Brando cites Indians
NZPA Washinglot The actor, Marlon Brando, participating in an American Indian demonstration, has said President Carter should not
criticise human-rights violations in foreign countries while the Federal Government continues to oppress native Americans. Dressed in a grey business suit, Brando told an Indian rally it would be “inappropriate for me now to try and convey what it is that the Indian people have suffered since the white man came here.” But he added: “I was astounded that the Secretary of State, the President, and the Vice-Presi-dent can talk about human rights violations abroad, while we are the last country in the world to give up our colonial control over people controlled by force.”
Long an advocate of American Indian rights, Brando drew a loud response from the crowd when he said: “The original people of this country were swindled, were murdered like animals.” Brando said he felt an obligation as an actor to try to conyey to the public what actually had happened to the American Indian.
He said he planned to make movies “made with Indians, by Indians, for Indians,” to get that message across.
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Press, 17 July 1978, Page 9
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