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Los Angeles, Oct. 23 (IANS): Months after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences apologised to her for what happened to her in 1973 Oscars, late Native American actress and activist Sacheen Littlefeather’s legacy is being questioned by her family, reports ‘People’ magazine. After Littlefeather died at age 75 earlier this month, her two sisters now claim that she lied about her indigenous ancestry and was previously known by the family as “Deb” in a bombshell interview with the ‘San Francisco Chronicle’. “It’s a lie,” Trudy Orlandi said of her sister, quoted by ‘People’ magazine. “My father was who he was. His family came from Mexico. And my dad was born in Oxnard.” Littlefeather’s other 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.” According to ‘People’, L
Months after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences apologised to her for what happened to her in 1973 Oscars, late Native American actress and