10/10/22 10/10/22 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from new york, this is democracy now! >> the.s. is not alo. it is a role that has been to act to mak negotiations harder to achieve unlikely. amy: russia has launched its largest strikes on ukraine in months, attackinkyiv and other

cities two days after russia accused ukraine of blowing up a key bridge connecting russia to crimea as the war is glades, we will speak to noam chomsky and vijay prashad archon for the u.s. to push negotiations to en the war. then we mark indigenous people'' day by remembering sacheen littlefeather who died last week . nearly 50 years ago, she spoke at the oscars on behalf of marlon brando who boycotted the ceremony to protest hollywood's portrayal of native americans. >> he very regretfully cannot accept is very generous award. and the reason for this are the treatment of american indians today by the film industry -- excuse me. and on television and movie

reruns and also with recent happenings at wounded knee. amy: sacheen littlefeather, boos from the crowd and threats of physical. she never stopped speaking up. we hear from sacheen littlefeather in her own words and speak to buffy sainte-marie. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. in ukraine, kyiv and other cities have come under intense attack from russian missile strikes following saturday's explosion at russia's key bridge to, a. the blast on that bridge, the

longest in your, collapsed two road was an reportedly left three people dead. president flood mayor boudin called it an act of terrorism -- president vladimir putin called it act of terrorism. ukrainian officials say russia's latest attacks killed at least 10 people and struck infrastructure in 12 regions of ukraine, knocking out supplies of water and electricity. on sunda russian missiles rained down on the southeastern city of zaporizhzhia, killing at least 13 people. this came after the russian-occupied zaporizhzhia nuclear plant temporarily lost its power supply saturday due to shelling and had to switch on emergency diesel generators to prevent a nuclear disaster. this is 10-year-old bohdan pavlenko, who survived sunday's attack on zaporizhzhia. >> i heard the sirens and the person next to me screaming. there was no mobile connection. it was horrific.

i mother took me under her arm and then i look after my little brother and sister. the russian federation doing all of this, special operation. i don't think this is a special operation. amy: in other news from ukraine, the governor of donetsk province says mass burial sites have been found in the recently liberated town of lyman. it's unknown how many bodies were discovered, but site one reportedly held about 200 individual graves. in iran, a live news broadcast on state-run television was apparently hacked saturday during aegment featuring preme lead ali khamenei. the hackers placed a photo of khamenei with a target over his face on the screen, along wi the messagesjoin us and rise up" and "the blood of our youth is dripping fromour grip." the imagalso displays photos of three women killed in recent protests in iran, well as mahsa ami, who died while in custody ofhe so-call moraty police. amini'death has sparked mass

monstratio in iran and arnd the world. the group iran human rights says at least 185 people have been killed irecentrotests, includg at least9 children. in the occupied west bank, israeli forces killed four palestinian teenagers in three separate attacks over the weekend. the youngest victim was 14-year-old adel ibrahim daoud, who was shot dead near the israeli separation barrier. on saturday, an israeli soldier was fatally shot at a military checkpoint in east jerusalem. in other news from the occupied territories, israel has agreed to pay $141,000 to the family of omar asaad, an 80-year-old palestinian-american man who died after being violently detained by israeli forces in january. it's extremely rare for the israeli military to admit wrongdoing or compensate palestinian victims of its crimes. the united nations is calling for an investigation into the

deaths of 15 migrants found friday on a beach in western libya. 11 of the victims were found partially burned in the charred remains of a boat. four oth bodies with injuries were found near the boat. the u.n. says thmigrants' deaths likely resulted from clashes between rival human smugglers in an area that's frequently used as a launching point for asylum seekers hoping to reach italy by boat. the international organization for migration reports at least 216 people have died attempting to cross the mediterranean so far this year, with another 724 missing and presumed dead. here in the united states, judges temporarily blocked abortion bans in ohio and arizona friday while challenges to the bans proceed. following the supreme court's overturning of roe v wade in june, at least 13 states have enacted a near-total ban on abortions. meanwhile, people took to the streets saturday in nationwide rallies organized by the women's

march ahead of next month's midterms. in december, protesters marched to the u.s. capitol. >> we are here today because my blood and my tears had to fight to vote, had to fight to get roe in the first place. >> i personal attitude is i don't believe anyone should become a mom if it is not in the cards for them and i don't think politics should determine that. it is my body, my choice. for every woman in the world, not just our country. amy: in nevada, alabama senator tommy tuberville called -- launched into a racist tirade at a trump-held rally in support of republican midterm candidates saturday. >> they want to control what you have. they what reparations because they think the people that do the crime are owed that. full [beep]

amy: journalist and author jemele hill tweeted in response to the racist remarks -- "a reminder that tommy tuberville was a collegiate coach for nearly 30 years, during which he coached scores of black players. he made millions off their abilities, but here's what he really thinks about black folks." and in san antonio, texas, bear county district attorney joe gonzales has named james brennand as the police officer who shot 17-year-old erik cantu as he was eating in a mcdonald's parking lot last week. cantu remains hospitalized in critical condition. brennand opened fire on the teen moments after opening the driver-side door even though cantu posed no risk and was unarmed. in other news from texas, the uvalde school district has suspended its entire police force. the move comes as families continue to demand answers over the jailed -- the failed police

response to the may 24 massacre when a gunman shotead 19 school children and two teachers. police officers on the scene waited 77 minutes before confronting the teenage shooter. in utah, a jury has acquitted two animal rights activists who faced prison time for rescuing two sick piglets from a smithfield foods factory farm in 2017. it's a major victory for animal rights advocates and the group behind the 2017 rescue, direct action everywhere, who have been fighting to establish a right to rescue animals in distress. this is wayne hsiung speaking to journalists and supporters after the verdict. >> these two beautiful creatures who do not deserve the suffering they were living in. a jury thought that, too. so on to the next rescue.

amy: in new york, two hospitals have agreed to pay a $165 million settlement to 147 patients who accused a gynecologist of sexual abuse and . columbia university irving medical center and new york-presbyterian announced the agreement friday. robert hadden surrendered his medical license after he was convicted in 2016 but was not sentenced to any prison time. he's currently awaiting trial on separate federal charges of sexually abusing dozens of women over two decades. new york city mayor eric adams on friday declared a state of emergency in response to the thousands of asylum seekers arriving to the city in buses sent from texas and other republican-led states. since april, over 17,000 asylum seekers have been bused to new york from the u.s.-mexico border. mayor adams spoke at a press conference friday. >> we need help from the federal government, the state of new york, new york city is doing our part and now others must step up

and join us post up from our federal partners, we need legislation that will allow these asylum to legally work now . amy: and in london, thousands of supporters of julian assange formed a massive human chain around the british parliament saturday to demand freedom for the jailed wikileaks founder. solidarity actions were held in other cities around the world, includinin washiton, d.c., where protesters called on the justice department to drop its efforts to extradite assange. he faces up to 175 years in u.s. prison on espionage and hacking charges for exposing u.s. war crimes in afghanistan and iraq. this is julian's wife stella speaking in london. >> it has cast a very dark shadow over the british government that it has not stop this. the itish government should be speaking to its counterparts in the united states to bring this matter to an end immediately. it has already gone on for 3.5

years. its a stain on the united kingdom and the biden administration. amy: and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. as the war in ukraine escalates, we speak with noam chomsky and vijay prashad. stay with us. ♪♪ [music break]

amy: "the war racket" by buffy sainte marie. we will be speaking with a native american musician later in the broadcast. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. russia has launched its largest strikes in ukraine in months, attacking kyiv and other cities. today strikes come today's after russia accused ukraine of blowing up a key bridge connecting russia to crimea. as the war in ukraine continues to escalate, we return to our recent conversation with vijay

prashad and noam chomsky, co-authors of the new book "the withdrawal: iraq, libya, afghanistan, and the fragility of u.s. power." i spoke with them several weeks ago with juan and zealous. --juan gonzalez. vijay prashad joined us from new york and noam chomsky from brazil, world-renowned political dissident really was, other, lori professor in the department of an with sticks at the university of arizona and professor emeritus at massachusetts institute of technology where he taught for more than half a century. you both talk about allowing russia and ukraine to negotiate, but how does one do that? and talk about exactly what the u.s. can do now, professor chomsky. noam: what the u.s. can do is stop acting to prevent

negotiations. for a long time -- there's no time to review the record, but the position of the united states has been to try to undermine possibilities of negotiations. they're not alone in this. macon, putin discussions up to few days before the invasion, president macron was trying very hard to avoid the invasion by offering. assumptions -- various options. said we actual have the transfer, do this, no guesswork. putin was dismissive at the very end, couple of days before the invasion. he just dismissed it with contempt said, sorry, i've got to go ice skating -- something

like that. so the u.s. is not alone but it's role has been to act to make negotiations harder to achieve unlikely. that is as recently as late april as far as we know most of what the united states can do is stop acting like that. stop -- drop the official position that the war must go on to weaken russia severely, meaning no negotiations. will that open a way for negotiations? diplomacy -- only one way to find out. if you don't try, of course it won't happen. if i may, i would like to add a word about something that was touched on but not developed sufficiently in myieand it is highly signicant, china.

what is happening with regard to china. it is barely being reported. but it is supreme significance. there has been an agreement that has held for 50 yrs called the one china policy, in the 1970's. the agreement is between u.s. andhina that taiwan is part of china -- not in question. ither party, u.s. or china, will act to disrupt the peaceful relations that persist. it is called stratic ambiguity. it has held for 50 years. that is a lot in world affairs. the united states is now undermining pelosi's reckless stupid visit was one example,

but more significant are two other things. one is the united states as accelerated under the biden administration is promoting a policy of what is called encircling china, basically, u.s. satellites heavily armed with weapons aimed at china, precision weapons to encirclet to keep it from the aggression that is contrived in the u.s. propaganda. more significant still is what just happened a couple weeks ago . on september 14, the senate foreign relations committee proposed legislation, almost unanimous, virtually calling for a war with china. not their word. of course if you read the resolution, it called for

substantially enhancing u.s. armaments to china, changing relations to taiwan -- sorry, changing relations with taiwan to elevate taiwan to the level of non-nato partner to be treated as any other sovereign country, diplomatically, moving toward interoperabilitof weapon systems to the united states. if you pay attention to what was happening in ukraine for the last a good or so, that is pretty much the program -- last cade or so, that is pretty much the program followed by the united states toove toward integratingkraine de facto into the u.s. nato military system. senate feign relations committee goe into something similar with regard to taiwan.

extraordinary provocation. severely undermines the one china policy that is still -- it is barely discussed most of in the background is the encirclement program. it is is if the senate and bipartisan senate is hell-bent on involving united states in two major wars, each of which could be a terminal war. all of this is going on. it is not secret. it is not being discussed. again, it iss if some kind of an insanity is pervading the social and political atmosphere. juan: i wanted to ask vijay prashad, the issue of

humanitarian intervention in the old days, the old 19th century imperialists went to asia, africa, latin america to civilize the population, supposedly. now we are seeing repeatedly united states resorting to armed conflicts -- "humanitarian reasons most go to defend human rights, to preserve democracy. we sought in serbia and libya and syria. we see u.s. government agencies like the national endowment of democracy, u.s. funded agency, now headed by cement the powers, can you talk about how the united states basically funds civil society groups in various countries to foam at opposition to governments that

it is opposed to? >> i just reported a story from haiti which is undergoing a major set of protests. these protests have been going on for the past four years, getting very little attention around the world. people are on the streets. they are desperate. fuel prices have are escalating beyond believe. there's been no commentary about this. ever since the assassination of the head of government -- ever since his assassination, ariel henry has been placed on -- in the government by the united states. he was effectively put there by the so-called core group led by the u.s. interesting when you look at his own record, he emerged in the struggle against aristide.

mr. aristide needs to be in the innes book of world records because he is the only world leader i know who has been couped twice by the united states. when mr. aristide attempting desperately to produce his social democratic policy for haiti, haiti, country which had the first revolution in the americas, real revolution, first major revolution, it was strangled by the french. until the 1950's, haiti had to pay indemnity for the people who had freed themselves, for "the slaves." your air street was trying to drive a good -- mr. aristide was trying to drive a good policy. ariel henry, funded by the international public institute and national endowment for democracy in the united states. many of the actors who came into the anti-aristide movement were financed by the united states government. then eventually when people like ariel henry fashion himself as

the neurosurgeon but in fact was a pawn of the united states government, the ngo -- haiti is a bastion of ngo's. he along with the obama administration to prevent the rise of minimum-wage. at the time port-au-prince said we should not raise the minimum wage because that essentially the unwashed will get money. then went into gangs. many of those gangs are in some ways the only organized force in haiti. i mean, look at the destruction of the so-called humanitarian intervention brought to haiti. you don't have to go far from the u.s. to see it. you don't have to go to iraq or libya. the countries destroyed by the u.s. wars in the name of democracy. when are people going to come to understand you can't bring

democracy by warfare? you have to negotiate with people. you have to let people develop their own dignified histories. you can't bully countries into doing things. by the way, there is no credibility for this. let's face it, at the same time the united states said we are going to go to war in libya to prevent an atrocity, which later amnesty international found had not happened, was an entire hoax. at the same time the united states was saying that, its principal ally in the conflict was in the gulf, was the saudi arabia and qatar where there are atrocities every day against working people, against people who come from south asia, from the philippines, and so on. there is concern about these workers to hand over their passports, get treated in a form of honor and a slavery. no concern about that. where's the credibility? it is striking the people in the

united states into fall into this trap over and over again. having faith in a government that feeds you the lie that is out there to promote democracy. you want to see -- look at what is happening in haiti. there's very little avenue out of this crisis for the haitian people. one of the elements, by the way, of this crisis is the u.s. pressure campaign on venezuela. because venezuela, through t the skin called -- was providing haiti with cutprice energy. because of the pressure campaign on venezuela, essentially fell apart and haiti has not been able to get the kind of energy required. i mean, it is quite clear if you look at the evidence that these wars in the name of democracy or these wars in the name of humanitarian intervention simply do not add up.

talk to the haitians. talk to the afghans and you'll understand how they see it. juan: noam chomsky, i wanted to ask you about peace movements or the absence of peace movements. during the vietnam war during the a rapport, there were vibrant peace movements in the united states but now during this war in ukraine, even the most left-wing representatives in congress and the senate, whether it is bernie, aoc, and others, have basically gone along with continuing to finance and pursue the support of this war in ukraine. your sense of the absence of a peace movement right now in th u.s.? >> first of all, we should be realisticbout the pce movement in vietnam and iran. in the case of vietnam, it took

years to develop any kind of peace movement. by the time the significant peace movement had developed in 1967, pet name, the main target -- vietnam, the main target, had been practically destroyed at the time where the leading specialist on the topic warned vietnam may not survive as a historical entity under the most severe attacks that any country has -- that size has ever seen. by that time you began to get a peace movement. not much in congress. very little. certainly notuch among their intellectual community.

it was a popular peace movement which did have an effect after years and yea -- that is when the united states was working up much of indochina. the iraq war is important. first time in history there was a major protest against a war before it was officially launched. i say officially because it was already underway. but then it declined. there was not much protest later that the united states was carrying on horrendous atrocities in iraq and the lucia and other places -- fallujah, and other places. very ltle protest. in this case, the united states is not directly involved. it is not bombing.

it is more indirect. it is very surprising in comparison with others, you don't see much of a peace movement development. you should. it is here. but it is vilified, course. anyone who opens their mouths and says, "look, let's try to war this horror the way the most of the world once," gets denounced, nullified, putin supporter and so on and so forth. it is even true for highly respected major war criminals like henry kissinger. he tries to say it, immediately demonized. the essence is there, but it is more trivialize. the issue i don't think is sending defensive weapons to ukraine, i think you can make a good case for that. the problem is what is not

discussed, the continual program of the united states for over a decade to integrate ukraine within the u.s.-nato military system. to the point where military journals refer to ukraine as the de facto member of nato. obviously, the russians concede -- everyone wanting the policy -- with regard to taiwan. extending to the point where it is right now, war must continue until russia is severely weakened. events of last april our case in point.

there are parts of the peace movement that are pursuing -- they are demonized. they don't make it into the mainstream. and even parts of what is called the left condemn them sharply. you can't put any conditions on th. any additional support for ukraine. amy: i wanted to ask about vijay prashad and dan noam chomsky about russians in the streets protesting more than 1000 arrested, hundreds of thousands apparently leaving russia now because of the mobilization that putin has announced over 300,000 people to be sent to ukraine. vijay prashad, your thoughts? >> look, you know, we e with peace builders all over the world. obviously, nobody was to be involved in any kind of war conflict or anything like that. when you have conscription,

people are not interested. it is quite clear that in russia and other parts of eastern europe, nobody wants the war. but it has been something that i think has been pushed and provoked and people have been prodded into this. but it is not something that you're going -- you go into happily. i am on my way to cuba where the cubans have suffered another hurricane. hurricane ian. then about 48 hours, they were able to get back online. of course i am happy that it took 48 hours post in puerto rico, by the way, it took two weeks. still 250 thousand people from hurricane fiona have not got their power back. but look at the way it works. people are suffering in cuba from the impact of hurricane.

the united states won't remove the blockade. of course people in russia are against the war, also suffering on it when we are the other. they don't want to be conscripted. we need to fight for negotiations. we need to be peace builders in the world, not to accelerate conflict. i think noam is correct, anyone who calls for peace, anyone who has a dissenting opinion is called now a purveyor of disinformation. i think this is a very dangerous situation we have got ourselves into. those who are for peacebuilding are maligned and those who are wanting to accelerate war are considered to be heroes of human rights. very, very dangerous situation in the culture where those who are peace builders simply cannot find a way to be heard or to be taken seriously. i think this is a problem for the culture, not just for us. amy: noam chomsky, your thoughts

on this and the subtitle of your book, the very end of it, "the fragility of u.s. power. >> that is not very distant background of all of these subscriptions. ukraine conflict has accelerated the process that has been developing of what is going to be the shape of the world ahead. what is the structure of global society. there are conflictin visions. putin's criminal invasion of ukraine. they go way back. one of the most important developments in postsecond world war history, which is rarely discussed, is the effort of the global south to find a place a the table.

1960's, 1970's under the leadership of african latin american significant, highly gnificant figures tried to create what th called a new international order tha involved -- in thenited nations, other new institutions, later brics, tried to find a new international order in a new information order in which the global south would have a place that was crushed on violence and deceit. a major chapter of world history. it's really appearing. now we have hearing once again very now reappearing once again very clearly to go along with

the u.s. british policies in europe. of course simply rididicule the claims about humanitarn intervention and support for democracy and the u.n. charter among the leading -- from the ople who are the leading violators of these principles. the south us not have to be informed. they know about it from years of experience. they simply ridicule, including all the talk about humanitarian intervention. well, the question is, are we going to move toward cash after the collapse of the soviet union, will we have a unilateral world dominated by the united states as the sole of hegemonic power as a force the u.s.

wants based on nato where the u. -- one vision of post-soviet world affairs. the other is a vision that was advanced by mikal gorbachev with respect to charles de gaulle and others throughout the cold war period who sought to create a europe which would be in independent force in world affairs, not under the control of the unid states. in the cold war years was called the ird world. gorbachev's picture was what you call a common eopean home, lisbon, no military alliances, no victors, no defeated, cooperation on all sides to move

toward a kind of social democratic united cooperative region. it is very much in the interest of the participants, u.s. strongly opposed to it. putin's invasion of ukraine was a tremendous gift to the united states. offer to the u.s. senate a civil platter, what it is always wanted, europe subordinate, subservient submitting to u.s. orders. it is not clear how long that will last toward europe, germany , the german-based industrial system is a disaster. one of the most informed and astute international analysts more recently the marriage

between europe and russia is a marriage made in heaven. they are complementary. they need each other. the accommodation between western europe and russia would open the way for europe to have access, direct access to unifying much of asia, the chinese market. there complementary in every respect and need each other. well, how long will europe agree to hang on to's washington's coattails instead of moving toward something like the gorbachev goal-style -- that is

a major question in world affairs. always is the effort of the global south to be heard. former colonial world trying to break free of the shackles of the centuries-old colonial system. 1970's was major period in a effort being backed by the u.s. and other imperial powers is reviving again. all of this is in the back room. major questions. ukraine, attention on it, what i mentioned about china and taiwan. far too little discussed is a major point of tension and threat that may brinthe world

down. we have to pay attention. the background issue is pretty simple. either the great powers will find a way to accommodate and work together on our common problems like global warming, nuclear war, and so on -- either they will find a way to accommodate or we all dn to disaster together. it is as simple as that. america professor noam chomsky and vijay prashad, co-authors of the new book "the withdrawal: iraq, libya, afghanistan, and the fragility of u.s. power." to see more of our interview with them, go to democracynow.org. coming up on this indigenous peoples' day, wispy speak to legendary singer and activist buffy sainte-marie and we remember sacheen littlefeather who spoke at the oscars in 1973 on behalf of marlon brando, who

boycotted the ceremony to protest hollywood's portrayal of native americans. stay with us. ♪♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman.

today is indigenous peoples' day and we turn to the legendary indigenous musician and activist buffy sainte-marie who was born on the planes first nation reserve saskatchewan. she has written and sung about the struggles of native americans and first nations for decades. she worked with the american indian movement and began a foundation for american indian education. her political activism would lead her to be largely blacklisted from commercial radio in the 1970's. on sunday, democracy now! reached buffy sainte-marie in hawaii. we asked her for her message on is indigenous peops' day. >> indigenous peoples' day come you know, it is a huge concept. the way i think of it, i think of it in two ways. one is how to handle the ha information that we must know about and the other is what can we provide to offset tha information? as we try d fix things. the most important thing is --

the missin element the world understanding of indigenous peoples tds to de with effect dishes peop suffer from a handicap that others don't have to face. it has to do with the doctne of discovery, which is a 15th century -- think of it as a bulletin from the pope saying what god really wants. what is being sent is the document of discovery says explor coming from inhabited lands were instructed to invade, capture,nd subdue the inhabints and to rede their persons to perpetual svery. ando appropriatto himself and his successors all of their lands, kingdoms, possessions, and goods, and to conrt them to his use and profi please, d't say, oh, that is the 15th century, because it is

stilon the boo in u.s. law, canadi law today. even rick bader ginsburg used it to defeat the oneida tribe in 2005. so the doctrine of discoverys still a real living reality in the liv of indinous people throughout the world that has be colonized. the pope recently went to canada. a lot of my relatives were there to see him. a lot of people turned out and everybody was raising fists against the pope and the catholic crch for the doctrine of discovery but that is really aiming at the wrong target because the church has aeady done away with that. they're not continuing to do that kind of invasion. there aren't any more countries love to invade, iuess. but what really needs to be done is people interested in this, instead of yelling at the church , we need to expunge it from the legal systems of each and every country where it still exists throughout the colonial world.

yes, the catholics established it, but it is u to modern nations to expunge it, to get rid of it, to make it go away. the other half of what i have to say on indigenous peoples' day really has to do witcoming up the posivity's nobody knows about indigenous people. i am on thboard of a foundation in canadand i rk with -- before i was a singer, i was a teacher. i work with ds a lot. i feel sorry for little kids were hearing about just the hoors of our awful -- what has happened to us, hearing about residential schoolsexhuming the bodies of children who were just put in mass graves ththat were not even identified weather was a boy or girl, how old. that and missi and murdered indigenous women and girls. thousands and thousands of women turning missing or murdered every year. this is big stuff.

and need to know about it. but we need also to be giving each oth, especially children, what they need to know about indigenous people that is just positive. we made this little video with the downey foundation about positivity. did you know team sports were invented by indigenous people on the side of the water in e rubber ball and arenas with goalpost at either end and spectators and shoulder pads and helmets? it sounds like the nfl. when it is hockey or baseball or lacrosse or football season, tell your friends and celebrate us. if all we think about is one side or the other, we just go in circles. remember to paddle on both sides of the canoe. that is how you get somewhere. when it is nfl season or basketball or basebl or lacrosse, please, remember indigenous people gave us a

ole lot of things, including team sports. my take on indigenous indigenous peoples' day is ther is an awful lot of work to be done. it is doable. it is a matter of informing one another without fists in the air and doing the work but please, let's be thinking about kids and the kind of sff they are seeing on television and they come aoss every day in all parts of their lives and start providing positive step. amy: the legendary indigenous activist and musician buffy sainte-marie speaking to us from hawaii. on this indigenous peoples day, we spend the rest of the hour remembering sacheen littlefeather. she recently died at the age of 75. in 1973 she took the stage at the oscars on behalf of of marlon brando who boycotted the ceremony to protest hollywood's portrayal of native americans. some members of the audience booed and mocked littlefeather as she addressed the awards ceremony wearing traditional apache clothing.

>> the winner is marlon brando. [applause] >> accepting the award for marlon brando is sacheen littlefeather. >> hello. my name is sacheen littlefeather . i am apache and i'm president of the national native american affirmative indigenous community. i'm representing marlowe brando this evening and he has asked me to tell you in a very long speech, which i cannot share with you presently because of time, but i will be glad to share with the press afterwards, that he regretfully cannot accept this very generous award.

and the reasons for this being our the treatment of american indians today by the film industry -- excuse me. and on television and movie reruns and also with recent happenings at wounded knee. i they get this time that i have not intruded upon this evening and that we will in the future our hearts and our understandings will meet with love and generosity. thank you on behalf of on brando. [applause] amy: sacheen littlefeather. the actor john wayne reportedly attempted to remove sacheen littlefeather from the stage but was restrained by six security guards. clint eastwood mocked littlefeather later in the ceremony.

in august, the academy museum of motion pictures finally issued an apology to her. she spoke about the night 50 years ago when she arrived at the academy awards before that famous speech. >> it was about 20 minutes to 9:00. here are the sir carter guards -- here are the security guards. myself and a buckskin dress and the secretary dressed in an evening gown. we must have looked like the odd couple. [laughter] i'm sure they were wondering why we were just like that and why we were here. so the guards consulted.

the producer of the academy awards. he came out and he talked to us. the secretary had the official invitation from marlon brando. so he said, ok. he told me right then, if you read that speech and you go over 60 seconds, i will have you put in handcuffs. you see those policever there? i will have you arrested, put in jail. and he said, you have 60 seconds or less to represent marlon. i said, ok. and i had made this promise to

maon not to toucthat oscar. and so you can see i was not under any pressure that night. [laughter] [applause] i knew that the creator was with me. i had prayed to my ancestors to be with me that night. and it was with prayer that i went up there. i went up there like a proud indi woman, with dignity, with courage, with grace, and with humility. and as i began to walk up those steps, i knew that i had to speak e truth.

some people may accept it, and some people may not. amy: at the event in september, sacheen littlefeather went on to talk about the significance of receiving an apology from the academy. >> in regards to that apology, i want to say in 1973, i was a 26-yeaold ingenous woman, and member of the screen actors guild. very few people of color finding their way through an impractical society that deliberately set out to erase the existence and diversity of native peoples. through genocide, oppression,

and the unwavering efforts for indian self-determination, our generation remained hard at work and we were not the only ones. in 1973, i fulfilled the request of a friend d ally marlon brando asked that i attend the ceremony in his place and refuse the oscar for best actor for the role in "the godfather." and so i did. i knew the impact and the importance of representing all native people on that night. it was critical for all our relations to bring awareness and interrupt the negative interpretation and

representation of native american people by film, television, and sports industries. marlon and i knew it urgent to highlight the 1973 american indian movement, occupation of wounded knee south dakota. they were experiencing a media blackout, supposedly wounded knee, south dakota, was the site for u.s. missile base was going to be built. i, more than anyone, no the impact of what 60 seconds at the academy awas means then and now 50 years later. i had developed a strong sense of self, community, and a good sense of humor.

laughter isood medicine. i come from an industrial society where -- ancestral society where women are leaders, role models, teachers of peace. love, harmony, humilility, humanity, truth, conversation, and a coming together in her sacred circle of unity. others may choose to follow. i am here accepting this apology not only for me alone, but as acknowledgment knowing it was not only for me, but for all of our nations that also need to hear and deserve this apology

tonight. amy: sacheen littlefeather speaking in september. she died at the age of 75 on october 2. that does it for our show. we have two full-time job openings. and we welcome óróxór[r

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