She sat down with us in April, nearly 50 years after the night she turned down Marlon Brando's Best Actor Oscar — which is still among the most memorable and contentious in Academy Awards history.
here was a moment during our interview earlier this year with Sacheen Littlefeather that had many of us, including Sacheen, in tears.Listen: Sacheen Littlefeather talks at length about her life and what happened at the Oscars in 1973and Jacqueline Stewart, the museum’s president, asked Sacheen about what brought her to organizing and activism in the 60s. Her answer came out stilted but with conviction. She described the pain of learning that Martin Luther King, Jr. had been assassinated.
That night at the Academy Awards she'd gone on stage on Brando's behalf. He'd prepared a long speech about injustices to indigenous people both by Hollywood and, at that exact moment in time, in Wounded Knee, South Dakota. I’m the senior producer on the podcast, and listening back to her words in 1973 — brief, polite, apologetic but firm, it’s almost hard to imagine why it was so divisive.She sat down with us in April, nearly 50 years after that night — which is still among the most memorable and contentious in Oscar history. We spent an hour and half with her, knowing her story was critical to a podcast aimed at revisiting pivotal moments for the Academy Awards.
“I love it when my sense of humor kicks in. You know, laughter is medicine," she told us."So that's how native people have always recuperated from all of our pain, from all of the genocide. I think throughout all the hurt of the centuries, the pain, what has got us through is our great sense of humor.”
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