‘Liar’ Sacheen Littlefeather’s sisters: Leave her out of Oscars’ In Memoriam
nypost.comWill Smith notwithstanding — Sacheen Littlefeather is virtually assured a spot in the In Memoriam segment when the show airs Sunday, March 12, on ABC.But her family would rather the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences just forgot about the late actress.Publicly recognizing her will continue the “biggest blunder in the history of the Oscars,” Littlefeather’s sister Rosalind Cruz told The Post Monday.“They will [include her] because they need to keep covering up for themselves,” Cruz, 65 said of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. “They’re endorsing a Pretendian and keep pushing the lie and slander of our family and they don’t care.”Littlefeather, who died of breast cancer at 75 in October, established herself in Oscars lore in 1973 when she declined Marlon Brando’s Best Actor Oscar on his behalf.
The “Godfather” actor selected Littlefeather to do so in protest of Hollywood’s mistreatment of Native Americans in film. “I’m Apache and I am president of the National Native American Affirmative Image Committee,” she introduced herself in the speech.But just weeks after her death, Littlefeather’s sisters, Cruz and Trudy Orlandi, blasted the activist as an “ethnic fraud” who concocted her heritage to get ahead in Hollywood.Cruz said she fully expects the award show to honor her late sister despite purported DNA evidence debunking Littlefeather’s “lie” to 85 million Oscars viewers by claiming to Apache.“What’s the Academy going to go?
Are they going to continue trying to save face and brush this all underneath the rug?” Cruz continued. “It wouldn’t surprise me one bit.“I don’t think she should be mentioned at all – period.
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