Three weeks following the death of Sacheen Littlefeather, the activist who famously accepted Marlon Brando’s Oscar for “The Godfather” at the 1973 Academy Awards, a new column all…
, the activist who famously accepted Marlon Brando’s Oscar for “The Godfather” at the 1973 Academy Awards, a new column alleges that Littlefeather had been posing as a Native American through her life., the piece features quotes from Littlefeather’s sisters, Rosalind Cruz and Trudy Orlandi, who called the activist’s identity as a Native American a “lie.”
Littlefeather was born in Salinas, Ariz. under the name Maria Louise Cruz to parents Manuel Ybarra Cruz and Gertrude Barnitz. The columnist’s review of her father’s ancestry, where Littlefeather claimed Native heritage, found no ties to Native American nations in the U.S. Littlefeather’s heritage allegedly traced to territories that are now part of Mexico.
“It is a fraud,” Cruz said. “It’s disgusting to the heritage of the tribal people. And it’s just… insulting to my parents.”
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