Название: Lakota Performers in Europe: Their Culture and the Artifacts They Left Behind
Автор(ы): Steve Friesen and Francois Chladiuk
Издательство: University of Oklahoma Press
Год: 2017
ISBN: 978-0806156965
Страниц: 274
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 63 MB

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 exposition, ranging from costumery to weaponry. In Lakota Performers in Europe, author Steve Friesen tells the story of these artifacts, forgotten until recently, and of the Lakota performers who used them.