The Native American activist, who famously declined Marlon Brando's 1973 lead actor Oscar, died Sunday at 75, according to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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Months later, Brando expressed his own misgivings about the position he’d put Littlefeather in: “I was distressed that people should have booed and whistled and stomped, even though perhaps it was directed at myself,” he told Dick Cavett. “They should have at least had the courtesy to listen to her.”
The academy honored Littlefeather two weeks ago with an evening of “conversation, reflection, healing and celebration” during which she spoke with producer and academy member Bird Runningwater, co-chair of the organization’s Indigenous Alliance, and revisited the night she declined Brando’s Oscar.
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