1973: Native American actor Sacheen Littlefeather boo'd (and cheered) by Hollywood at the Oscars before being mocked by Clint Eastwood and almost physically assaulted by John Wayne simply for asking that Indigenous people not to be dehumanized in film.
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Littlefeather also did it to bring attention to protestors at Wounded Knee.
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Clint Eastwood never stopped, part 25. And Hollywood kept giving him about one movie a year for over 50 years.
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This thread did its job showing who Clint Eastwood was but now its spreading to another racist cowboy poser, John Wayne. So happy I went to university.
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The Snopes fact check of the John Wayne portion of my Tweet.
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It's about time. Academy apologized to Sacheen Littlefeather yesterday.
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The Academy has finally apologized to Sacheen Littlefeather, after she was booed and heckled and almost violently assaulted by a drunken John Wayne in 1973 — and it only them 50 years.
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Hey, sometimes using Twitter to hold fire to the feet of the powerful works. Thanks to the 11 million people who viewed the clip at the top of this thread not forget what Sacheen Litterfeather did, and helped push and prod the Academy to honor her.
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Rest in power Sacheen Littlefeather.
It was your activism, starting this little thread you all shared that helped spark world recognition and an apology and a celebration of Sacheen from the Academy just weeks before she passed away from breast cancer.
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