WitnessWinner of the 2015 J. Franklin Jameson Award Winner of the 2014 Dwight L. Smith (ABC CLIO) Award Winner of the 2014 Nebraska Book Award in Nonfiction Reference During the 1920s and 1930s, Josephine Waggoner (18711943), a Lakota woman who had been educated at Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in Virginia, grew increasingly concerned that the history and culture of her people were being lost as elders died without passing along their knowledge.