Lakota Performers in Europe: Their Culture and the Artifacts They Left Behind california the Hampton Institute (Virginia)

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Lakota Performers in Europe: Their Culture and the Artifacts They Left Behind california the Hampton Institute (Virginia)From April to November 1935 in Belgium, fifteen Lakotas enacted their culture on a world stage. Wearing beaded moccasins and eagle feather headdresses, they set up tepees, danced, and demonstrated marksmanship and horse taming for the twenty million visitors to the Brussels International Exposition, a grand event similar to a world's fair. The performers then turned homeward, leaving behind 157 pieces of Lakota culture that they had used in the