UPDATE: On June 6, 2011, prosecutors dismissed a charge against both the actress and her mother after they completed community service.
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If the point of a protest is to draw attention to a cause, well, mission accomplished here.
Q'orianka Kilcher, the now 20-year-old actress who played Pocahontas to Colin Farrell's John Smith in Terrence Malick's The New World, has been charged with disorderly conduct after chaining herself to a White House fence in protest of the Peruvian government's selling of land to oil companies.
But Kilcher, whose father is a Peruvian Indian, wasn't taken into custody until she'd added some substance to her argument.
No, the arrest occurred after Kilcher's mother poured a thick black liquid over her daughter, apparently to represent the petroleum at the root of their protest.
Kilcher's mother has been charged with defacing government property. Authorities later determined that the liquid was a nontoxic paint.
President Obama was in the White House at the time, meeting with the president of Peru, Alan Garcia, Secret Service spokesman Max Milien told the Washington Post.
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We're gonna go out on a limb and say Q'orianka's heart was in the right place, just like the celebs in our Do-Gooder Gallery.