Winter counts are recordings of the Lakota tribal history. The Plains Indian Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West has one winter count that is known as the […]
winter count
Treasures from Our West: Lone Dog’s winter count
Originally featured in Points West in Winter 2011 A winter count is a record of tribal history. Each year the keeper of the count added one symbol, representing a significant […]
Treasures from Our West: painted buffalo hide
Originally featured in Points West in Winter 2009 Painted Buffalo Hide Plains Native peoples commemorated important events with painted images on tanned buffalo hides. The paintings depicted stories of family […]
Making winter count
If you were to pick a single event from last year that would forever highlight 2013 for you and your family, what would it be? Was your home flooded? Did […]
