Clara traveled on the steam liner Anchoria in 1899 to attend the International Council of Women in London, England. Always the kind and educating mother, Clara showed Zintka the sights of London. Still considered an oddity and commodity, Zintka's unique personage was used on at least one occasion by Clara, to catch a quick glimpse of the Prince of Wales.

At the Greater London Exposition, Zintka floated on a boat through a manmade attraction from Canada. The tour whisked her through "The Cave of the Winds," billed as the haunted place of Indian Spirits in America's Northwest. In fact, the Cave of the Winds referred to her own Lakota peoples, the place from which her people emerged to live with the Great Beast in the Black Hills area. Even in "proper England," Zintka was fed lies about her heritage.

The Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, NY took place in 1900, and again Clara was there to campaign for Suffrage. As she had snuck into the back alleys of Washington, 10-year old Zintka disappeared herself once again. She was drawn inexplicably to the sound of drums, pulling her through the noisy chaos of the Expo. Clara found her at last, transfixed by the music and dance of the Indian Congress. There was Geronimo, and her Lakota kinsmen, a community that she longed more and more to be a part of. Clara had to pull Zintka away physically from her people, just as she had been taken from them so many years ago.

Clara tried always to be a nurturing, compassionate mother to Zintka. But this did not prevent her from being as blinded from the truth as other White Men. In regards to the presentation of indigenous custom and dance Buffalo, she wrote: