Just weeks after the death of actress and activist Sacheen Littlefeather, her biological sisters have revealed that she fabricated her Native American ancestry
on his behalf and was blacklisted in Hollywood — her biological sisters have revealed that she fabricated her Native American ancestry.that, despite Littlefeather’s claims of being White Mountain Apache, their father was actually Mexican with no tribal identity; genealogical records also traced the Cruz family history to Mexico City with no known ties to the tribal nations there.
“It’s a lie,” Littlefeather’s sister Trudy Orlandi told author Jacqueline Keeler. “My father was who he was. His family came from Mexico. And my dad was born in Oxnard.”. It’s disgusting to the heritage of the tribal people. And it’s just … insulting to my parents.” Part of the sisters’ decision to come forward with Littlefeather’s fraudulence was to rightfully honor their father, who Littlefeather painted as an abusive drunk in interviews, as well as embellished the family’s poverty growing up; the sisters said it was in fact their father’s father who was drunk and abusive, and Littlefeather took their father’s harsh childhood and applied it to her own origin story.
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