2022 · In an article in the San Francisco Chronicle, Littlefeather’s sisters Rosalind Cruz and Trudy Orlandi said that their sister’s claim to have Apache and Yaqui ancestry through her father. 24 oct. 2022 · Trudy Orlandi and Rosalind Cruz claimed that their sister Sacheen Littlefeather — who famously refused Marlon Brando's Oscar on his behalf in 1973 — was an "ethnic fraud" and not Native.