{"id":90861,"date":"2022-10-23T19:47:52","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T02:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=90861"},"modified":"2022-10-23T19:47:52","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T02:47:52","slug":"littlefeathers-no-indian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2022\/10\/23\/littlefeathers-no-indian\/","title":{"rendered":"Littlefeather&#8217;s No Indian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you remember <strong>Sacheen Littlefeather<\/strong>?&nbsp; She was the Native American who <strong>Marlon Brando <\/strong>sent to accept his 1973 <em>Oscar <\/em>\u2013 and, instead, protest how \u201cIndians\u201d were portrayed on the screen.&nbsp; Immediately, she was accused of being hired to pose as a Native American.&nbsp; Now, three weeks after her passing, it seems that might have been the case.&nbsp; Littlefeather was actually <strong>Marie Louise Cruz<\/strong>, and she was Mexican!&nbsp; And there is no documentation of her family belonging to any Native American tribes.&nbsp; And where did these details come from?&nbsp; Her sisters!&nbsp; They claim Sacheen\/Marie Louise wanted to be an actress and felt that saying she was an Apache would help her stand out.&nbsp; How right she was!&nbsp; Here\u2019s the kicker \u2013 her sisters made the revelation at her funeral!&nbsp; They were troubled seeing their sister \u201cvenerated as a saint.\u201d&nbsp; That would piss me off, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you remember Sacheen Littlefeather?&nbsp; She was the Native American who Marlon Brando sent to accept his 1973 Oscar \u2013 and, instead, protest how \u201cIndians\u201d were portrayed on the screen.&nbsp; Immediately, she was accused of being hired to pose as a Native American.&nbsp; Now, three weeks after her passing, it seems that might have been<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90862,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90861\/revisions\/90862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}