Tracking the 'year of the falling stars'.(WEB)

The Christian Science Monitor;  May 16, 2005 ;     700+ words ......resulting Lakota Winter Counts form the basis...rest of you), Winter Counts holds examples...event worthy of winter count designation...from the sky,' Winter Counts then presents...exploration. View Winter Counts unfolds a sheet...images of ten ...

New Smithsonian Web site explores Winter Counts

The Native Voice;  September 2, 2005 ;     284 words ......technologies with the newest. "Winter Counts," found at www.wintercounts...as a book project, "Winter Counts" was expanded into an...lacking was content." Winter Counts were used by tribes...different versions of the Winter Count as source material...Dog, a Yanktonai. ...

Lakota elders share wisdom, winter counts: In hands-on workshops

Indian Country Today (Lakota Times);  January 4, 1999 ;     700+ words ......the traditional winter count with their takojas...keepers of the winter counts and bring many...tradition and winter counts place the Lakota...Battiste Good winter count records that the...traditional parenting, winter count curriculum, ...

Sioux Winter Count: A 131-Year Calendar of Events.(Book Review)

Whispering Wind;  September 1, 2004 ;     416 words ...Sioux Winter Count: A 131-Year Calendar of Events by...knowledge to a much wider audience. Winter Counts were the means by which Native Americans...Appendices include descriptions of other winter counts, pictorial patterns most likely encountered...

ANTHROPOLOGIST FOCUSED ON PRESERVING INDIAN LANGUAGES TO PRESENT MARCH 1...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  February 26, 2007 ;     284 words ......public. Demaille will present "Lakota Winter Counts and the Cultural Interpretation of...for a native history. One of the winter count keepers created as well a history...but generations. Study of these winter counts by anthropologists began in the 1870s...since. This lecture will ...

More snow could help in tracking Iowa deer this season; Wildlife...

Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  February 20, 2005 ;     601 words ......could be enough to let wildlife biologists wrap up those winter counts, a key element in the formula to track deer numbers in a...sharpshooting program sometimes preceded and sometimes followed the winter counts. This month, for instance, sharpshooters killed 154 deer...

LIFE, WEATHER INTERTWINED.(Editorial)

The Capital Times (Madison, WI);  December 14, 2000 ;     651 words ......hides and later on pages torn from ledger books. Called ``winter counts,'' they showed what happened from year to year, sometimes...evocative visual histories. I've always been drawn to the idea of winter counts -- keeping track of the years by focusing on one event. But...

'WINTER COUNT' By DALLAS CHIEF EAGLE

Indian Country Today (Lakota Times);  September 10, 2003 ;     566 words ......Times) 09-10-2003 LINCOLN, Neb. - A winter count was an American Indian memory device...from one generation to the next. Each winter count was a "calendar" composed by pictographs...year. Turtleheart, the protagonist of "Winter Count," receives both his tribal band's winter...

Spectacular Leonid Meteor Shower Takes a Year Off

Albuquerque Journal;  November 11, 2004 ;     700+ words ......Great Plains saw the Lion's roar, and recorded it in their Winter Counts, chronological records drawn on tanned hides and kept by tribal historians. The names of the Winter Counts tell the true story of Leo's great roar: "It rained stars...

What moments will you choose for your 'winter count'?(OPINION)

The Christian Science Monitor;  December 30, 2005 ;     623 words ......first snowfall with what they called the winter count. They marked the passing of time and...synchronized time and meaning. What would the winter count for our school look like? I asked my...native Americans, contemplated their own winter count after we looked at a Lakota example...

Robins (yes, robins) and others stay for warm winter Birds of a feather...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  January 8, 2007 ;     700+ words ......weather to prolong their stay here. The tradition of early winter counts began on Christmas Day 1900 with Wetmore and others across...Domagalski, a former beekeeper and compiler of all the early winter counts in Wisconsin. Bird census-takers descended on an estimated...

Philbrook Adds Curator of Native American & Non-Western Art.

PR Newswire;  August 16, 2006 ;     402 words ......defending her PhD dissertation on Lakota Ledger Drawings and Winter Counts at Indiana University. Her publications include: The Year The Stars Fell: Lakota Winter Counts at the Smithsonian (forthcoming); essays in Donald Ruleaux...exhibition catalogues; and Collecting Lakota Histories: ...

Once upon a time in the west.(One Vast Winter Count: The Native American...

American Scholar;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...ONE VAST WINTER COUNT: THE NATIVE AMERICAN WEST BEFORE...unfamiliar native perspective. In One Vast Winter Count, Calloway approaches his subject...settlement in North America. The winter count of the title refers to the pictures...

Game makes Metis history fun to learn

Alberta Sweetgrass;  October 31, 1999 ;     465 words ......children. The new game, called the Mtis Winter Count Game, is based on the tradition of recording...pictographs painted on animal hides. "[The winter count] is like a time-line," said game co...the Sioux and Blackfoot. In the Mtis Winter Count Game, players try to match symbols and...

MAKING HISTORY COME ALIVE

Post-Tribune (IN);  November 25, 1999 ;     700+ words ......or villages: Candlemaking Village, Winter Count Village, Doll Making Village and Quill...go out," said a proud Evan Ardeleanu. Winter Count Village taught the children about the...tribes counted by winters, the name winter count was given to this activity area. Pupils...