Sacheen Littlefeather Nude

It's unseasonably warm here at the Skin Central offices in Chicago. So what better way to celebrate Indian Summer than with a list of gorgeous actresses who have Native American ancestry?

Cher proclaimed herself a "Half Breed" and Sacheen Littlefeather made headlines at the 1973 Academy Awards, but you might be surprised at "how" many big names have native blood!

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On March 27, 1973, Marlon Brando won a Best Actor Oscar for his performance in The Godfather. However, Brando had grown angry over his country's poor treatment of Native Americans, particularly the negative stereotypes perpetuated by Hollywood and TV. Accordingly, Brando refused his Oscar and contacted his friends at the American Indian Movement (AIM) about sending a representative to the Academy Awards in his place to turn down the Oscar and state his reasons for refusing it. The AIM leaders picked former winner of the 1970 Miss American Vampire competition Sacheen Littlefeather to go on stage when Brando's name was called, officially refuse the award, and read a 15-page statement written by Brando about the 71-day standoff between U.S. Marshals and members of AIM that was currently ongoing in the town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, which was also the site of a massacre of Oglala Sioux Indians by the US military in 1890. The producers of the Academy Awards threatened to arrest her if she spoke for more than 45 seconds, so Sacheen improvised her comments onstage and read Brando's statement in its entirety to the press. Seven months later, Sacheen appeared nude in Playboy magazine. She also appeared in a number of films, including The Trial of Billy Jack (1974) and Johnny Firecloud, in which she got topless. For her stance against injustice and her bulbous chest-wigwams, Sacheen Littlefeather gets the one-handed salute from Mr. Skin.