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Sacheen Littlefeather was heckled on the Oscars stage for declining Marlon Brandos award on his behalf in protest at the film industrys treatment of Native Americans

Nearly 50 years after she was booed off the Oscars stage for declining Marlon Brando’s award on his behalf, in protest at the film industry’s treatment of Native Americans, Sacheen Littlefeather has received an apology from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the group said on Monday. Littlefeather, who is Apache and Yaqui, was heckled at the 1973 Academy Awards while explaining at his behest why an absent Brando could not accept his best actor Oscar for The Godfather. She later...

Nearly 50 years after Sacheen Littlefeather stood on the Academy Awards stage on behalf of Marlon Brando to speak about the depiction of Indigenous people in Hollywood films, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences apologized to her for the abuse she endured.

Nearly 50 years after she was booed off the Oscars stage for declining Marlon Brando’s award on his behalf in protest at the film industry’s treatment of Native Americans, Sacheen Littlefeather has received an apology from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the group said Monday.

Some people claim the devil himself visited the tiny town of Villisca, Iowa, that summer night in 1912, when 8 people were killed by an ax murderer. Others say he already lived among them. After more than a century of idle gossip and speculation, some amateur sleuths might have just figured it out.

"I never thought Id live to see the day," the Native American actor and activist said of the apology.

Some people claim the devil himself visited the tiny town of Villisca, Iowa, that summer night in 1912, when 8 people were killed by an ax murderer. Others say he already lived among them. After more than a century of idle gossip and speculation, some amateur sleuths might have just figured it out.

He made it big in Hollywood with box-office hits, but he’s best remembered for a harrowing, Oscar-nominated German film set inside a U-boat in World War II.

Fifty years later, the Academy formally apologizes for its treatment of Sacheen Littlefeather, who declined the 1973 Best Actor Oscar given to Marlon Brando on stage. She appeared on Brando's behalf, who was boycotting the Academy Awards over Hollywood's mistreatment of Native Americans at the time. The post Oscars Officially Apologize to Sacheen Littlefeather, 50 Years Later appeared first on The Latest Hip-Hop News, Music and Media | Hip-Hop Wired.

Some people claim the devil himself visited the tiny town of Villisca, Iowa, that summer night in 1912, when 8 people were killed by an ax murderer. Others say he already lived among them. After more than a century of idle gossip and speculation, some amateur sleuths might have just figured it out.