Posted on 10/28/2022 9:10:40 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
At least Senator Elizabeth Warren had the sense to drop the act long before she became famous. Hollywood, activism and academia though seem to be full of perpetual fake Indians. And, unlike Iron Eyes Cody, of the crying Indian garbage ad, some do real damage.
Sacheen Littlefeather spent her “career” as an activist. And like most Indian activists, she was a fraud.
You might not know her name, but you’ve probably seen the video that made her famous. In 1973, actress and activist Sacheen Littlefeather took the stage at the Oscars dressed in a beaded buckskin dress in place of Marlon Brando, after he was awarded Best Actor for his role as Vito Corleone in “The Godfather.” Claiming Apache heritage, she spoke eloquently, to a backdrop of boos, of the mistreatment of Native Americans by the film industry and beyond.
Her sisters have come forward, long after the fact, to reveal that she was half-Mexican, not Indian at all.
“It’s a lie,” Orlandi told me 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 agreed. “It’s disgusting to the heritage of the tribal people. And it’s just … insulting to my parents.”
Beyond the Oscar appearance, Cruz took part in the Alcatraz occupation (raising the question of whether there were any actual Indians there, or just cosplaying leftists) and attacked Nixon while serving as a spokeswoman for the National American Indian Council which was notorious for the same thing.
It’s not as if this would have been hard to figure out. She never looked like anything except a bad actress portraying a cheesy Hollywood idea of an Indian woman.
Cruz claimed that ‘Littlefeather’ came from the name her father called her and that her mother took her away from her abusive father when she was 4. She tried monetizing her fake Indian routine with cheesy movies and a Playboy spread before Brando picked her up for a little epater le bourgeois. And yet people kept buying her nonsense.
The Academy museum, which infamously made no mention of the Jewish figures in Hollywood history, had a special event celebrating her in September.
Sacheen invites you to a special celebration of live Native American performances featuring a long-awaited statement of apology from the Academy. The evening’s program will include a land acknowledgement courtesy of Virginia Carmelo (Tongva/So. CA), and a conversation between Sacheen and Academy Member, producer, and co-chair of the Academy’s Indigenous Alliance Bird Runningwater (Cheyenne/Mescalero Apache/NM).
It was all fake all along.
And Cruz is one of countless fake Indians who pervade the media, academia and the entertainment industry because they provide a politically convenient tool for attacking America.
It would take a heart of stone not to laugh at this Indian Country profile of her nonsense.
It was a quiet protest, delivered as Sacheen Littlefeather lived her life — with dignity, grace, compassion and honesty, the way her ancestors would have wanted.
As the first Indigenous woman ever to stand at the podium at the Academy Awards, she put a spotlight on the inhumanity, stereotypes, disrespect and derision that Indigenous people faced in film and television, and brought the Wounded Knee protest to an international audience.
“I did not go up there in protest, with an up-in-the-air fist, with profanity, with a loud, screeching voice,” Littlefeather, now 75, Apache and Yaqui, told ICT in a recent interview. “The way that I went up on stage was prompted by my ancestors. I prayed that my words would meet not with deaf ears but with open hearts and open minds.”
Especially the honesty part. Did everyone really not know? I doubt it. But politics trumps truth.
No, this one is....................
Srednik may be mistaken, but the Italian-American screen actor known as Iron Eyes Cody was respected by the Lakota as a friend.
cody ironeyes was pretty famous (The indian who cried tears when he saw litter on the ground of America)- he was an italian
dang=- too late for my post l ol
Keep America Beautiful’s actions have been criticized as greenwashing. The organization’s narrow focus on littering and recycling diverts responsibility away from corporations and industries.[16]
Despite self-identifying as having Native American ancestry with the stage name of Iron Eyes Cody, Espera Oscar DeCorti was of Italian descent.[9] This sparked accusations of cultural appropriation and racial stereotyping.[17]
Heather Rogers, creator of the 2005 documentary film Gone Tomorrow. The Hidden Life of Garbage and book of the same name,[18] classifies Keep America Beautiful as one of the first greenwashing corporate fronts. She asserts that the group was created in response to Vermont’s 1953 attempt to legislate a mandatory deposit to be paid at point of purchase on disposable beverage containers and banning the sale of beer in non-refillable bottles.[19][20]
Keep America Beautiful’s narrow focus on litter, and its characterization of litter as a consumer created problem, is seen as an attempt to divert an extended producer responsibility from the industries that manufacture and sell disposable products to consumers who improperly dispose of the non-returnable wrappers, filters, and beverage containers.[18]
Elizabeth Royte, author of Garbage Land, describes Keep America Beautiful as a “masterful example of corporate greenwash”, writing that in contrast to its anti-litter campaigns, it ignores the potential of recycling legislation and resists changes to packaging.[21]
The tobacco industry developed programs with Keep America Beautiful that focused on cigarette litter solutions acceptable to the industry such as volunteer clean-ups and ashtrays, in lieu of smoking bans at parks and beaches.[22] The tobacco industry has funded Keep America Beautiful[22] and similar organizations internationally.[23]
Smarter, harder working, drink about the same...close enough!
✅ Dark hair
✅ Parted in the middle
✅ Pony tails
OK. Checks out. She’s an Indian.
Don’t forget thee high cheekbones!
Also, I work for a company in a highly regulated industry, and trust me, it is HIGHLY regulated. The amount of money that goes into making sure every ounce of even slightly dangerous material ends up in the proper place is mind-boggling.
Did anyone else have a hard time reading this article. I still don’t know who Cruz is and I’ve read it twice.
Okay, so you have to go to the other imbedded article to know who she is. Greenfield’s article is verbatim from the other authors article. Wow-that was ten minutes I’ll never get back.
Nope, Chief Italian Guy shedding a tear over the environment was followed by Princess I Wanna Job at Harvard who now has set up her teepee in the halls of the Senate
My cousin remembers those trips as being cold and dirty from living in tents in the woods, eating crummy food, getting bit by insects, and having to learn idiotic dances and chants and various Cherokee crafts and skills. He hated all of it. With blonde hair and blue eyes from his Polish ancestry father, my cousin did not even look like any of the real Cherokee kids he met or even much like his mother.
Several years after my aunt's death, my cousin took a DNA test that was a gift from his daughter. The test showed that his mother had zero Native American ancestry. Digging through a box of old family papers revealed the truth: his mother was of Greek and Italian ancestry, which accounted for her dark hair, brown eyes, and olive skin tone.
As best as my cousin could figure out, his mother, a stone solid racist, used the Cherokee ancestry claim to explain her features as something other than possible black ancestry. Sadly, my aunt suffered from dementia in her last years and was viciously critical and racist toward the nursing home staff who cared for her. My cousin, a dutiful son and a good sort, tipped the staff well and apologized profusely for his mother's trying nature.
The response to anti-littering campaigns was something unique.
It seemed that the instant it was pointed out to us not to throw trash out the window, we suddenly saw it clearly and stopped, all of a sudden we could look at the trash on the side of the road and realize that we should not throw out our burger wrappers and car garbage, it was an instance of the pre-immigration Americans having something brought to their attention and us collectively going gee, you are right, we just hadn’t thought of it.
Something that only oldtimers will remember is how broken glass was everywhere, at the lake, at the river swimming place, just about anywhere men could break their beer bottles or shoot them on the edge of the water or camp-ground, or whatever, and the kids would routinely get hellish glass cuts on their bare feet during family outings, nasty, deep, stitches required cuts.
I wonder if the desire to get back the deposit fee will outweigh the mischievous delight from shooting or breaking a bottle.
People are probably less prone to breaking bottles than they used to be and kids are less prone to going barefoot.
There might be a little broken glass but just as in the litter situation, people just did not have self-awareness in the past about such a thing.
“Iron Eyes Cody’’ was an Italian-American.
Yes and he was the best Fake-Indian there ever was! He even fooled REAL INDIANS!..............
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