John Wayne assaulted Sacheen Littlefeather?

[snopes]

Comment: Recently I watched a Marlon Brando biography on TV. There was
film footage of the Academy Award ceremony when Brando won an award, but
sent a Native American woman to the awards to read a statement about the
poor state of Indian affairs in America. Later she was interviewed years
after the fact and she made the claim that three large men had to restrain
John Wayne back stage to keep him from coming after her that night. True
or false?

[guruwan2b]

I was just looking this up and John Wayne was a presenter that year.

I found this on IMBD.com:
Godfather, The (1972) - Marlon Brando
- Refused to accept the award for the reason that the U.S. and especially Hollywood are discriminating Native American people. Brando did not show up at the ceremony, but instead sent a faked Indian woman named Sacheen Littlefeather who later turned out to be Maria Cruz, a less known Californian actress.

http://www.sacheenlittlefeather.net/pages/1/index.htm <--- She has a website if anyone wants to ask her....

Originally Posted by guruwan2b

I was just looking this up and John Wayne was a presenter that year.

I found this on IMBD.com:
Godfather, The (1972) - Marlon Brando
- Refused to accept the award for the reason that the U.S. and especially Hollywood are discriminating Native American people. Brando did not show up at the ceremony, but instead sent a faked Indian woman named Sacheen Littlefeather who later turned out to be Maria Cruz, a less known Californian actress.

http://www.sacheenlittlefeather.net/pages/1/index.htm <--- She has a website if anyone wants to ask her....

IMDB is wrong....
From Ms. Littlefeather's site:

Contrary to misinformation which has been published on the internet, Sacheen Littlefeather is indeed of true Native American Indian descent. Sacheen was born Marie Cruz in Salinas, California. Her mother is French-German-Dutch, and her father was from the White Mountain Apache and Yaqui tribes from Arizona. "Cruz" is her father's recognized tribe name. Sacheen took the name "Sacheen Littlefeather" after high school to reflect her natural heritage. She is not a "Mexican actress" as Roger Ebert incorrectly reported.