Sacheen Littlefeather spoke at the 45th Academy Awards ceremony. Her appearance was on behalf of which actor?

At least she lived to hear the apology. (and) There's no doubt the motion picture academy treated Native Americans and other indigenous peoples badly!

SusieQ, WHY? She didn’t lie! She didn’t shout, her demeanor was respectful. Watch it.

I remember that. Good Oscar moment.

HRH, no she didn’t, her father was apache and thus she had Native American (apache) heritage

joey, When you know better, you do better.

I never understand this Brando made a number of westerns in his day and I'm sure at time native Americans were portrayed badly

I remember that as if I were seeing it live right now. What a shame that she had to go to such extreme lengths to get her message heard by most of America.

American treatment of the native Indians has been shocking. Even in the UK we were taught that Indians were bad and that was the theme you in all the westerns and at schol

Player #62752956, Geronimo's people lived in the Mexican area before it was called Mexico. North, Central & South America is Turtle Island of Aborigines.

Geordie4Life, Littlefeather repeatedly claimed that her father had White Mountain Apache and Yaqui ancestry. However, her sisters, as well as researchers who have looked into the claim, confirm that he was of Spanish-Mexican ancestry with no known ancestors who had a tribal identity in Mexico, and he had no connection to the Yaqui or White Mountain Apache tribes of Arizona.

Player #62752956, have you look at a Mexican?