims, but being part Mexican, she almost certainly is at least part indigenous.
Is the U.S. filled with racists? Well, there are many good people there, but there are problems too. Hopefully, at some point, things will get where they need to be.
But they don't "purely" look like minority too so that doesn't make sense either 🤔 also, some may argue that Mexican and Native aren't Native American since Mexicans have heavy latino culture and speak Spanish and Native Americans do not. It's not the same
@@then8ivepatriot "some may argue that Mexican and Native aren't Native American since Mexicans have heavy latino culture and speak Spanish and Native Americans do not." NAtive tribes from MExico and other parts of latin america speak spanish and have "latino" culture from being colonized, they are still Amerindians tho in race
@@then8ivepatriot .Well cousin..all in the western hemisphere are native American..north,central..south..the red people who were first here are the original native Americans..
I would rather call us American indian than native American ..if in the u.s. ..its what uncle Sam has called us in those law books..when it comes down to it..for me ..I call my relatives thier tribes name
@@AikoSilver . We're talking culture Vrs ethnicity..you have goods points
3:12 one drop rule, ask Frederick Douglass why
Her actual name was Maria Cruz. And that makes her ancestry... Spanish. From Spain. Which is where Christopher Columbus came from lol. xo
Thank youuuuu
Hah hah, you can't fully blame Sacheen. Christoforo Columbo was Portuguese who moved to Spain.
@@jasontreyes8078 are you dumb??? He was italian.....damn the American school system really is shitty
But my.question is: WHY ONLY NOW HER FAM SPEAKS UP UH? AFTER HER DEATH!? Weird to me! Why not BEFORE?
She was a member of what is usually called a "minority." "Hispanics" include Caucasians and many who are mixed between Caucasian and Native American as well as some black people who happen to have Spanish surnames.
Search for Alyssa London (Miss USA 2017). She is mostly white (Czech and Norwegian) but because she is 1/4 Tlingit, all of her media she shares focuses on her indigenous side.
So? YOU don't get to decide how one identifies.
I'm in my late 60s. Biracial wasn't a thing until relatively recently. According to the one drop rule if you had some negro ancestry (and folks around you knew), you were negro. I'm not sure if the concept was as stringent for other races, but the idea carried through.
It does seem strange that 'passing' has shifted from transitioning to be white to transitioning to be of other ethnicities, but people are strange or society is strange. Strange is all around.
The answer is because it helps people of privilege to claim victimhood or to fit in because they themselves have personal and emotional issues having to do with their identity. It has become a norm that if you are white or are half white that that part of your ancestry is inherently bad and therefore you should not be proud of it or claim it. You see racism become more of an acceptable behavior because of this. Now we have racist who Don't intend on being racist but they inevitably do because they don't want to be white. That's a form of internalized racism.
Bingo! It’s not “cool” to be white so it’s more fashionable to be a “minority.”
Why do people connect with their Native rather than white ancestry when they have both? Not too many years ago, just about every American wanted to be white. Merle Oberon had to allow the studios to dummy up a background in which her Polynesian ancestry vanished. For the past few decades, we've been very aware of traditional white privilege and the oppression by whites of others. Linking to the non-white part means obliterating the "oppressor" and "privileged" part of oneself. In the case of Native Americans, there is still a holdover from the "Noble Savage" myth. Some people see Native people through rose-colored lenses and believe everything was beautiful harmony before people from Italy, Spain, England, and other parts of Europe introduced all sorts of evils onto the hemisphere. Thus, people lose interest in the European parts of themselves and focus entirely on the Native part.
This also is misleading. It is the government (Dept Of The Interior) that defines who is native American because it entitles them to special healthcare benefits etc. She fits that definition - bar is set low because their "white" component often resulted from rape etc. Get a life.
Uh because of forced mixture. Do Europeans that were conquered by non-whites, claim their non-white ancestry? I personally never seen it.
@@tlamatini4617 Well, it's widely accepted that we all emerged from Africa so that's nice. I did development work with US tribes and saw 2 reasons outsiders wanted to join, or make claims: (1) for those benefits; (2) because they really really like the look of tribal life, generally very chummy and kind communities, like extended families. I also worked a lot in Africa, folks there think extremely fast, its pure fun.
@@peterquennellnyc Western experts went out of their way to debunk the Out of Africa theory.
@@tlamatini4617 They did? Who & when? Its been 100% mainstream science for many years.
“Why do people choose to identify with the minority part of them when they are half white” - for me, I’m half Irish/Spanish and half Mexican but I always choose to identify as completely Mexican. That is because I have zeroooo knowledge about Irish and Spanish culture! I don’t know a single thing about that culture! No food no dances no nothing! I did not grow up with any Irish or Spanish traditions. But on the other hand, I grew up with a bunch of Mexican traditions! I grew up in a Mexican ass family. That’s my story and I think that’s the case for most mixed people. It definitely was probably a similar case with Sacheen. No way she grew up with “German/Dutch” traditions. In Salinas, California? Lol bye. I will never say “I’m Irish/Spanish” because that would simply sound wrong to me cuz I have nooo idea what that even means. And I’m sure that’s why Sacheen never identified with “Dutch/German”.
She's actual hot ..I know that. She looks a good bit red..maybe more reddish than me..to me she looks kinda western like ..maybe Jicarilla..or Lipan
Mexican heritage, longer heritage probably Spanish. You can get "red" skin from makeup.
Yeah, she was pretty hot!!!
@wallyllaw . Maybe so.
Tremendo análisis, te felicito y gracias por compartir
That is because they can and they want to get attention and benefits for the time being and then go on their way its called doing it whwn its convenient simple
Thank you!!! 👏👏👏👏 some people in these comments are like "well Mexican is tEcHnIcAlLy indigenous." No! These people lie because it gives them a type of "edge."
@@then8ivepatriot yup it makes them seem interesting ie more enticing than just being what they are in this case plain old white ie exotic when in reality as soon as they are done they go back to their boring privileged lives not only that but afterwards they would go and spit on others who are not them so sad
@@then8ivepatriot margaret seltzer did it she was a fraud and same thing with Rachel dolezal
Are you there ?
Literally just woke up now
I believe Hypatia Lee considered herself Native American and she is only 1/4 Native American. This is also somewhat typical with people grabbing onto any Native link and calling themselves Native.
This is misleading. It is the government (Dept Of The Interior) that defines who is native American because it entitles them to special healthcare benefits etc. She fits that definition - bar is set low because their "white" component often resulted from rape etc. Get a life.
Mexicans are mostly native. There are more natives in Mexico than they are natives in Canada and USA combined (Mexico has the most Indigenous in all of the Americas) and the average “Mestizo” is over 55% or more Indigenous on average.
So you're negating their Native-ness based on the colonialist concept of blood quantum which was constructed to breed us into extinction? Good to hear.
She has the right to return!
@@tlamatini4617👏🏽👏🏽
Thts interesting!
Don’t just post a video, reading paragraphs off the internet. 🙄
Don't just leave annoying comments on videos that you didn't make 🙄
My great grandmother was born and raised on a cherokee reservation until she was 8 but I know that since my great grandmother the blood line has been thinned out. I couldn't tell you much more than that. My mom has her birth certificate and a paper with a little more info out of Oklahoma. I cant claim it as my heritage but its just information about her I'm also of irish-English (grandpa) descent . Irish on my dad's side and English and a itsy bity tiny bit cherokee on mom side .
I'm just satisfied to be from anywhere lol
Cherokee did not live on reservations dear ESPECIALLY in Oklahoma.
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Your thumbnail made me click. Lies always surface. Alas, Buffy Saint-Marie
The OG Rachel Dolezal and Sean King
@@then8ivepatriot - True story! Buffy hasn't just deceived, devastated & divided the Indigenous community. She's insulted Italians too!
@@truthseeker2000. How do you know this fir sure ? You think a birth certificate out of this society is all the proof you need ? Well other red people see her as red
I’m not excusing if she lied etc but she does have native blood…..her dad was mestizo as were his parents despite what the article you read said….Mexicans and other Latin Americans have native Indio/Indian blood….just because white Americans want to call those now in the USA ONLY native Americans doesn’t take away the fact……..your question about mixed white and Indian people only identifying with the native is crazy to me….do you tell this to the millions of black Americans who, as we know now, have white/Caucasian blood in them yet they identify as black? I bet you don’t! There are many Indians on reservations who are mixed white and you can tell just by looking at them who live off the govt, do you question them? FYI and idk how old you are BUT When you grew up mixed race in past times you had NO choice in this racist country but to identify with your minority side because nasty people always reminded you that you were that minority
First of all Missy, You wanna have an attitude? then I can have an attitude too 💅🏾 maybe my question is crazy to you because you're so thick in the Skull and emotional you can't have a adult conversation without getting your underwear in a twist. And I find your statement "there are many Indians on reservations who are mixed white and you can just tell by looking at them who live off the govt" JUST AS CRAZY to me 🙄🙄 do you TELL THAT TO THOSE NATIVES "hey you're mixed white and I can tell ur living off the govt by just looking at you"?! Hahaha bet not! 😅😅😅 girl get off the internet and go have a cupcake or something - you seem hangry
@@then8ivepatriot girl please, you’re a racist bigot, you bet your loose cornhole on what I said, you’re quick to talk about others but are mad when someone calls out the truth? FYI I sure have called out white “natives” living off the government, not paying a dime in taxes and getting drunk every day…..again, do you tell this to black FBA’s with white ancestors….? I think not big girl! Your video is FULL of attitude, you and your yellow tooth ass ask what we think then you attempt to pop off, no mam fat Pam! You can sit that wobbly ass down somewhere with that mess! You only like truths that are convenient to you, AND miss thing if you want to REALLY get read even more, I’ll let you know the “true natives of this country” were darker than you….. now hop off the net because you can’t handle facts and people not agreeing with you
Haha yeah lost my loose cornhole like you're losing yours in my comments right now calling me a bigot when you don't like people giving you a taste of how you approach people. When you learn how to comment on a video without being an emotional mess calling people names then maybe one day someone will actually take you seriously. when I have time, like you have a lot of... I'll give you the attention you're desperate for 💋 PS subscribe 😉
@@then8ivepatriot girl please, all that gibberish trying to change the narrative……I figured you wouldn’t answer, I KNOW you’d never talk to a black person like that….just like I answered your pathetic claim that I wouldn’t say that to the freeloaders…..stating facts you can’t grip obviously shook you, the channel is tired, like the person running it
@@then8ivepatriot girl please, all that gibberish trying to change the narrative……I figured you wouldn’t answer, I KNOW you’d never talk to a black person like that….just like I answered your pathetic claim that I wouldn’t say that to the freeloaders…..stating facts you can’t grip obviously shook you, the channel is tired, like the person running it
Sure is true , they like to take the minority side to seem more proud to be native .. I don’t know to me jus as long as there happy to have some sort native DNA , and respect it .. then everything should be fine .. good topic tho 👍🏼
Some sort? If I have some sort of white blood in me but “respect it,” is it okay for me to start identifying as white and speaking on behalf of white folks? 🤔
@@then8ivepatriot With that same logic.... Little feather couldn’t claim as being white and start speaking for the white community. Remember... she is only half white.
@@tlamatini4617actually 69% European. 31% Spanish, Mexican mixed
@@rozalilu1 Ok then. Open borders for Spain/Europe. Anyone is now welcome. Come on over Africans and Muslims. All the money, food, and housing is on us 😊.
@tlamatini4617 that was back in 1700. I didn't know my ancestors. And we didn't know the ancestors who crossed the border during the Mexican American war. Today's borders are another issue. We're in the 21st century, and I agree with you
It was determined she most certainly was Yaqui. She was Native. And no one retracted that story.
Watch Latino Slant Pauli for answers 12/3/22 regarding Littlefeather, my sister. My live interview
@@rozalilu1her sister is so full of hate and rage I wouldn’t believe everything she says ,especially what she says about birth certificates being forged that’s so outrageous and bogus I never heard of any birth certificates listing someone race smh
Birth certificates indicate the race of parents, place of birth, age, occupation , city, and county.
Sasheen Ribbon Company is her adopted name. Changed s to c. The entire name is a stage name. Not legal. Marie is not registered or any family documentation to either WMA or Yaqui. Those statements were made by Tribal who researched
@@rozalilu1 Not always. My father was listed as white, because it was "easier" and he could pass.
🤦♂️ A lot of Mexicans are native. People forget that. A lot of Yaquis were brought to Mexico mine for silver.
Total fraud and not Native American or Indigenous at all. All ancestors are listed as white or Mexican on legal documents going back to 1500 when they migrated from Spain. Do some research. Latest article is by Chickasaw journalist Anthony Perry March 6, 2024 Daily Beast
Judge not that ye be not judged! Only small minds dwell on such nonsense. It matters not whether she was a native person, but only matters how she lived her life. Her beliefs, thoughts and actions were actually more Native American than some full blood Indians. Further, Mexican people, especially Apache, had traces to Aztec, Mayan and other tribal affiliations. ~ High Eagle speaks, a true native elder.
Ok god 🙄 go to Whole Foods ya hippie if this topic doesn’t interest you.
Try reading the Daily Beast March 5, 2024 by Chickasaw journalist Anthony Perry for a reality check. Total lying fraud. Pretendian
Quanah Parker was a white Comanche chief... And Rosslyn Cruz aims she is Apache ... These sis had a real conflict of they parents inheritance so believe what ever... I known Rosslyn personally claiming she is Apache and both where attending the red road for native Alcoholic Anonymous... So yeah I meant them both so it seems as those the statement from a sister is envivest to they sisters fame and known to the world .. therefore is her Sister a lair to. Claim she is Apache in the Bay Area.... I see you a person discriminate and is prejudice to us real native of these country.. I'm Díné-navajo from Díné I'm not American....!!???
Complete fabricated lie and made up association
Picking the wrong battle. This woman humanized a dehumanized group with her brave speech. Be grateful.
Really? Lemme ask you this, are you also gonna tell black people to be grateful for Rachel Dolezal? Serious question. If yes, please film yourself telling black people they should be grateful for Rachel dolezal and send me the video so I can see what response you get!
I get it she lied about being Apache, however she did it with positive intentions.Don’t let this get the focus off what she stood for.
Tell that to the NA tribal organizations against Pretendians
I don’t follow this line of thinking. I don’t applaud people for lying because they “had positive intentions.” The ends don’t justify the means cuz you could make any ill formed argument based on that.
A lie is a lie, don't excuse it, she was never Native American, hence everything she stood for was a lie, she took the spot light off of actual Native Americans suffering on reservations.
but how do you know if she lied, have we seen any evidence? she speaks on the camera but where are the camera testimony of those who say she lies about herself?
Excuse an imposter? No.
She is native but just to Mexico.
I guess just how Europeans are "native" to Europe. Errbody is "native" I guess Lol
Her father was born in Oxnard, CA and Native to California not NA. His ancestors are from Mexico and then Spain. So dig Eons back to find a trace of indigenous DNA. The ggggma story
@then8ivepatriot . It's why when it comes down to it, I say I'm Miccosukee..one side of family is
@@rozalilu1 woaw... Did you check their information in the civil registry, did you do a thorough research in the church records? or you just read that somewhere random xD
@nayarom3522 that has already been done by the same Navajo journalist and activist Jacqueline Keeler. Including Lianna Constantino Cherokee of TAAF, David Cornsilk Cherokee, and a team of NA volunteers and outside researchers. Same group that exposed Liz Warren, Cruz, aka Littlefeather, Buffy, and a white woman, Heather Rae Bybee "Cherokee" producer taking jobs in IllumiNative. Google Jacqueline Keeler substack on Cruz, it gives the breakdown. Cruz's sister did a DNA with 70% European to include that 5% indigenous thread of most Mexicans. White Mountain Apache and Yaqui tribes made public statements that neither she nor her family dead or alive have any documentation, affiliation, or community. Zero, it doesn't exist. Sasheen Ribbon company is how she got her name. Just changed the spelling and it's Russian. You can buy it on eBay. President Native American Affirmative Image Committee?? Doesn't exist. Wearing a Plains buckskin dress instead of traditional Apache and hairstyle?? Central casting. There were a dozen red flags b4 she left the stage. An actress acting to the actors at the Oscar's to break into the business.
You yourself have European in you. You have facial hair in other videos whereas pure natives never did.
Let's say this is true...should I do what a lot of people are doing and IDENTIFY as European even tho I clearly don't look European and might be 1/200th European?? 😅😅
The answer is no lmao
@@then8ivepatriot that's exactly my point. Littlefeather doesn't look European and neither do a lot of other mixed natives. Which is why they identify as native. Thanks for proving my point
Um no. You clearly missed the point of the whole video because I hurt your little feefees.
If these people are MIXED with European, they never identify as WHITE. Again, let's assume I'm a small part of European... I'm not gonna claim the SMALL percentage of European (again in this made of scenario) that I am. I'm not gonna be going around saying "I'm European" because of a small percentage.
@@then8ivepatriot feefees 🤣🤣 your warrior ancestors are rolling in their graves
@@kuetlachtli619 and your ancestors can probably see the rolls under your sweater. So I guess we're both in a predicament 🤷♂
U deniying racism in america ?