Thread by @rafaelshimunov

That time Marlin Brando refused his Oscar win and instead invited Sacheen Littlefeather to ask Hollywood to stop dehumanizing Native Americans too boos and applause.

Then when Clint Eastwood followed by mocking her and saying we should honor all the fictional dead Cowboys.

Today we have oil pipelines circling around white neighborhoods and through Native burial grounds and water. We have children in desert cages and babies in court alone without lawyers taken from their parents.

Will anyone at the Oscars step up like Brando and Littlefeather?

Today we have Bradley Cooper, who recruited racist Clint Eastwood, to make a racist film celebrating a sniper war criminal who bragged about murdering everything in his site in Iraq, where many US snipers were notorious for targeting families and looting homes.

Thread on #AStarIsBorn Bradley Cooper and his propaganda film celebrating a war criminal.

https://twitter.com/rafaelshimunov/status/1099869501418553346

Here is Littlefeather closer to today.

She said "John Wayne was in the wings, ready to have me taken off stage. He had to be restrained by six security guards. Afterward people questioned my authenticity, they said I wasn’t even Indian.”

“two security people who kept everyone at a distance from me so that I was protected. I remember some people making some very stereotypical sounds and tomahawk chops towards me afterwards. And I just blessed them and went on,”

Also, because she mentioned current events at Wounded Knee, which was under siege by the FBI, it sent press and investigators there immediately to uncover.

You can write to Sacheen Littlefeather by mail or email.

And how one woman's ally was another woman's victimizer.

Brando himself stands acussed of conspiring with filmmakers to create a realistic rape scene by actually raping a 19 year old actress on film.

elle.com/culture/movies…