"Lakota Sioux Indian Dance Theatre has been performing and educating audiences for over three decades. The company communicates the powerful messages and resonance of dance and songs in Plains Indian society – at the center of a living history and oral tradition in American Indian society. Featuring narratives, creation stories, original video imagery and more than 20 traditional and sacred songs and dances, the company will perform at 1:30 p.m. April 15 at Wharton Center's Cobb Great Hall. Tickets are on sale now by visiting whartoncenter.com, the Auto-Owners Ticket Office or by calling 1-800-WHARTON.

The program takes the audience through a series of dances that are performed within the Lakota Sioux Tribe. The Lakota were originally referred to as the Dakota when they lived by the Great Lakes. Encroaching European-American settlement led them to migrate west from the Great Lakes region. They later called themselves the Lakota, and were also called Sioux by the French. They were introduced to horse culture by the Cheyenne tribe in about 1730."

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