With the Oscars coming up on Sunday, we end our week with a quick look at one of the Awards' most controversial moments.
Marlon Brando won the Best Actor Oscar in 1973 for "The Godfather" but refused to accept it. In his place, Sacheen Littlefeather spoke out on the mistreatment of Native Americans in film and entertainment:
Littlefeather was born as Maria Cruz in 1947 and some sources have said that she is of Mexican descent. Her official website denies Roger Ebert's reported categorizing of her as a "Mexican actress" and goes on to say that she's partly descendant of "the White Mountain Apache and Yaqui tribes of Arizona".
Online Sources- Guardian UK, Spike, sacheenlittlefeather.net
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as a signifying event, it worked.
I have to say it but the Oscars are getting bad and bad. Because they don't know how to renovate the system.
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