Lakota Performers in Europe: Their Culture and the Artifacts They Left Behind

by Steve Friesen

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806156961
• ISBN13: 9780806156965
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 3.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.8" x 11.2"