Publisher's Synopsis
From April to November 1935 in Belgium, 15 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 20 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. Here, author Steve Friesen tells the story of these artefacts, forgotten until recently, and of the Lakota performers who used them.
