You are who you say you are
Tuesday, May 29, 2012 at 01:58PM In the weird enchantment that is my life, goofy things happen. Like last week, the day that Rebecca invited me over to tend bees and also possibly have lunch with Sacheen Littlefeather. Who, I asked? She said, Google her, you'll remember. So naturally I did. I Googled and then sat for a few hours doing "research," which is another way of saying that I rock-hopped around the interwebz and indulged in a documentary streamed to my laptop courtesy of Netflix.
This is Sacheen Littlefeather. In 1973, Marlon Brando asked Sacheen to take the stage at the Oscars and refuse his award for Best Actor in The Godfather, to call attention to the treatment of Native Americans in the movies and at the siege then underway at Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
That's right: I had lunch with a woman who made history.