Sacheen Littlefeather Refuses to Accept the Best Actor Oscar on Behalf of Marlon Brando
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- Sacheen Littlefeather refuses to accept the Best Actor Oscar on behalf of Marlon Brando for his performance in "The Godfather" at the 45th annual Academy Awards in 1973. Liv Ullmann and Roger Moore presented the award.
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Dude make link
Lol
Is this woman indigenous?
@carmenpatterson7010 Nope, it was some liberal white woman pretending to speak for Native Americans.
Her sister ended up spilling the beans and admitted her sister was a bit mental.
She's a known fraud and so was this moment at the Oscar's.
Why the Oscar's is sharing this clip knowing full well its just a loon is beyond me.
@@carmenpatterson7010 think she's like a quarter Mexican or something.
She did this with grace and respect no one should have boo'd her.
She was not at any point on her life a Native American.
😂 🤡
Who cares, survival of the fittest
@@daviebroy9174Least argumental RUclips commenter
Bro there’s no grace in pretending to be a different race for personal gain
Days before she passed she finally got an apology form them. (40 years later)
when did we get an apology from her for being a fraud her whole life?
She was a Fraud. Pretendian
She was Mexican . LoL
Her siblings said she straight up lied about being Native
@cranburrey Google Helene Hagan's letter to the Academy Museum. Debunks a lifetime achievement of lies. The sisters did tell the truth. She lied just like Buffy and her family stepped forward as well. Navajo journalist Jacqueline Keeler was contacted by the sister's for an interview and this same journalist interviewed the Sainte Marie family on the CBC documentary exposing the Buffy
Marie Cruz and Beverly Santa Maria owe the Tribal Nation a huge apology for identity theft, stealing their voice and opportunities
Every single word that came out of her mouth, was gilded with gold. Humble, respectful but completed the message in the most succinct way possible. ❤❤❤
That's called acting
Thought she wasnt even indigenous...
@@kyleorzech4she's not Native American. Fraud
@@kyleorzech4Who cares. The message was important.
@@florent9002 Don't you think by her not being native, the message of how natives are being treated by the film industry, is directly being done by her too? The hypocrisy to pose as native american, all while crying out the injustices done against them is wild to me. You don't see how that would render the speakers message kinda moot? The message may be important but coming from her it's hypocritical and shows signs of an untrustworthy source.
This was Maria Louise Cruz, famously not Native American (for anyone who wondered).
Yeah she's a Mexican which is just hilarious because it proves that the racial politics of today has existed for decades.
Why would she have a hispanic last name if not native to North America? Was she spanish?
@@tilda3316 She was born in California to an American mother and Mexican father who were both of European decent. She did not have any Native American (Indian American) ancestry. No one really knows why she pretended to be Native American.
@@greatbritishmale so, basically in 2023 she is racist and should be cancelled
Elizabeth warren before Elizabeth warren.
The fact that most people booed her just proved what she said
Edit: I really don't give a fuck about what you heard
True, but it turned out she’s not even Native American so the whole thing was messed up
@@tylerthompson1842 yeah
They were booing because they knew she wasn't actually native American.
They were booing because she was a liar and a thief but okay.
@@cariboubearmalachy1174they didn’t know, Clint Eastwood later on made a speech making fun of her message and they all laughed
The power in her voice to not sway from the message she was trying to convey was absolutely beautiful.
It's called acting. She is a fraud
She was literally a fraud lol.. She wasn't even native and her own family exposed her for it 👍
And that power in her voice let her lie about being native.
she was a complete fraud
Supposedly, Brando was at home LHAO.
She was born Maria Cruz and later changed it to Sacheen Littlefeather. She was actually Spanish-Mexican and posed as having a Native American heritage. She disowned being Mexican.
Well she wasn't far off. Being Mexican by default means you are indigenous. Mexicans are for the most part meztizo which means their genetic makeup is European and native
@@cheesyDELISH48 Mexicans and Apache are two entirely different cultures. They aren’t even the same race. Saying they are the same is an insult to their people and racist.
@sillyrabbit6203 yes, I am generalizing , not maliciously, but to say Mexico and the United States are both North American countries she is apparently part Mexican (predominantly Spanish?) so it wasn't a far stretch for her to call herself a Native American. I do not know what tribe she was claiming to be from.
@@cheesyDELISH48 She was just a liar. Her own sisters says she has no Native American heritage. She made it up. Putting on an outfit doesn’t change your race.
Can't blame her
Wow! She did that with the most genuine love and humility I’ve ever seen!
She was courageous and like every courageous person they're often faced with the important task to tell the truth.
Look it up ... turned out shes not even native american
@@Zero-ro3tnI am Spanish and if I moved in to Mexico and had a family there and nationalized there and had kids there with my Moroccan husband, they could be Mexican and we all speak Spanish... But not have a drop of Native American blood in them since we come from Europe/Africa.
You can be Mexican and descendent of Spaniards and/or Italians, British, Irish and maybe looked tanned like most of us Mediterraneans look but not be a Native American.
There are many chances if you are Mexican that you have some Native American blood but it is not mandatory.
@@Zero-ro3tn lol it was a fake ... thats not even her real name... this has been discussed everywhere...on joe rogans podcast pretty much everywhere
@@Zero-ro3tnYou should not embrace, but be embarrassed. 😂😂😂 She's obviously mocking Native Americans with that name she made up. Cringe.
Except for it recently came to light that this was all staged and she lied about her heritage.
Great job to her, and those who clapped to drown out the terrible rude noises some people were making.
Man you need to look her up shes nuts 🤣
@christoff_bozman her 1976 interview with Stewart she talks about being in a state mental hospital for 1yr. Self-identified paranoid schizoaffective
@@christoff_bozmanMan, you need to stop using derogatory word "nuts" or imply that immoral or extravagant behaviour is associated solely with mental illness🙄
@@yevgeniyaleshchenko849 wow you are a snowflake, I'm sure you think words are violence. Nuts doesn't mean mentally ill gtfo it. It can mean mentally ill, but this person is dillusional and narcasistic to think they can just get up there and mislead people.
@@yevgeniyaleshchenko849Marie Louise Cruz self identifed as paranoid schizophrenic bipolar throughout her life and interviews. Do some research. She was playing Indian to break into Hollywood
Sacheen Littlefeather said her father was of Apache and Yaqui ancestry and her mother was of European descent. Shortly after Littlefeather's death, Navajo writer and activist Jacqueline Keeler interviewed Littlefeather's two sisters, who said that their family is not Native American and that Littlefeather fabricated her Native American ancestry. They also said that their father, who was born in Oxnard, California, was of Spanish-Mexican descent and had no tribal ties. P.S. Her REAL name was Marie Louise Cruz, and she was born in Salinas, CA. in 1946.
WHAAAAAT
I wonder if he won this Oscar before or after he humiliated and violated Maria while filming the Bertolucci film in Paris??? Then he played saint with this publicity stunt. He was trash.
Why would I believe a marine on a subject as delicate as this lol
@@modyshapel3158 Look it up.....
@@modyshapel3158 And I copied this DIRECTLY from the internet....
She's not even native, her family is of Mexican decent. There was a whole exposé about her where her sister told everyone who she really was.
Related people though
Deadass I thought she was "La Popis" from El Chavo del 8.
Bro she makes me feel so relaxed when she’s speaking, I’ve never heard of this person before but I love the voice
I literally commented the same thing. Such a peaceful soft voice. The only thing that’s wrong with her speech… Is that it’s too short. Id love to hear her talk for hours. Maybe I could get some real sleep.
@@natalierozean5989She lied about being Native. That's a white woman and was exposed.
@@littleboots9800 she was accused. Weird how she was accused after her death when she couldn’t defend herself, which she seemed good at
@@natalierozean5989 fellow asmr viewer I take it? Lol
@@natalierozean5989it's called acting for personal gain. If you paid her enough she could have you sleeping for 50 yrs. That's how long she lied
This has to be a first during the oscars
Well it was at the time
But nowadays the Actor will Crusade themselves
Probably the only time...
She wasn’t even native lol
@@ichiban6004she was Apache. Very prominent and involved in our community.
@@riverbobbielove3722 bro she was Mexican 😂😂 look it up
Right on Ms Little feather with great courage!
She's right. She's so beautiful .
She was so young. That took a lot of courage.
Courage to steal indigenous identity as a FUCKING FRAUD?
Yeah a lot of courage to lie. She isn’t native or at least descended from the group she claimed
@@heavenlyree lol exacty. Literally my first thought when I saw this was that she’s got ZERO Native American features whatsoever 😂
@@SDSypher Exactly what I was thinking too before I learned her story. I have native family, though I’m not native in the slightest, and they look vastly different from her and look native and have native features even their kids. Except one on a different side of the family she’s pretty native but has pale skin, red hair, and blue eyes. She’s adorable but a black sheep native obviously took after her non native dad more lol
More like a lot of mental illness.
She is so fucking well spoken I wish I could talk like this
If you become a good enough liar maybe you too can spin bullshit so effortlessly
@@feedmeastraycat401 😐 you can't be serious
@@Nicholas-iw2xc literally look it up. She was a liar.
@@Nicholas-iw2xcShe did lie. She isn’t native
Good acting
She was not native. Her family has come forward and confirmed this. She doesn’t care about native Americans, she was just using them to get attention. This is what we call a publicity stunt, ladies and gents.
She wasn’t even Native American 🤣🤣
Neither are any of the white Europeans!
Honestly everyone who booed her should feel extremely ashamed
No babe. She deserves to be booed. Boo her now. She's a liar and a disgrace.
Well... come to find out she lied and is not even Native
@@dazem8that’s terrible on her behalf but that doesn’t negate the fact that people booed her as she spoke for marlon *brando’s disgust towards the treatment and portrayal of native/indigenous american
peoples.
@@dazem8rumored only circulated after her recent end of life.
She is native original who is very intune with Earth and scholarly impeccable communications.
@larkholland that's irrelevant. She spoke on behalf of Marlon Brando. He has chosen her to give his message. It doesn't matter how she was born but where her heart is
I remember this so well! Marlon Brando got a raft of sht about this.
It was a valiant effort to call attention to the refusal to acknowledge let alone counter the erasure and disdain of indigenous people
Thing is though.. she's not native American.
You're serious??? She's as Native as Elizabeth Fraud Warren.
John Wayne tried to physically assault her as she left the stage
@@Nio744 and? isn't what she said still true??
@@tink6225 proof?
And now we have Martin’s Killers.
Yall remember they had to stop people from getting up and assaulting her THAT is how upset they were about this speech
Including John Wayne
She was found out to be a fraud she isnt native ametican this is all a lie. Look it up
Unrelated but she’s so so beautiful her eyes are so expressive and sparkly
She wasn't actually native
@@reallyhappenings5597What is her real ethnicity?
@@user-hb4zz4gh5eshe was actually half. Her father was native
@user-hb4zz4gh5e Mexican American but more European since her father's ancestors are from Spain b4 marrying Mexicans
@itsnotthatserious9102 no her father is not Native. Mexican American with ancestors from Spain
The fact that some of the audience booed her proves her point 🤦🏻♀️
People like you are the reason why everything is censored these days, or canceled. Y’all are just too damn sensitive.
🤦🏻♂️
And Clint Eastwood laughed at her and made fun of her. 🤷♀️
Sucks that he got triggered by her words and how people wanted to silence her
@@EmeraldLavigne damn!
@@EmeraldLavigne laughed at her? didn't he try to punch her? or was that John Wayne
While I absolutely understand why Brando had her announce this rather than do it himself, it really should be on him to take the backlash that came from it, which he couldn’t because he wasn’t there.
Plus,she wasn't Native American
@@rozalilu1 WAIT HUH???
Read Daily Beast story by Chickasaw journalist Anthony Perry March 5, 2024. Navajo journalist Jacqueline Keeler substack San Francisco Chronicle October 2022. Marie Louise Cruz was exposed back in 2022. Where have you been? Mexican American Spanish and European. Total fraud
The fact that none of you realize that she was a fake native American (really mexican American) is sad. She was exposed by her own family after her death, i think everyone should do their own research. Her real name is Maria Louisa Cruz.
Mexicans are native American..do the research
Then John Wayne went up to physically drag her off the stage. It took 6 men to hold him back. The things he said were unmentionably vile.
Where's the evidence that he ever actually did this. Accounts say the physical part of the John Wayne controversy was made up.
@@wizzlet6821Google Farran Nehme investigative journalist article John Wayne and the six security guards. Debunks the whole lie
good she was a white poser
@@wizzlet6821I've seen it but I can't find it anymore. I remember her having a bloody nose but not fully understanding what happened because I was so young.
I do remember all the nasty stuff he said
@@allibababoounlikely as it didn't happen, I think maybe you heard about it and created the memory. I say this because even little feather has said herself that she heard Wayne was held back from assaulting her by 6 security but didn't see anything herself. I'm sure she'd remember if he actually assaulted her.
Bravo to her for her poise and gracious presentation.
She’s a liar tho
You're praising a liar and thief
@@tylerthompson1842you are a liar tho
Why is she a liar?
She wasnt native american. Just a poser...
The boos only prove her right😢!
Her: heartfelt speech
Hollywood: she should play pocahontas, I want her on my couch
Brando was ahead of his time. One of the greatest actors EVER too!
He was not ahead of his time, what he did should have been done by everyone at any time
@@appadogwenchana5978 I didn’t just mean about this ❤️
Please ! he was a coward .
Brando doesn’t give a damn about the poor treat moment of Native American. He just wanted to virtue signal because he knew he would win.
@@hurtlockerr8661explain ???
Her aura is insanely calm and beautiful. Almost contagious
She reminds me of Dorothy from wizard of Oz somehow
You don't know what her "aura" is🤦, also aura can't be "contagious"🙄... She makes such impression because of her VOICE, no need for pretence
@@yevgeniyaleshchenko849 calm down. Its not that serious
The speech was flawless with so much pain and anguish hidden behind those words...
Maybe the pain she was feeling came from guilt about lying that she was Apache
An actress acting to the actors at the Oscar's playing Indian for personal gain
She's so beautiful and doll-like. That's awesome on Brando for sharing his given platform for a good cause.
this was a beautiful move my Brando
In what way.... that hes to fat a lazy to come and say it himself.. he sends a Mexican woman.?
A beautiful move by Brando, a despicable move by whatever “sacheen”’s real name is. She’s not native. She’s white doing brown face. It was actually very embarrassing for Brando when it came to light.
She wasnt even Native American is the funniest part 💀
A quick Google search confirmed this. She claimed her father was native but her siblings denied him having any tribal ties.
This is important for the story but doesn't take away from her message imo
@dylant2323 no, her father wasn't. HER sister called her out to the public. Nothing native. Question is... why are you lying?? Keep the charade up?
@@isaacvanderbilt4505 i'm not sure you read their message at all
I wondered if anyone was going to mention this.
She was Mexican American. Technically she's part Native American.
An important moment. That said, am I the only one who can’t see this without then watching Norm Macdonald’s “Johnny Two Feathers” send up of this?
I always found it strange that Brando was always so committed to the American Indian cause, but never made a film that helped bring their story to a wider audience. That was, after all, where his exceptional talent was. It seems like a Dances With Wolves from Brando would have done more than this moment at the Oscars.
1973, actress Sacheen Littlefeather stepped on stage at the Oscars on behalf of Marlon Brando, identifying herself as a member of the Apache tribe and turning down his award because of the way Native Americans were treated in the U.S. Now, her two sisters are saying she lied - their family is not Native American.Oct 24, 2022
This is fact. She was a culture appropriator.
XD Yup, her sisters explained she's a self hating Mexican which iiiiis redface. Like she was speaking against. On "behalf" of Brando.
Another Pretendian
Truth
@@LayingInAMeadowwhether she actually was Native American or not she did good activism. That is the thing that should matter.
I guess that this was the greatest role she ever played.
Making history is a pretty damn big role. I agree. Bravo to her!
@@Hay_Bay She played her role as a liar very good.
@@Hay_Bay She lied about being native. Her father is Spanish and her mom was white
Are we going to ignore the fact that she wasn't native American? She was Mexican and white. Her siblings have been honest about it and find her cultural appropriation embarrassing.
Some Mexicans are Native American though so??? Being native to the Americas doesn’t stop at 2 fences, being native to the Americas stops in the continents of America, North and South
We're gonna ignore the fact you're wrong
The fact that she wasn't Native American at all and was a latina woman all along. Google her.
Brando was a great actor but an even better person who hated Hollywood and well you know 😂
The Kanye West of the 70'. 😊
He was a rapist and he molested his daughter Cheyenne. No wonder you like him.
He also raped actress Maria Schneider with a cube of butter to get a more authentic reaction on film. Nice guy that Marlon. The look on her face in Last Tango in Paris was a real one. Choose your heroes carefully.
But didn’t he sa the actress of the Last Tango in Paris during shooting the sex scene?
@@tet_talks8568 Yes he raped her with a Cube of butter. The director didn't want to tell the actress that that was going to happen so that they could get an authentic reaction from her.
It was later discovered that this lady is not native. In fact she was actually from salinas California. Born to a white mother & Spanish father.
Mexicans are indigenous. Spaniards mixed with native latin americans. She was wrong to take on an incorrect tribal identity, but she was native.
@@corv1d770spaniards mixed w indigenous is different than spanish mixed w caucasian… she isn’t mixed with indigenous, she’s mixed with caucasian
@@california_gayare Spaniards not white?
I was wondering how many of the "look how brave she was" comments I had to go through to find this...
@@california_gay was her father entirely 100% European white Spanish? Cause if he had any indigenous descent then she'd still be indigenous from his side, that was my original thought.
She wasn’t actually native, as confirmed by her sisters after her death.
Well Marlon Brando is probably the only artiste in the world to deny the prestigious award. It takes great guts and balls to do this
He should of done it himself instead of sending a fake indian. Brando was duped
She lied about who she was. Her heart might have been in the right place… but she took away from real voices. What can look like help can damage listening to authentic voices.
?
Interesting, how did she damage the authentic voices? Wasn’t she asked to refuse to accept the award on another’s behalf?
How exactly did this hurt indigenous natives in the film industry? Truly I’m curious what im missing.
@@Hay_Bayshe isn’t Native American. She is Mexican. Her family confirmed. She may have something deep in her heritage (most Mexicans do) but she wasn’t what she claimed to be directly. Does that not hurt authentic voices? As someone who is Dine, I wouldn’t want someone dressing up and pretending to be us, speaking for us. Like I said her heart is in the right place perhaps, but she lied.
@@tinaismamamayeah?
@@ChemesLamont I’m up to speed I just read you last comment
she wasn’t really native by the way, but her point still stands.
She’s not actually native American she was lying 😂
Everyone in here offended on her behalf, you’re being duped hard.
That was totally wrong of her but in this context it doesn't matter. Those words aren't even hers and there aren't wrong
Her message is strong. Understand that she was not of Native American descent, she was “pretending” according to her family. I don’t think everything is black and white tho. She was likely a good woman with good intentions, but having your entire career built on a lie is wrong.
Did she think people wouldn't find out? What the hell is wrong with people like this
@@tinaismamamaDo you need an explanation? She lied about being Native American. I hope that answers your effortless question.
Funny how directors want to say cut when somebody speaks the truth
Pretendian
Especially to a Pretendian
Except when it's a lie like in this case.
@@rozalilu1 I'm waiting for all the cultural appropriation advocates to protest men trying to be women and women trying to men. I definitely won't hold my breath though....
@daltsav lol..well, the Academy Museum has approved self-idenfication for that flop apology & finding out @ after the fact she's not Native. Look no further than Hollyweird
I met her once - 1979 or 80. She came into the art gallery I worked at, with an artist we represented, Robert Montenucci.
And you got to meet a real Pretendian.
@@rozalilu1 How so? Because I didn't get that vibe at all from her. She was quiet and pleasant to talk to. Although that may have been in contrast to her arrogant, self-centered companion. But, with all the years I've spent in the visual & performing arts worlds, I am no stranger to the pretentious & superficial. I can usually tell.
As for her public speech, I have to agree. Native Americans, at that time, were underrepresented in Hollywood. There was Chief Dan George, Graham Greene, & Lou Diamond Phillips to represent the entire Nation.
The sad part is that she wasn’t even Native American. Her family came forward after her death, stating that she fabricated being Native American because it was more honorable. Her family was of Mexican ancestry.
The sad part about this whole thing is that she wasn’t even a native American. She was faking the identity. Today we celebrate this moment as a wonderful, well spoken, well said and speech about the treatment of the most oppressed minority group in the United States. And quite frankly, it does deserve that particular round of applause. But it’s sad that she was faking it and lying about her own identity for years. I don’t think Marlon Brando knew. I think if he did, he definitely would not have asked her. I think that she probably wasn’t a horrible person deep down and this is one of those things that was, a good action with good motivation coming from a questionable source. I just wish that either she hadn’t faked her identity and this particular historical honor would have gone to somebody who really is native, American, or that she had been honest with him, and hadn’t faked her identity from the beginning, and still given this wonderful speech. otherwise she was right and the booing proved it.
I don't think they were booing her personally, it's the pretentiousness of the situation set up by Marlon. It's a movie award. Why not use his money he made from portraying an Italian gangster to make a commercial or movie portraying this message? It would get more across than a woman pretending to be native American to send a message at an award show. It's really on Marlon, not her.
Factsss! 💯
OMG RIGHT!! All these virtue signalers 😂😂😂😂
Exactly but u see this morons in the comment WTF she's not even native!!!!
I remember this!!!
She lied about being native, and she didn't deserve any awards she was given because of the fact that she isnt at all native American not even a little bit, but her message was still very important especially for this time, but is still very important. I just wish she didn't lie
👍
@@haylaparker-fieldsdo a little research,kinda like buffy 😂😊
She was native just not apache or any other north american tribe she was a mestiza and the author who denied her to be native that Keeler woman is a known pathological liar
She wasn't even there to receive an award. She was there as a representative for Marlon Brando.
Do you just spew garbage all over the comments without even listening to whats said.
Wounded knee was a recent massacre by the FBI on Indians protesting the original massacre of wounded knee.
Even I know that and I'm an Aussie on the other side of the world.
The absolute ignorance & stupidity of your generation is terrifying.
She was Native wtf are you on
She should've kept the Oscar for her realistic portrayal of an American Indian.
Stereotype
People praising this woman like she didnt lie about being native American and stole those opportunities from actual natives.
U can't see California without marlon's brandon eyes
@@nevadagrace3514Google Helene Hagan's letter to the Academy Museum. Debunks a lifetime achievement of lies. Click on the yellow bar
@@nevadagrace3514the message is all that matters
🤘🏼
Love that song
YOU. CANT. SEE. CALI. FORNIA. WITHOUT. MARLON. BRAN. DOS. EYES.
For those that don’t know, it was later revealed by her sister that she is not Native American whatsoever.
It was after her death that she was accused.
Does it change the fact that Natives are treated badly?
@@LoraOssetian No but the overly patriotic Americans forget every kind of critical thinking about their own history as soon as someone waves a US flag
Doesn't make the message any less real or relevant
She wasn’t even native, she was white.
It's sad that this is one time respect of our Indigenous. People. I'm only 80 % but I feel the pain an suffering
Much love to all❤.
So great of Marlon
😂
Marlon was a coward and a rapist but you do you.
@@Versul1no😅
@@sathira_anuk5179 no to what coward or rapist
@@TexasToastyToast yep
I just read that she had no Native American blood and was of Spanish and Mexican descent per her living relatives.
Mexicans are Native Americans.
Well mexicans has native blood... So its one of those yea but also yea
mexicans are native and part of the americas
Your correct she wasn’t native whatsoever and her name was made up. If I remember correctly she said her name was “Little Feather”, she was found out shortly after
@@00Iza00she claimed heritage that wasn't here though her own family told the truth she's not got any native blood they can find going back to the early 1800's and the tribe she claimed has no records of her or any relative living or dead
This was a sad and disgusting time in Academy history especially from known actors and their outburst comments while she was speaking. Alot more has been revealed years later about Sacheen Littlefeather's actual biological race which Marlon Brando knew then.
Marie Louise Cruz aka Sacheen Littlefeather. Sacheen is a Russian name from Sasheen Ribbon Company she just changed the spelling. She wore a borrowed Plains buckskin dress instead of traditional Apache and hairstyle. Central casting. Brando was duped. 1 yr later, he cut off all communication. She's Mexican American European
She was not indigenous, she was Hispanic and ashamed of that fact for no reason and in her shame co-opted an ethnicity that had no part in her heritage
Her real name was Maria Louise Cruz, she made up the native name! She was schizophrenic, she needed help.
Why would that matter though? Her words spoke truth.
she did lie, which sucks, but her words were still important, and also, lets not use someones (supposed) mental illness to discredit them.
and the real cruel irony to her story is that she still identifies as Apache, after her two sisters are saying she lied - their family is not Native American.
The truth about her ancestry came out after she died, so it's not quite accurate to say "she still identifies" as such even after the truth. She still lied, though. I find it strange because her father was of Spanish-Mexican, so there is a possibility that she had indigenous ancestry from Mexico. I guess that didn't tell as good of a story for her purposes.
Goodness, she’s even slightly faking a native accent (or the way it would be portrayed on films) a fake, fake Navajo accent 🙄
People this is what happens when you monetize being a victim….
@@myguykaikai9215 no one came from the ground… no one is native. We all came from Africa and push ourselves to find better resources. It’s natural law 🙄
@@lw6981 you have no idea what you are talking about.
1. There is only one species of human.
2. We all have neanderthal genetics, but among the highest is of darker complexion such as Philippino.
3. Caucasians are among the lowest subgroup in population globally. You’re obviously from America, because Americans gov lies about everything with race. I’d strongly recommend you venture out if you want to see the truth.
I'm not even indigenous and I'm over here looking at this woman like... "Hold on...something's not right.."
Wow! The respectful, gentle, humble delivery of an indigenous representative, (albeit on behalf of an actor) is unlike anything I’ve seen or heard in my lifetime. Our newly called ‘First Nation’ people, an appropriated identification, (probably from Canada), give us nothing but resentful, blaming, hateful words and behaviour. While teaching us nothing. Only YOU can make the changes you want to see in your life. Imagine if we all truly met with understanding and love? Marlon Brando’s POV was way before his time. 🌹❤️
Your lost. She was exposed by her sisters and Native American activists for being a fraud last year. Where have you been?
She didn't deserve any apology. HE did but NOT her. She should have been the one apologizing to everyone for lying. Smh why do people lie about where they come from? It's so annoying.
Maybe she was lied to about her nationality. I was adopted and my parents were told I was Swedish, English and Irish. It turns out the adoption agency got it wrong. At 32 yrs old I found out I was 48% Irish, 49% German and a tiny bit Jewish & Italian. I never lied about my heritage, I was lied to until I found the truth.
Fun Fact: Her real name is Maria Louise Cruz, she was born and raised in California.
She was of Mexican descent and had no tribal ties, nor related to any Native American tribes.
You might find the fact of who "Mexicans" are fun as well...
Mexicans are Native American. Most of us are partially related to indigenous roots. I myself am part Raramuri, which is considered Native American because Mexico is part of North America. Native American doesn’t just extend to United States of America especially since The United States didn’t even exist when indigenous people roamed all the land from North America to South America. Also, most Mexico was stolen by the USA (55%) which is now modern day southwestern United States.
Fun fact: the boarder wasn’t always there but you know who was? The natives who are also Mexican and American natives way before but wayyyyy before the boarder cross them but even is she had no connection whatsoever it doesn’t matter because when you fight for other peoples rights,you are also fighting for your own.
@@GenericHomovery extremely WELL SAID!!
BRAVO!!
@@matjbvery extremely
WELL SAID!!
🎶TELL IT LIKE IT IS🎶
She was not a native american. She was born Maria Louise Cruz, and although her father was of Mexican descent, he had absolutely no tribal ties dating back to at least the early-to-mid 1800s. Some basic research shows that some of Cruz's distant family *may* have been born in the Pima tribal region of Mexico, but actual tribal members would have been a *minority* at the time. Neither her nor her parents were enrolled members of the Yaqui tribe which she claimed to be a part of.
She was severely mentally ill and spent quite a while in a mental institution. She simply pretended to be a native american and preyed upon people who, during the time period, just did not know any better.
It is sad that most people will not see this. You are correct in your information about her. She was appropriating like Rachel Dolezal.
@@browneyedgirl4637 Yes! Exactly like Dolezal! People were outraged with her, but I'm not sure why Cruz isn't being met with the same fury. Seems like a double standard to me.. 🤷♂️
Like Buffy St Marie, smh
@@ActOutYourLife Except Buffy has talent 🤐😂😂
Brando was not a good person either. IMO it was an attempt at notoriety on both their parts.
Wild that such eloquent and inpactful words came from someone who was a complete and total fraud
An actress acting for the actors at the Oscar's. Can't get any better than that
I think it would have been better if he attended himself and I have recently read that she wasn’t Native American. I could be wrong but I 100% agree with the statement
Who cares if she was not native American. She delivered a message on their behalf.
Because she was exploiting their identity.
Wym? Was Lightfeather like a stage name? Because I have aunties and cousins with that last name who are Native.
still it doesn't justify fabricating a false identity
NA have a huge problem with identity fraud. It's there voice not from central casting. She stealing the right of NA to have their own Icons. She was just an actress trying to get ahead.
@@ravenhoule948Littlefeather. And yes she either stole it or made it up. Just like the name Sacheen. It's from Sasheen Ribbon Company she just changed the spelling
Brave, well-said ! Action speaks louder than words. Action by Marlon Brando ! ❤
But she was a fake
@@Versul1 she was 😂😂
@@Versul1Google Helene Hagan's letter to the Academy Museum. Debunks a lifetime achievement of lies. Click on the yellow bar 😊
@@BeusheuGoogle Helene Hagan's letter to the Academy Museum. Debunks a lifetime achievement of lies. Click on the yellow bar
You know she lied right?
And now I understand that bit Norm Macdonald did at that comedy awards ceremony
I can't believe people booed like she was literally just the messenger
I'm surprised that the academy continue to post this even after it was revealed that she was a fake, her family even wanted her tribute removed from the Oscars museum
Careers and reputations were put on the line with this phony apology. It was a blowback when she was exposed as a fraud and the exhibit was in place. They panicked for 2 wks then made a statement. "We recognize self-idenfication." So, if you wanna go to Hollywood and self identify as Commanche when your full blooded Irish go for it. Or, they could have taken the honorable way of truth and respect to her family and all Native Americans and admitted they were duped. By a schizophrenic no less. However, they choose to lie and push a fraud. No moral compass.
Because it's still a piece of history, and it was and is still a topic of controversy. Even if she was a fake, the people in the audience did not know that, and still reacted the way they did to her message.
@@mkat8505 don't get me wrong, I agree that the audience didn't respond well when they heard what she had to say. But this situation opened a can worms for me. I won't dwell on it too much as I don't want to start a debate, let alone an argument on it, but I do have mixed feelings about the event itself
The Academy Museum recently took out her Native description/activism of Apache & Yaqui. She's Mexican American but more European. Due to all of the pushback, they changed the wording. Brando asked Sacheen Littlefeather to refuse his award. Then Brando's reasons for his protest since it was never hers. So it's basically a pic of her in a Plains buckskin dress instead of traditional Apache from central casting. An actress playing Indian activist to actors at the Oscar's. Brando was duped. However, President/Director Jacqueline stewart has zero fact-checking skills. They forgot to add Marie Cruz aka Sacheen Littlefeather and drop National Native American Affirmative Image Committee. It doesn't exist. She lied and made it up. Jacqueline Stewart should resign.
@@rozalilu1that's exactly how I feel about the situation, even though Sacheen/Maria had good intentions and her message was an important one, it was still wrong of her to lie and fake her identity. Unfortunately, after the ceremony, the lies didn't stop. She made up stories about her family and her upbringing and the accusations of John Wayne trying to attack her have been disputed. Were they attempts to make people feel sorry for her? Probably, who knows? It's one thing to be an activist, it's another thing to play the victim. If anything, she was misrepresenting Native Americans just as much as Hollywood was.
In my mind, and I think in a lot of people's minds, she took advantage of the situation to make a name for herself and become somebody. If anyone deserves an Oscar for best actor/actress, it's her. She had everybody at the Oscars fooled, including Marlon Brando. He said the purpose of the protest was to give Native Americans a voice during the occupations at Wounded Knee. It takes more than a traditional outfit to prove your nationality. Anybody could've done what she did, with or without traditional dress.
Finally, even though Brando didn't care about winning awards, which I guess is a good attitude to have since that's not all being an actor is about, its still sad to think that he rejected an Oscar he genuinely deserved, not to mention, his last Oscar win ever. Not even the best actors win every single award that exists. He would've been turning in his grave when he learnt the truth. Makes me wonder whether or not he would've done the Oscars differently had he known. When Dick Cavett asked, he said no, but now that we know the truth, he probably would have. Who knows?
But I guess what really baffles me is why did her family wait for so long to break their silence and tell the truth? 50 years is a long time. Then again, they said she created a fantasy for herself and they wanted to respect that, but also in saying that, she was putting her family to shame with all the lies she told.
I know I said I wouldn't go into detail about how I felt because it could cause a debate but you basically summed it up and I couldn't agree with you more. It's rather unfortunate and the more I think about it, the sadder I find it. Talk about a rip-off.
People knew we couldn't go on the way we were. 40 years later. Certain American still appose the truth. When I was a child, this was being WOKE❤
She wasn't even native.. Her own family exposed her as a fraud years after this speech 👍
She was Latina. Her sister called her out publicly. 😂
and now LILY GODSTONE IS ABOUT TO WIN IT......... EVERYONE CELEBRATE 🎊
That's another questionable one.
Marlon was a REAL and awesome human with a HEART! ❤❤❤❤
Bur never apologized the butter scene to Maria Schneider in movie Last tango in Paris?
@@katrisaarimaki7983 apologize for a scene in a movie?! Make it make sense.
@@benjeberkeley9660 What do you think she meant by "reruns" dumbass?
This woman was a Pretendian (see research done on her family history by Jacqueline Keeler) of Mexican, not Native American descent.
Many Mexicans are Native American specifically called mestizo
Exactly, her own sisters came out and said this! Yes a lot of Mexicans are of Native American origin too but her own biological sisters said they did not know of any Native American DNA in their family. They came out and said she lied and was a fraud this whole time.
it doesn't devalue the point she is trying to make though. she was giving them a voice.
She has such a soft relaxing voice. I feel warm and sleepy when she speaks. Too bad her speech wasn’t longer. Maybe I could sleeping like a normal human
🎉Marlon Brando 🎉 get my respect forever, just for this one preformance where he is not even present🎉
Marlon was a rapist. Anything to get an authentic looking scene.
Such a tragedy what happened to such a beautiful culture.
The fact that she apologises for speaking up for her own people. I hate that she felt she had to do that
She's not Native American and it was Brando's protest and speech not hers
I love how Norm Mcdonald did a parody of this dumb lady
She was in costume and she wasnt even an Indian to boot.
Oop.
she's apache and white..
@@CvntIza
No…Spanish and white.
From Spain.
Her parents were European, with ZERO ties to any native descendants.
She lied.
Plain and simple.
Ok but she wasn’t even %1 Native American. If anyone is appropriating anything it’s her
Remember that time Norm MacDonald did this? 😄 Miss that guy
Wow! What a cool and kind gesture by Marlon Brando and what an important message delivered so well
Sasheen Littlefeather has those Rachel Dolezal vibes goin on.
After her death, it was revealed that she wasn't actually native Americen
@@christopherporter2459Google Helene Hagan's letter to the Academy Museum and READ it. Debunks a lifetime achievement of lies. Click on the yellow bar
@@christopherporter2459yup
That explains it. Spidey sense was going off
@@christopherporter2459 exactly. Just like Rachel Dolezal was outed for not actually being African American.
the only man who could play the wild one!
She was not native American.
Her name was Maria Cruz
Yeah Marlon smashed that.
Edit: “CALL ME POCAHOTASS, Marlon!