Sacheen Littlefeather has passed away on October 2nd 2022. While people remember her for her acceptance speech on behalf of Marlon Brando, know that she also ended the media blackout of the Wounded Knee occupation, won an Emmy & co-founded the American Indian AIDS Institute of San Francisco.
still thinking about how joy went through that chaotic, relentless search to find a version of her mom could understand her, but once she finally found an evelynn who understood her nihilism and reached out despite it, her first instinct was to run away