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Sacheen Littlefeather Claimed To Be A Fraud [1]
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Date: 2022-10-22
Two women, claiming to be sisters of the late Sacheen Littlefeather, claim that the legendary Native activist...was simply yet another in a long line of pretenders with no tribal blood whatsoever
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The two sisters of Littlefeather (born Marie Louise Cruz) told the San Francisco Chronicle that, despite Littlefeather’s claims of being White Mountain Apache, their father was actually Mexican with no tribal identity; genealogical records also traced the Cruz family history to Mexico City with no known ties to the tribal nations there.
“It’s a lie,” Littlefeather’s sister Trudy Orlandi told author Jacqueline Keeler. “My father was who he was. His family came from Mexico. And my dad was born in Oxnard.”
Sister Rosalind Cruz added, “It is a fraud. It’s disgusting to the heritage of the tribal people. And it’s just … insulting to my parents.”
Part of the sisters’ decision to come forward with Littlefeather’s fraudulence was to rightfully honor their father, who Littlefeather painted as an abusive drunk in interviews, as well as embellished the family’s poverty growing up; the sisters said it was in fact their father’s father who was drunk and abusive, and Littlefeather took their father’s harsh childhood and applied it to her own origin story.
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