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The Lone Dog Winter Count
Winter Counts (a closer look) - PowerPoint
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You will be shown textual representations of winter count images. Draw an image of the event described. Compare/contrast your drawing with the original
keeper of the winter count. Good Luck!
Winter Counts (a closer look) - PowerPoint
Winter Count: American Horse (Year: 1830–1831)
They saw wagons for the first time.
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Notes: Red Lake, a white trader, brought goods in the wagons (Corbusier 1886:138).
Winter Counts (a closer look) - PowerPoint
Winter Count: American Horse (1828 – 1829)
They had much antelope meat; hunted by driving the animals into a corral.
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Notes: They provided themselves with a large supply of antelope meat by driving antelope into a corral, in which they were easily
killed (Corbusier 1886:138). Cloud Shield marks the same event, but
White Cow Killer calls this year "Many-Rees killed winter"
(Corbusier 1886:138).
Winter Counts (a closer look) - PowerPoint
Winter Count: American Horse (1825 – 1826)
Dakotas living south of Whetstone Agency killed when the Missouri River flooded.
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Notes: Some of the Dakotas were living on the bottomlands of the Missouri River, below the Whetstone, when the river,
which was filled with broken ice, unexpectedly rose and flooded their
village. Many were drowned or else killed by the floating ice. Many of those that escaped climbed on cakes of ice or into trees (Corbusier 1886:137)… Visit http://
wintercounts.si.edu/index.html for additional information.
Winter Counts (a closer look) - PowerPoint
Winter Count: Swan (1833 – 1834)
Dakotas witnessed magnificent meteoricshowers; much terrified.
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Notes: ...All the winter counts [Flame, Lone Dog, Major Bush, Mato Sapa, Swan,
American Horse, Cloud Shield, Good, White Cow Killer] refer to this meteoric display (Mallery 1886:116). The Swan and Major Bush counts are the only to note that this fantastic occurrence frightened people. … Visit http://wintercounts.si.edu/index.html
for additional information.
Winter Counts (a closer look) - PowerPoint
Winter Count: Swan (1833 – 1834)
Dakotas witnessed magnificent meteoricshowers; much terrified.
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Notes: ...All the winter counts [Flame, Lone Dog, Major Bush, Mato Sapa, Swan,
American Horse, Cloud Shield, Good, White Cow Killer] refer to this meteoric display (Mallery 1886:116). The Swan and Major Bush counts are the only to note that this fantastic occurrence frightened people. … Visit http://wintercounts.si.edu/index.html
for additional notes.
Swan
Additional (1833-1834) Winter Count Keeper images of the meteor shower
American Horse
Rosebud
Lone Dog
Winter Counts (a closer look) - PowerPoint
Winter Count: Long Soldier (1825 – 1826)
Year that ice broke causing flood and nearly half of camp drowned.
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Notes: Many other calendars mark this same event; see American Horse, Rosebud,
Cloud Shield, Good, Flame, Lone Dog, Major Bush, No Ears, Swan, and White Cow Killer who calls it "Great-flood-and-many-
Indians-drowned winter" (Corbusier 1886:137-38).Visit http://
wintercounts.si.edu/index.html to view additional winter counts.
Winter Counts (a closer look) - PowerPoint
Winter Count: American Horse (1799 - 1800)
The Good-White-Man returned and gave guns to the Dakotas.
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Notes: The circle of marks represents the people sitting around him, the flint lock
musket the guns. White Cow Killer says, "The-Good-White-Man-came winter"
(Corbusier 1886:134). See Rosebud (1792-93 or 1793-94), Cloud Shield (1786-87),
Flame (1794-95), Good (1793-94), No Ears (1795-96) and
White Cow Killer (1794-95).
Winter Counts (a closer look) - PowerPoint
Winter Count: Cloud Shield (1778 – 1779)
Many of their horses were killed.
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Many of their horses were killed, but by whom is not known (Corbusier 1886:131).
American Horse recorded this event for the year 1776-77. Visit http://wintercounts.si.edu/index.html
to view additional winter counts.
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Winter Count: Cloud Shield (1807 – 1808)
Many people camped together and had many flags flying.
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Notes: This may mark the time when the Lewis and Clark Expedition came
through Lakota Territory; seeAmerican Horse 1805-06. Visit
http://wintercounts.si.edu/index.html to view additional winter counts.
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Winter Count: Long Soldier (1837 – 1838)
Small pox year.
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Notes: See Rosebud for this year. Visit http://wintercounts.si.edu/index.html
to view additional winter counts.
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Winter Count: Lone Dog (1845 – 1846)
Plenty of buffalo meat, which is representedas hung upon poles and trees to dry.
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Notes: This device has become the conventional sign for plenty and
frequently appears in the several charts (Mallery 1893:282). There are actually
two devices that Lakotas used to indicate successful hunts and plenty of
meat; one is this image of strips of meat on a drying rack, and the other… Visit http://wintercounts.si.edu/index.html
for additional information.
The Lone Dog Winter Count
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Content provided by:Smithsonian: Natural Museum of Natural History
Lakota Winter Counts -An Online Exhibit- http://wintercounts.si.edu/index.html
Lesson and PowerPoint provided by:South Dakota Office of Indian Education
& South Dakota Public Broadcasting