In the year 1995, The sacheen fell ill in her childhood due to tuberculosis, and after she recovered she earned a degree in holistic health and nutrition from Antioch University in California.
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On march 27, 1993 Littlefeather became the first indigenous woman and the first woman of colour to use the Academy Awards.
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In 1950,her mother left her father and took her and her two younger sisters to her grandparents.
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Just after her father died at the age of 44 years, she moved to San Francisco to pursue her modelling career from United Bay Indian Council.
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In the year 1970 she participated in the occupation of Alcatraz in San Francisco and adopted the name of Sacheen Littlefeather, also shown in a magazine ' Playboy
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She has also attended acting, yoga, fencing and dancing classes at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco.
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She is one of the teachers in the St. Mary’s Traditional Indian Medicine program, and also served as a community member of the American Indian Aids Institute.
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A tragedy for her as her mother died at the age of 86,when she appeared in the documentary 'Reel Injun
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In 1991, she recovered from colon cancer surgery, and in 2012 reported a remission of breast cancer
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She was awarded the honorary Eagle Spirit Award, and in November 2019, the Red Nation International Film Festival honoured her with the Brando Award with her great achievements and some other documentary films.
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