Blog Post #6

                   During the battle of wounded knee, the Academy awards were taking place. Marlon Brando, won the award for best actor in his role in the movie The Godfather. But in protest to the treatment of native Americans in film he sent Sacheen Littlefeather, a Native American actress, who was dressed in traditional Indian clothes, to the stage to refuse the statue and inform the crowd of why, but she was only given 60 seconds and would be arrested if she had gone over it. While all this was going on there was a battle between the Lakota tribe and the FBI, Called Wounded Knee. But instead of horses there were tanks to help the FBI take out the Lakota tribe.