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Regional theater examines a legacy of living history:
Grandchildren of the Buffalo Soldiers by William Yellow Robe, Jr.
Tonight at 7:30, Sisseton Middle School
Adult tickets $5 at the door, students free.
The play opened at the Penumbra Theater in St. Paul in Sept. Tonight it begins its national tour.
It will be presented at the Washington Pavilion, Sioux Falls, Thursday through Sunday.
The buffalo soldiers of African American descent were an important presence in the West after the Civil War. This play explores the complex racial relationships between them, American Indians, and society at large.