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Indian Canoes Dot Cedar for Great Homecoming Pageant
A Waterloo Iowa pageant reenacts Black Hawk lore on Sans Souci shore with Indian maidens, tribal leaders, and the Sons of Black Hawk. A narrative of wooing, ritual, and death blends with electric lights, bands, and river launches as crowds watch the elaborate ceremony and initiation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Black Hawk
Sans Souci
Black Hawk, Jr
Jack Casebeer
Casebeer
Hosmer
Camp Fire Girls
Frank Brothers
Ki-Yi
Sons of the ‘Order of Black Hawk
A.B. Lovejoy
Waterloo
G. E. Bickley
Ernest Cass
W. F. Parrott
G. W. Huntley
G. EB. Brebner