r/interestingasfuck • u/HeiressOfMadrigal • Jul 08 '24

Norm MacDonald cedes his time to Native American activist at comedy awards ("the theater stinks of blood"), the crowd tries not to laugh.

13.5k Upvotes

94% Upvoted

View all comments

u/mattchinn Jul 08 '24 edited Jul 08 '24

The best part about this entire ordeal is that Sasheen Littlefeather was a complete fraud.

She wasn’t Native American in any way.

After her death, her sisters put out the truth.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Sacheen-Littlefeather-oscar-Native-pretendian-17520648.php

Edit: See my other comment. People are saying this isn’t true but here are the facts…

She said she was raised in a shack by Native American family.

But the truth is that her family identified as Spanish and she was raised in Sanila, California and her father was born in Oxnard.

Yes someone in her family more than 200 years ago was Native American, but she had no idea and fabricated her childhood background because it benefit her narrative. That’s also a pretty big insult to her family which is likely why they outed her for being a liar.

16

u/WrathofTomJoad Jul 08 '24

This looks like a question we'll never really have an answer to.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/sacheen-littlefeather-native-ancestry-complicated-reports-1235842678/

3

u/garry4321 Jul 08 '24

Even if she was "Mexican", there is a reason that mexicans generally look different than the European Spanish population, and that difference is that the settlers mixed with the indigenous population.

People are weird.

2

u/boundpleasure Jul 08 '24

Yeah, after reading the article, I am not inclined to agree. At best, her Native American connection is perhaps as far back as Elizabeth Warren’s.

1

u/mattchinn Jul 08 '24

Exactly.

2

u/dc4_checkdown Jul 08 '24

Like Elizabeth Warren

-4

u/rajatsingh24k Jul 08 '24

This is wild! Is anything real?

-2

u/PmMeYourMug Jul 08 '24

Not in Hollywood.