Black Hawk Performance Company Stages 1-Hour Native Dance at Obama Center as 'Stolen Land' Debate Swirls
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Updated · Fox News · Jun 20
Black Hawk Performance Company Stages 1-Hour Native Dance at Obama Center as 'Stolen Land' Debate Swirls
1 articles · Updated · Fox News · Jun 20
Summary
Hundreds watched the Black Hawk Performance Company perform a roughly 1-hour Native American dance and drum-circle program Saturday at the Obama Presidential Center's opening weekend in Chicago.
The show followed Thursday's opening ceremony, where Obama Foundation CEO Valerie Jarrett acknowledged the site as land of the Anishinaabe, Ojibwe, Odawa and Potawatomi nations.
Some Saturday performers were Ojibwe, and the plaza program included traditional dances, songs and a tribute to the Native American flag before audience members joined near the end.
The center's land acknowledgment and an on-site placard about reversing settler colonialism drew online mockery and conservative criticism, sharpening attention on the $850 million project's opening.