Reginald Laubin
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Reginald Laubin was an American
writer
, dancer and expert on Native American culture and customs.
Mr. Laubin and his wife, Gladys, with whom he performed, were not Native American, but they studied Native American dance and culture with Sioux, Crow, Cheyenne and other Plains Indians. Reginald and Gladys were adopted by the Sioux tribe and were respectively given the names of Tatanka Wanjila (One Bull) and Wiyaka Wastewin (Good Feather Woman). The two later lived with the Crow tribe in the state of Montana.
The Laubins performed and gave lecture demonstrations throughout the United States and around the world in front of all manner of audiences.
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The Spurlock Museum
, opened in 2002, named its Laubin Gallery of American Indian Cultures in the couple's honor.
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writer
Writer
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, dancer and expert on Native American culture and customs.
Biography
Performed dances of the American Plains Indians during the 1930s, 40's and 50's. Married to Gladys Laubin. The two lived in and extensively wrote about tipis and other structures and buildings used by Native Americans.Mr. Laubin and his wife, Gladys, with whom he performed, were not Native American, but they studied Native American dance and culture with Sioux, Crow, Cheyenne and other Plains Indians. Reginald and Gladys were adopted by the Sioux tribe and were respectively given the names of Tatanka Wanjila (One Bull) and Wiyaka Wastewin (Good Feather Woman). The two later lived with the Crow tribe in the state of Montana.
The Laubins performed and gave lecture demonstrations throughout the United States and around the world in front of all manner of audiences.
Death and afterward
Laubin died on Wednesday, April 5, 2000 at a hospital in Urbana, IllinoisUrbana, Illinois
Urbana is the county seat of Champaign County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 41,250. Urbana is the tenth-most populous city in Illinois outside of the Chicago metropolitan area....
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The Spurlock Museum
Spurlock Museum
The William R. and Clarice V. Spurlock Museum, better known as the Spurlock Museum, is an ethnographic museum at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign...
, opened in 2002, named its Laubin Gallery of American Indian Cultures in the couple's honor.
Partial bibliography
- The Indian Tipi,, (with Reginald Laubin & Gladys Laubin, University of Oklahoma PressUniversity of Oklahoma PressThe University of Oklahoma Press is the publishing arm of the University of Oklahoma. It has been in operation for over seventy-five years, and was the first university press established in the American Southwest. It was founded by William Bennett Bizzell, the fifth president of the University of...
, Norman, 1957 - Indian Dances of North America, (with Reginald Laubin & Gladys Laubin, University of Oklahoma PressUniversity of Oklahoma PressThe University of Oklahoma Press is the publishing arm of the University of Oklahoma. It has been in operation for over seventy-five years, and was the first university press established in the American Southwest. It was founded by William Bennett Bizzell, the fifth president of the University of...
, Norman, 1977 - American Indian Archery, (with Reginald Laubin & Gladys Laubin, University of Oklahoma PressUniversity of Oklahoma PressThe University of Oklahoma Press is the publishing arm of the University of Oklahoma. It has been in operation for over seventy-five years, and was the first university press established in the American Southwest. It was founded by William Bennett Bizzell, the fifth president of the University of...
, Norman, 1980