Despite the damage caused by that night at the Oscars, Littlefeather’s activist work took off.
“The more Native American Indians like me speak up, the more we understand,” Littlefeather told KQED reporter Chloe Beltmann two years ago from her Marin County home. “Truth must defeat all the lies that have been told about us by dominant societies.”
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures will host a special event with Sachen Littlefeather on September 17th, featuring an official apology and celebration of Indigenous culture.
Also in June, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce’s Walk of Fame Selection Panel will highlight Juanita Moore, a revolutionary black actor who had minor, guest and starring roles from the 1930s to the early 2000s. Posthumous star inscribed on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Moore was a film, television and stage actress born in Greenwood, Mississippi and raised in Los Angeles. She appeared in over 80 of her films and TV shows, but many of the films she appeared in didn’t even feature her name in the credits.
Her portrayal of Annie Johnson in the 1959 film The Imitation of Life earned her an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress, making her the fifth black actor in filmmaking history to be nominated for an Academy Award. In the film, Annie is her mother and her fair-skinned daughter Sarah Jane rejects her black identity and tries to pass as white.
After Juanita Moore’s death eight years ago, Moore’s nephew, Arnett Moore, began asking her aunt to commemorate the Hollywood star on the iconic Walk of Fame.
“She was a trailblazer. She opened doors and today a lot of actors of color don’t have to deal with some of the things she dealt with,” says Arnett Moore. told California Report magazine last year..
Moore recently was given a star to Mississippi Arts and Entertainment Experience (MAX) Walk of Fame Meridian, Mississippi, featuring performance artists born in that state.
Her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is set to be installed in October 2023.