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Black Ellk Spears
Black Elk Speaks is a play about the history of the relations between American Indians and Europeans from the first contacts to the present. My first thoughts of being assigned to attend the show were not very positive. I expected to endure an evening of hell with my sanity preserved solely by intermission and the f ....
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.... one Indian changed characters to a different Indian I often could not tell. Another problem was that names were not spoken out loud directly to the characters. This created mass confusion in my mind. I understood the stories, but I often had trouble deciding who the characters were. The directorial concept of this production was interesting. Martinez played on the horrible things that happened to the Indians. She used many different tools to get her ideas across to the audience. She used a little girl as one of the Indians. This made the killin ....
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