Biography for
Sacheen Littlefeather More at IMDbPro »

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In 1970 she had won the Miss American Vampire contest.

She is the Executive Director of the Kateri Prayer Circle in San Francisco. [2010]

In 1969 she, along with other members of the activist group Indians of All Tribes, occupied Alcatraz Island as a protest against the U.S. government's resistance to native land claims.

She refused Marlon Brando's Oscar for "The Godfather" by proxy in 1973, citing Hollywood's misrepresentation of Native American Indians. Her birth name is Maria Cruz (Cruz is her father's tribal name); her mother is of French-German-Dutch ancestry and her father's ancestry is Apache, Yaqui and Pueblo.