 |
| Russell Means and Marlon Brando Marlon Brando gives back 40 acres to Native Americans video |
 |
Article by Brenda Norrell
Censored News
During the broadcast of Coffee with My Ma, Kahentinetha's daughter, actress Kaniehtiio Horn, asks Kahentinetha about her time with Marlon Brandon, wondering what happened between the famous Marlon and her mom. The episode is Ma Clears the Air about Marlon Brando.
Kahentinetha shares her memories of the sincere actor.
"He was very committed to helping us," she said, remembering his support of Natives in the fishing rights struggle in Oregon and Washington.
"He called me," she said, of the phone call to her home on Mohawk land. Marlon asked her to come and visit him in Hollywood and offered to send her an airline ticket.
"He was so handsome."
Kahentinetha was in her mid-20s when she went to San Francisco, and on to southern California, to share an evening with Marlon at his home in Hollywood.
"Jane Fonda was involved with us. I love Jane Fonda," Kahentinetha said remembering Fonda's involvement in the Red Power Movement in the 60s.
"She stuck her neck out for us. I respect her for that," she said recalling how Fonda was blacklisted.
Marlon told Kahentinetha that she could stay in San Francisco at Eugene Burdick's home, with Burdick and his wife. Burdick authored the Ugly American, and Marlon and starred in the film based on the novel.
Marlon sent a limousine for Kahentinetha to travel from San Francisco to Hollywood. His home had low tables, like a Japanese home.
"It was very nice," Kahentinetha recalls. "He was very, very handsome."
"I could tell by his eyes he was a very sincere person."
Marlon asked her about her family and told her about his family.
"He was interested in Mohawks and the Great Law."
This was in the 1960s before Marlon sent Sacheen Little Feather to the Oscars to decline Brando's Oscar for the Godfather.
"He was very humble," Kahentinetha remembers. "He was a smart, very intelligent guy."
But if he wanted to, he could tear down people.
During the visit, Marlon asked her if she wanted to go for a swim.
"He was very fit at that time," she says, adding that after swimming, there was a meal.
"Marlon chose to fight for us," Kahentinetha said remembering him and the calls that followed. "I really respected him."
During the talk show program with her daughter, Kahentinetha mentions her trip to Cuba in 1959, and meetings with the Black Panthers and Chicanos during those days of the Red Power Movement.
As the podcast begins, Kahentinetha shares how Marlon sent Sacheen LIttleFeather to accept his Oscar for the Godfather. Marlon said he regretfully could not accept the Oscar because of the treatment of American Indians by the film industry and reminds the audience of the recent Wounded Knee in 1973.
Daughter Kaniehtiio Horn begins the show by saying, "In today's episode I sit down with Ma and she explains what really went down back in the 60s when Marlon (first name basis oh la la) called her up outta the blue in Kahnawake. She gives us the scoop on her first trip to Hollywood, what Marlon's villa looked like, and how she rubbed elbows with stars like Eugene Burdick at a political fundraiser in San Fran!"
Listen to the full story of Kahentinetha's visit with Marlon Brandon at his home in the 60s, and hear all the details, at Coffee with Me and Ma.
A little more of the evening with Marlon Brando is shared in an article on Mohawk Nation News, published by Kahentinetha: Mohawk Nation News in 2014.
Read and listen to more at Censored News from Coffee with My Ma: 'Ma Goes to Cuba, Just to See'
Kahentinetha Horn is a member of the Mohawk Wolf Clan of Kahnawake.
"Marlon chose to fight for us," Kahentinetha said remembering him and the calls that followed. "I really respected him."
During the talk show program with her daughter, Kahentinetha mentions her trip to Cuba in 1959, and meetings with the Black Panthers and Chicanos during those days of the Red Power Movement.
As the podcast begins, Kahentinetha shares how Marlon sent Sacheen LIttleFeather to accept his Oscar for the Godfather. Marlon said he regretfully could not accept the Oscar because of the treatment of American Indians by the film industry and reminds the audience of the recent Wounded Knee in 1973.
Daughter Kaniehtiio Horn begins the show by saying, "In today's episode I sit down with Ma and she explains what really went down back in the 60s when Marlon (first name basis oh la la) called her up outta the blue in Kahnawake. She gives us the scoop on her first trip to Hollywood, what Marlon's villa looked like, and how she rubbed elbows with stars like Eugene Burdick at a political fundraiser in San Fran!"
Listen to the full story of Kahentinetha's visit with Marlon Brandon at his home in the 60s, and hear all the details, at Coffee with Me and Ma.
A little more of the evening with Marlon Brando is shared in an article on Mohawk Nation News, published by Kahentinetha: Mohawk Nation News in 2014.
Read and listen to more at Censored News from Coffee with My Ma: 'Ma Goes to Cuba, Just to See'
 |
| Coffee with My Ma |
 |
| Kahentinetha Horn |
Biography
In the 1960s and early 1970s, Kahn-Tineta Horn became widely known for her criticisms of anti-native racism and government policy regarding First Nations peoples, and for her advocacy of native separatism. "She was involved in the 1962 Conference on Indian Poverty in Washington D.C., the blocking of the International Bridge at Akwesasne in 1968, and other indigenous rights campaigns."[7]Kahn-Tineta caught the attention of the media in 1964, when she was "deposed as a Director of the National Indian Council, and as Indian Princess of Canada."[8] By 1972, her separatist views had appeared in the pages of The Harvard Crimson and The New Yorker,[9][10][11] and she had been interviewed by The Webster Reports of KVOS-TV, a Bellingham, Washington station which broadcasts to Vancouver, British Columbia.[12]
Horn and her daughters were notable participants in the 1990 Oka Crisis.[13][14] Her daughter, Waneek Horn-Miller (born 1975), was stabbed in the chest by a soldier's bayonet while holding her younger sister, then aged 4; a photograph of the incident, published on the front page of newspapers, symbolized the standoff between Mohawks and the Canadian government.[15] Waneek became a broadcaster, and co-captain of Canada's first women's national water polo team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.[16] Horn's youngest daughter, Kaniehtiio Horn, also present at the Oka Crisis, is a film and television actress.[17]
Read more at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahn-Tineta_Horn
.
.
 |
| Read more: https://www.historylink.org/File/5332 |
.
