https://www.breitbart.com/ente...ing-native-american/

This year, Hollywood and the news media took a knee for Sacheen Littlefeather.

Woke news outlets including NPR, the New York Times, and Variety ran glowing articles identifying her as a Native American who was unjustly ridiculed and shunned by the industry when she infamously rejected Marlon Brando’s Oscar for The Godfather in 1973. It culminated in August when the Academy publicly apologized to her.

There was just one problem. According to her biological sisters, Sacheen Littlefeather, who died earlier this month at 75, wasn’t Native American . Her family has no Indian ancestry they could find. Nor did she grow up with a violent and abusive father, as she claimed in the past.

In interviews with the San Francisco Chronicle, sisters Rosalind Cruz and Trudy Orlandi spoke about their sibling, Marie Louise Cruz, who as a young activist and aspiring actress took the name Sacheen Littlefeather and began identifying as Native American.

“It’s a lie,” Orlandi told the newspaper in an exclusive interview. “My father was who he was. His family came from Mexico. And my dad was born in Oxnard.”

“It is a fraud,” Cruz added. “It’s disgusting to the heritage of the tribal people. And it’s just… insulting to my parents.”

The sisters said in separate interviews that they have no known Indian ancestry. They identified as “Spanish” on their father’s side and insisted their family had no claims to a tribal identity. Their mother was white.

“I mean, you’re not gonna be a Mexican American princess,” Orlandi said of her sister’s fake identity. “You’re gonna be an American Indian princess. It was more prestigious to be an American Indian than it was to be Hispanic in her mind.”

The sisters also debunked Littlefeather’s claim that their father was a violent, Apache alcoholic.

“My father was deaf and he had lost his hearing at 9 years old through meningitis,” Cruz told the Chronicle. “He was born into poverty. His father, George Cruz, was an alcoholic who was violent and used to beat him. And he was passed to foster homes and family.”

For decades, skepticism abounded about Sacheen Littlefeather’s identity, with reports hinting she was a Hispanic actress whom Brando had hired for the Oscars . During the 1973 ceremony, she identified herself as an Apache when she rejected Brando’s Oscar, citing “the treatment of American Indians today by the film industry.”

But Hollywood’s and the news media’s conversion to wokeness in recent years compelled them to elevate her to hero status and to either ignore or suppress the evidence she was a fraud.

The Cruz sisters told the Chronicle said they didn’t speak out earlier because they thought their sister’s fame would eventually dissipate. Now, they said, it is troubling to see her “being venerated as a saint.”

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I wonder if the Left ever tires of lying and being lied to.

I watched that Oscar broadcast live at the time. I remember the boos. I later read John Wayne was backstage and was extremely pissed, so much that he was physically restrained by security from running out on stage to confront her. I heard rumblings decades ago that she was possibly a fraud, and I'm not surprised by her sisters recent admission.

Marlon Brando was a great actor but an idiot when it came to politics and social issues.

I guess that leaves us with Jay Silverheels. It is interesting in the Hollywood westerns we had few Native Americans. Ricardo Montalban for example and Sal Mineo.

It's like the fake white hate crimes...when you don't have any facts to support your world view, you simply make them up. Much simpler and more convenient for everybody. So what if it's a lie, it should be true.

Another fake who appeared in TV and movies.



He claimed he was Native American but after his death, his family confirmed he was Sicilian, not an Injun.

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Originally posted by darthfuster:
I wonder if the Left ever tires of lying and being lied to.

Nope. Their mental illness has them believing the lies to be actual truth.

Pretindians.

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:

Jay Silverheels.

Harry J. Smith

Thankfully in Massachusetts our Senator is 1/1027 Native, Senator Warren even wrote a cookbook on native cuisine, and she teaches at Harvard.

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:
I guess that leaves us with Jay Silverheels. It is interesting in the Hollywood westerns we had few Native Americans. Ricardo Montalban for example and Sal Mineo.

Let's not forget Chief Dan George

Iron Eyes Cody: Italian-American

So... The sisters are "troubled" now? After the fraud croaked? How noble of them!

I was just about to post, “unbelievable,” but it’s not unbelievable at all, is it.

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I wonder if the Left ever tires of lying and being lied to.

No, because it is the narrative that counts, not the truthiness of their claims. In fact, a lie that advances the narrative is a thing to celebrate.

One thing I always liked about Dan George is he looked so much like my grandfather. (Who was Sicilian)

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Let's not forget Chief Dan George

He cool.

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Originally posted by spunk639:
Thankfully in Massachusetts our Senator is 1/1027 Native, Senator Warren even wrote a cookbook on native cuisine, and she teaches at Harvard.

LIAR!!!

She is 1/1024th. [sarcasm] Conservatives make shit up all the time!!!![/sarcasm]