Native American accepts apology from Oscars after abuse in 1973
msn.comThe actress and activist Sacheen Littlefeather has accepted an apology from the Oscars almost 50 years after she was booed off stage. In 1973 she took to the stage in a traditional buckskin dress to turn down an Oscar on behalf of Marlon Brando and then made a speech about the film industry's mistreatment of Native Americans.
A minute in to her speech she was booed off the stage and for decades was boycotted by the film industry. However, earlier this year the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences apologised to Littlefeather in a letter and on Saturday at an event in her honour in Los Angeles the 75-year-old was applauded as she took to the stage. "Well, I made it.
It took 50 years," she said at the event, entitled "An evening with Sacheen Littlefeather" and which featured Native American performances.
In 1973 Littlefeather had been asked to go to the Oscars by her friend Marlon Brando who had won the Best Actor award for playing Vito Corleone in The Godfather.
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