Sacheen Littlefeather (Apache and Yaqui from Arizona) has formally accepted an apology from the Academy of Movement Image Arts & Sciences for her mistreatment on the 1973 Oscars.
You may bear in mind, the actress (now activist) had taken to the stage on the occasion on behalf of Marlon Brando who had received the Greatest Actor award, and declined it at his request. She was booed off the rostrum and endured years of discrimination and backlash after she peacefully highlighted the mistreatment of Native Individuals within the leisure business in addition to “The Wounded Knee standoff” between regulation enforcement and the American Indian Motion.
“[Marlon Brando] very regretfully can’t settle for this very beneficiant award,” she mentioned to the viewers on the time. “And the explanations for this being the remedy of American Indians at this time by the movie business, excuse me, and on tv in film reruns, and likewise with latest happenings at Wounded Knee.”
Over the weekend, the Academy hosted an occasion in her honour after issuing a public apology to Littlefeather final month.
“I’m right here accepting this apology,” the now 75-year-old Littlefeather mentioned on stage.
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“Not just for me alone, however as acknowledgment, understanding that it was not just for me however for all of our nations that additionally want to listen to and deserve this apology tonight.”
She took a while to replicate on the second which passed off practically 50 years in the past earlier than ending her speech with some highly effective phrase: “Please, once I’m gone, at all times be reminded that everytime you stand in your reality, you’ll be retaining my voice and the voices of our nations and our folks alive. I stay Sacheen Littlefeather. Thanks.”
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