Just so you know, since many people are about to watch the #Oscars, there's a bit of Native history.
In 1973, Sacheen Littlefeather was asked to deliver a speech for Marlon Brando, who rejected his Oscar for best actor due to the mistreatment of Native Americans in Hollywood.
When Sacheen Littlefeather came to deliver the speech, Western actor John Wayne was held back by security because he was outraged by Littlefeather.
Sacheen Littlefeather was only given one minute to share Marlon Brando's speech.
She was booed and applauded.
On March 23, 2018, Sacheen Littlefeather read the famous Oscar's speech in its entirety for the first time publicly anywhere on @Nativetrailblaz -ers radio. It had been 45 years since she had first delivered the partial speech.
On March 23, 2018, Sacheen Littlefeather read the famous #Oscar's speech for the first time publicly anywhere on Native Trailblazers radio. It had been 45 years
Columbus Day was promoted by the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic organization in the 1930s that wanted a Catholic hero. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the day into law as a federal holiday in 1937.
Columbus offered a year's salary reward for the crew member who first cited land. Though a sailor saw the land, Columbus said he saw a dim light the night before and kept the reward for himself.
In 1621, Pilgrims celebrated a feast w/Wampanaog men, but it was not repeated in the years to follow. In 1636, a murdered white man was found in a boat & the Pequot were blamed. In retaliation, settlers burned Pequot villages. 100's died
English Major John Mason rallied his troops to burn Pequot wigwams and attacked and killed hundreds of men, women and children.
They were blamed for a murder they did not commit - and were burned to death.
Hello Twitter family.
Right now I'm sitting at my father's bedside in an emergency room.
He has a fever (not likely COVID) He is elderly and sick. He also has dementia. He is 72.
It gives me a lot of pause and thoughts.
Can you please read and share this #thread about my father.
I think of the 54 years I have known my father. And I realize there is so much more I could have learned from him. So much I don't know about his life, his feelings about things.
There are things that I will never know. Things I never asked him.
What did his room look like as a kid? Did he read comic books? What was his favorite subject in school?
I realize there is so much.
I'm a journalist, I ask people about their lives every day. I ask them questions I have never asked my father.
Dammit ...