NEW YORK -- Sacheen Littlefeather had only 60 seconds to speak at the 1973 Academy Awards. In her brief speech, she refused the Oscar for best actor on behalf of Marlon Brando, faced a mixture of loud ...

Her iconic speech spotlighted Hollywood's mistreatment of Native Americans. Sacheen Littlefeather refuses the Oscar for Best Actor on behalf of Marlon Brando for his role in "The Godfather" from ...

The Academy formally apologized to the Native American activist and former actress in June after she was blacklisted for representing the actor at the 1973 Academy Awards. By Rebecca Sun Senior Editor ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Sacheen Littlefeather, the Native American activist who refused an Oscar on behalf of Marlon Brando, has died, only months after the Academy issued an apology for how she was ...

(AP) - Sacheen Littlefeather, the actor and activist who declined Marlon Brando’s 1973 Academy Award for “The Godfather” on his behalf in an indelible protest of Hollywood’s portrayal of Native ...

OSCAR WILES (IX): In all the years I have been covering Oscar orgies for The Village Voice, I have never known a single incident to dominate with such paralyzing irrelevance every post-mortem ...