Sacheen Littlefeather: Activist who rejected Marlon Brando’s Oscar and worked in AIDS hospice dies

Actor and civil rights activist Sacheen Littlefeather, who famously rejected Marlon Brando’s Oscar on his behalf, has died aged 75.

Littlefeather died on Sunday (2 October) at home, surrounded by loved ones. She had been diagnosed with breast cancer in 2018, and announced it had metastasised and become terminal in an interview with The Guardian last year.