Her name was Marie Louise Cruz. But to the world she was known as Sacheen Littlefeather, a name she adopted as a young, self-proclaimed activist in the tumultuous years of the Indian rights movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Or perhaps “Sacheen” was the name was given to her by her father. Maybe it was even bestowed upon her by other Native people. So what’s the truth?
