Lakota Performers in Europe: Their Culture and the Artifacts They Left Behind california Richly layered illustrations connect past

Richly layered illustrations connect past and present

both Indigenous and European

The stories are presented in both English and Ojibwemowin with the goal of advancing language revitalization

The practitioner-theorists of this volume envision and labor toward decolonial futures where Indigenous peoples and nations exist on their own terms

Lakota Performers in Europe: Their Culture and the Artifacts They Left Behind california Richly layered illustrations connect pastFrom 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