Landa Lakes

Ballscene House Mother, Grand Dutchess and Miss Montana Two-Spirit Drag Queen Landa Lakes, (J Miko Thomas) will perform traditional Chickasaw Story and Dance that explores the current issue of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Femmes in the United States, Mexico and Canada. Through the arts of drag, traditional stories and memories of her upbringings, Land Lakes will show what it means to be Chickasaw, and further, a Native American Two-Spirit. This presentation will include dance films, Chickasaw stories, plays and children's dances. Through original music, lip sync and drag performance, Landa Lakes opens the stage for the embodiment of pain and resilience. These performances and offerings are a prayer to heal wounds and bring to light the importance of the intimate and vulnerable Two-Spirit stories. We will conclude with time for a Question-and-Answer session, to discuss Two-Spirit performance, and the futures of Indigenous people’s survivance.