published : 16 Aug 2022 at 07:45
LOS ANGELES – Nearly 50 years after she was booed off the Oscars stage for declining Marlon Brando’s award on his behalf in protest at the film industry’s treatment of Native Americans, Sacheen Littlefeather has received an apology from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the group said Monday.
Littlefeather, who is Apache and Yaqui, was heckled at the…