Littlefeather recalls an “incensed” John Wayne having to be restrained from assaulting her and being threatened with arrest if she read the long speech Brando sent with her.
“When Sacheen stepped in front of the camera, it was one of the first times Americans heard directly from an indigenous person… that we weren’t just relegated to Westerns, that we weren’t just relegated to the past…it was a huge step forward,” he said.At the time, it was commonplace for white actors to play Native Americans in film and on TV, and for many of those portrayals to be riddled with stereotypes of indigenous people as savages, relics of an earlier America.
While Brando would go on to movies such as “Apocalypse Now,” Littlefeather said she found herself “red listed,” as she put it, unable to find much work as an actress in Hollywood, and cruelly dragged by the media.acceptance speech, Littlefeather reflected back to a moment some say was the first time politics were injected into an Academy Awards ceremony .If you watch it now, it all seems so… polite.
“It was uplifting,” for a moment, said Suzan Shown Harjo, a Native rights activist and president of the Meanwhile, white performers routinely played Native Americans in films, while Native American actors couldn’t find work. The friendship between the two “phone buddies” evolved to Littlefeather occasionally flying to Southern California to be a houseguest with Brando and his family. He may have been one of the most recognizable faces on the planet, but Littlefeather said the two bonded over their activism. “I really wasn’t interested in him as an actor,” she said. “I was interested in him as a fellow activist.
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