The Lone Dog Winter Count - PowerPoint Presentation

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The Lone Dog Winter Count

Winter

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Winter Count: Cloud Shield (1840 – 1841)

They stole many horses from the Snakes [Shoshoni].

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American Horse says that his father, Sitting Bear, and others stole 200 horses from the Flatheads (Corbusier 1886:140). American Horse has this for 1840-41, too. For 1841-42 see also: Rosebud, Flame, Lone Dog, Major Bush, No Ears, and Swan… Visit

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Winter Count: Flame (1843 – 1844)

Buffalo is scarce; an Indian makes

medicine

and brings them to the suffering.

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Mato

Sapa

says: Dakotas were starving; made medicine to Great Spirit by painting buffalo head on their lodges; plenty came (

Mallery

1886:118-19).

See

Rosebud,

Lone

Dog, and Swan. … Visit

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Winter Count: Swan (1859 – 1860)

A Minneconjou Dakota, named Big Crow

,

was

killed by the Crow Indians.

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Notes: He had received his name from killing a Crow Indian of unusual size (

Mallery

1886:123). Several other calendars record this man's death. See also Good, Flame, Lone Dog,

Major

Bush, and No Ears.

Rosebud

marks

it as 1860-61. Visit

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Winter Count: : Battiste Good (1877 – 1878)

Crazy Horse came to make peace and

was

killed with his hands stretched out winter.

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Notes:

This refers to the well-known killing of the chief Crazy Horse while a prisoner (

Mallery

1893:327). The Oglala warrior was killed when taken into custody at Fort Robinson, Nebraska. See also American Horse, Cloud Shield

, No

Ears,

and… Visit

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Winter Count: Long Soldier (1880 – 1881)

Soldiers fired into Sioux and captured Indians

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Infantry

, artillery and cavalry represented.

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Winter Count: Rosebud (1880 – 1881)

Children sent to school.

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Notes:

Battiste

Good records this event for the previous year, as do the counts of

Firethunder

and Wounded

Bear. This

may note the first time

Sicangu

children were sent to school, as indicated by the human figures inside a log building.

See

Good's winter count. Visit

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to

view additional winter counts. Slide8

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Winter Count: Cloud Shield (1788 – 1789)

The winter was so cold that crows froze to death.

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Several counts mark this year when the winter was so cold, crows froze, including Rosebud, Flame, Good and White Cow Killer. White Cow Killer calls it "Many-black-crows-died winter" (Corbusier 1886:132). American Horse

and

No

Ears mark it for the following

year 1789-90. Visit

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additional winter counts. Slide9

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Winter Count: : Lone Dog (1800 – 1801)

Thirty Dakotas were killed by Crow Indians.

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Notes: The

device consists of thirty parallel lines in three columns, the outer lines being united. In this chart, such black lines always signify the death of Dakotas killed by their enemies. The Absaroka or Crow tribe, although belonging to the Siouan [language] family, has nearly always been

at

war

with the

Dakotas… Visit

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Winter Count: Lone Dog (1803 – 1804)

They stole some "curly horses" from the Crows.

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Notes

: Some

of these horses are still on the plains, the hair growing in closely curling tufts. The device is a horse with black marks for the tufts. The

Crows

are known to have been early

in

the possession of horses

(

Mallery

1893:273

). White

Cow

Killer calls

it… Visit

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for

additional

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Winter Count: Flame (1813-1814)

Many Indians died of cold (consumption)

(

Mallery

1886:108).

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Notes: Most accounts agree that the disease was whooping cough. The discrepancy between diseases may simply be one of translation. Some diseases were new to the Indians, having been brought to North America inadvertently by

Europeans.

Because

these were new

illnesses, Indian people… Visit

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Smithsonian: Natural Museum of Natural History

Lakota Winter Counts -An Online Exhibit-

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Lesson and PowerPoint provided by:

South

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Education

& South Dakota Public Broadcasting