In the 45th Academy Awards presentation on Tuesday, March 27, 1973, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, CA, Marlon Brando won the Best Actor Award for his role as Vito Corleone in “The Godfather” (1972). However, he sent Sacheen Littlefeather to receive the award in protest of the treatment of Native Americans. Later, in the Dick Cavett Show Marlon Brando explained the message he was trying to convey during the Oscar Awards night. Somehow in that interview this statement by Marlon Brando was the epiphany. It simply made perfect sense to me.
MARLON BRANDO: “Well, they say it’s the squeaky hinge that gets the grease. The Blacks will still be shuffling around picking peanuts. And dying and starving ‘coz they all haven’t been all that much improved if they haven’t made that noise, if they haven’t made that racket.
MARLON BRANDO: “If they just sit back and wait for White America to do something on their behalf, to recognize the rights of the people; to recognize the Sovereign rights of the Indians (Native Americans), as a separate, political, cultural entity within the confines of the United States, nothing’s gonna happen.”
This video is for educational purposes only.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSuxdpdUXSs
The complete Dick Cavett Show Marlon Brando – Interview (June 12, 1973)
In the complete interview below, it is at 40:13 where Marlon Brando starts talking about the need for Native Americans to take it upon ourselves to act and secure our right as a separate sovereign, political and cultural entity within the United States. But in our case we shall be under the personal protection and dominion of HM Queen Elizabeth II.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU-4wmwc2Rw
Photo 4: When Marlon Brando sent Sacheen Littlefeather to receive the Best Actor award in protest of the treatment of Native Americans, the audience booed and hissed.
Later , in the Dick Cavett Show Marlon Brando explained the message he was trying to convey during the Oscar Awards night through Sacheen Littlefeather.
Marlon Brando’s message is very clear: We shouldn’t rely on somebody else to do things for us. We have to lobby, among others, for whatever it is we want from the U.S. government even it is ours all along.
Marlon Brando interview on Dick Cavett Show, June 12, 1973
Photo 1: On Feb. 18, 1946, the 79th Congress overrode Pres. Truman’s veto and passed the Rescission Act of 1946 declaring that the service of over 260,000 Filipino WWII veterans were NOT ACTIVE military service. Then on July 4, 1946, the Treaty of Manila was signed, granting independence to the Philippines, a U.S. territory purchased from Spain for $20 million, along with Puerto Rico and Guam. As a result, an estimated 18.434 million Filipinos. lost their American Nationality including WWII veterans. After Filipino WWII veterans were stripped of their American Nationality, they were given up to Dec. 31, 1946 to apply for U.S. citizenship. But there’s a catch. Filipino WWII veterans must travel to the U.S.A. to apply for U.S. Citizenship.
Photo 1: Simeon Laure a Filipino WWII veteran traveled to the U.S.A. to apply for his American citizenship. Without any support, he ended up in a homeless shelter.
“I spent my second night in America in a homeless shelter. I have never been homeless in my whole life. At night I cry because of loneliness and remembering my family back home. Living in the shelter makes me tense and fearful.” – Simeon Laure
HAPPY FORGOTTEN VETERANS DAY MONTH!
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Photo 2: Celestino Almeda centinarian who received his civilian Gold Medal on Oct. 25, 2017. “MANY HAVE PASSED AWAY WAITING FOR 75 YEARS FOR THIS TO COME. I am Celestino Almeda, a 100-year-old Filipino WWII veteran, I have waited along with my fellow Filipino and American soldiers for this moment to come. After the war, THOUSANDS OF US FELL UNDERAPPRECIATED and UNRECOGNIZED FOR FIGHTING FOR OUR COUNTRY.”
Excerpt from Celestino Almeda’s speech on Oct. 25, 2017, U.S. Congress
Filipino WWII Vets Awarded Congressional Gold Medal (3:18)
HAPPY FORGOTTEN VETERANS DAY MONTH!
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Photo 3: Major Juan Pajota: Hero of the Raid on Cabanatuan Jan. 30, 1945.
“Forest had spent 7 years in the Philippines researching when he met Capt. Pajota who asked him to sponsor him to come to the U.S. so he could get his citizenship which was denied. He had been in the 45th Inf. PS and before the Invasion in Dec. 1941 Juan Pajota was detached as an Instructor to the 91st Division, 92nd Inf. Philippine Army along with my father, Lt. Robert Lee Morris, who was detached from the 31st Inf. Regt. He was my Dad’s best friend and also he saved my Dad’s life, so I am here to tell you the story of this true hero. ” – Emily Jean Morris, Dec. 23, 2014 to Battle of Bataan Facebook group
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10203459896886230&set=gm.10152920995512232&type=3&theater
IT WAS CAPT. PAJOTA WHO INSISTED THE RESCUE MISSION BE POSTPONED FOR 24 HOURS. Otherwise, it would have been suicide. Retreating Japanese troops were passing through Cabanatuan on the way north.
IT WAS CAPT. PAJOTA WHO SUGGESTED THE P-61 FLYOVER that distracted Japanese guards as American forces crawled towards the camp.
IT WAS CAPT. PAJOTA WHO CAME UP WITH 50 CARABAO-DRAWN CARTS TO TRANSPORT SICK AND WEAK OF THE 511 RESCUED POWs AND FACILITATE GOING BACK TO AMERICAN LINES.
Major Juan Pajota died on December 20, 1976 without receiving the U.S. citizenship he came to the U.S.A. for. Obviously he wanted to be a U.S. citizen so he could bring his family over and escape from the hell-on-earth a sovereign and independent Philippines has become.
The news about his death was published a year later. Friends had to solicit donations to pay for his funeral expenses.
Actual Footage taken after the raid at Cabanatuan, Philippines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63Fzw6_b7qA&feature=youtu.be
HAPPY FORGOTTEN VETERANS DAY MONTH!
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Photo 4: When Marlon Brando sent Sacheen Littlefeather to receive the Best Actor award in protest of the treatment of Native Americans, the audience booed and hissed.
Later , in the Dick Cavett Show Marlon Brando explained the message he was trying to convey during the Oscar Awards night through Sacheen Littlefeather.
Marlon Brando’s message was very clear: We shouldn’t rely on someone else to do things for us. We have to lobby, among others, for whatever it is we want from the U.S. government even it is ours all along.
Here’s the Oct. 24, 2016 reply from the U.S. Department of the Interior regarding the application guidelines for federal recognition of a Native American tribe. I received the same on Oct. 28, 2016. I have gone over the application process and the requirements. You could read the application requirements on the link below. I have highlighted the portions that apply to the Aldana-Quilatan Native American Tribe.
Application for Federal Acknowledgement of An American Indian Tribe
Application for Federal Acknowledgement of American Indian Tribe
https://www.nedmacario.us/2019/09/22/application-for-federal-acknowledgement-of-american-indian-tribe/
I have attended a webinar for the online Masters of Legal Studies in Indigenous Peoples’ Law, University of Oklahoma’s College of Law.
Included in the program is the processes and procedures how a federal recognized Native American tribe could go into the CASINO business.
Here’s University of Oklahoma’s College of Law website for M.L.S.
https://law.ou.edu/mls
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