Year the Stars Fell Lakota Winter Counts at the Smithsonian

Name: Year the Stars Fell Lakota Winter Counts at the Smithsonian
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ISBN: 9780803222113

ISBN-10: 0803222114

ISBN-13: 9780803222113

Edition: 2007

Authors: Candace S. Greene, Russell Thornton, Russell Thornton

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Winter counts--pictorial calendars by which Plains Indians kept track of their past--marked each year with a picture of a memorable event. The Lakota, or Western Sioux, recorded many different events in their winter counts, but all include "the year the stars fell, " the spectacular Leonid meteor shower of 1833-34. This volume is an unprecedented assemblage of information on the important collection of Lakota winter counts at the Smithsonian, a core resource for the study of Lakota history and culture. Fourteen winter counts are presented in detail, with a chapter devoted to the newly discovered Rosebud Winter Count. Together these counts constitute a visual chronicle of over two hundred…

Book details

List price: $49.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 6/1/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 377
Size: 8.33" wide x 10.28" long x 1.27" tall
Weight: 2.486
Language: English



Preface



Preface




Waniyetu Wowapi: An Introduction to the Lakota Winter Count Tradition




Winter Counts in the Smithsonian




The Rosebud Winter Count




Winter by Winter




Calendars from Other Plains Tribes



Afterword: Tasunka Ota Win Waniyetu Wowapi (Her Many Horses Winter Count)



Bibliography


Index