Native actress and activist Sacheen Littlefeather has died at age 75. At the 1973 Oscars, she declined Marlon Brando's award for him — taking the stage to discuss Hollywood's treatment and portrayal of Natives.
"People were making money off of that racism of the Hollywood Indian. Of course, they're going to boo. They don't want their evening interrupted."
Littlefeather said she was escorted offstage at the Oscars by a team of security guards. She said that for years Hollywood boycotted her, calling it being red listed. Earlier this year and nearly 50 years later, the academy officially apologized to Littlefeather for the abuse she subsequently endured because of her Oscars appearance. In a June letter from former academy President David Rubin, the academy the"unwarranted and unjustified" abuse she endured.The Los Angeles."I was distressed that people should have booed and whistled and stomped, even though perhaps it was directed at myself," he told then-talk show host Dick Cavett.
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