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By her own testimony, much of it said to be given here for the first time, Sacheen Littlefeather was a deeply troubled soul who struggled mightily with issues of identity and acceptance. She was, by her own account, a diagnosed schizophrenic who spent a year in a mental hospital after a suicide attempt around the age of 19. She described the institution as "really a hell hole, 'Cuckoo's Nest.'" For nearly two months, she was catatonic, she said. Voices had pushed her toward suicide. A pair of doctors, whose names she did not disclose, used a terrifying regimen of "psychodrama"—they played her parents, while black-hooded figures listened in a dim-lit room—to help her reconstruct memories of childhood abuse and abandonment. She was on Thorazine then, and other meds later, Littlefeather told Stewart. There was a later episode, but she mostly stabilized with much help from a San Francisco Bay Area Native American community...
She worked with Mother Teresa's Gift of Love Center in San Francisco and learned deep-tissue therapy and shiatsu massage techniques.
That Littlefeather was later identified as Maria Cruz, an actress who was not an Indian, only compounded his notoriety. [See clarification below on Ms. Littlefeather.]
By her own testimony, much of it said to be given here for the first time, Sacheen Littlefeather was a deeply troubled soul who struggled mightily with issues of identity and acceptance. She was, by her own account, a diagnosed schizophrenic who spent a year in a mental hospital after a suicide attempt around the age of 19. She described the institution as "really a hell hole, 'Cuckoo's Nest.'" For nearly two months, she was catatonic, she said. Voices had pushed her toward suicide. A pair of doctors, whose names she did not disclose, used a terrifying regimen of "psychodrama"—they played her parents, while black-hooded figures listened in a dim-lit room—to help her reconstruct memories of childhood abuse and abandonment. She was on Thorazine then, and other meds later, Littlefeather told Stewart. There was a later episode, but she mostly stabilized with much help from a San Francisco Bay Area Native American community...
She worked with Mother Teresa's Gift of Love Center in San Francisco and learned deep-tissue therapy and shiatsu massage techniques.
That Littlefeather was later identified as Maria Cruz, an actress who was not an Indian, only compounded his notoriety. [See clarification below on Ms. Littlefeather.]
