Education
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.
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.
Performed dances of the American Plains Indians during the 1930s, 40"s and 50"son Married to Gladys Laubin. The two lived in and extensively wrote about tipis and other structures and buildings used by Native Americans.
Reginald and Gladys were adopted by the Sioux tribe and were respectively given the names of Tatanka Wanjila (One Bulletin) 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, Illinois. The Spurlock Museum, opened in 2002, named its Laubin Gallery of American Indian Cultures in the couple"s honor.