The Oscars organization refuses to answer questions about the ethnic fraud allegations against Sacheen Littlefeather, the late Bay Area activist it celebrated as a Native American icon in September…
to stand on the Oscars stage. The Academy reaped positive PR when it also apologized to the former actor for the boos she faced during her speech and the discrimination she says she endured in Hollywood years after.
To Littlefeather’s sisters, she was an attention-seeking fabulist. In interviews over the years, including in a three-hour “oral history” with Academy Museum president Jacqueline Stewart, the former Marin County resident told stories about herself that either can’t be verified or are refuted by other people and historical records. Orlandi and Cruz take particular issue with how Littlefeather described an impoverished childhood.
The organizers of Littlefeather’s celebration — Stewart, a University of Chicago film historian and popular host for Turner Classic Movies, and film producers Bird Runningwater and Heather Rae, members of the Academy’s Indigenous Alliance — also did not respond to email requests for comment. “I believe the real question for the Academy Museum is, how would they have reacted if a performer had falsified their Black American heritage? Surely the NAACP would have put enormous pressure on them to cancel any exhibit honoring the artist,” said historian Angela Aleiss, the co-author of “Hollywood’s Native Americans.” Aleiss is known as the writer who exposed the Iron Eyes Cody scandal in the 1990s.
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