En Route to Lakota understanding Workshop shares cultural touchstones Arts South Dakota partnered with CAIRNS, the Center for American Indian Research and Native Studies, for En Route, a three-day traveling workshop led by Dr. Craig Howe and CAIRNS educators on Native Lands and Arts June 24-26. The idea of being “en route” grows from the premise that peoples and places are interwoven in a complex relationship. The geographic focus of the workshop was a small portion of the traditional homelands of the Lakota people, including Mato Paha (Bear Butte), Cankpe Opi (Wounded Knee), Wasun Niya (Wind Cave) and Pe’Sla (Reynolds Prairie). The intention of the workshop structure was to encourage critical thinking about the intersections of Lakota history, culture, land and art on the one hand, and non-Lakota perspectives of important places and events on the other. The goal is always for a more nuanced awareness of the broader historical and contemporary relationships between American Indians and non-Indians, through an experience of Lakota arts, land and culture.
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