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| - | ====== Winter Count (485) ====== | + | ====== Winter Count ====== |
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| + | **//The Serpent and the Fire// (pp. 485)** \\ | ||
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| Author: Battiste Good (1821 - 1908) | Author: Battiste Good (1821 - 1908) | ||
| Location: Dakota, USA | Location: Dakota, USA | ||
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| The winter count was a form of historical storytelling used by many Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains and Canadian Prairies. Tribes like the Blackfeet, Mandan, Kiowa, Lakota, Nakota, and Dakota relied upon these pictographs as a medium for remembering cultural moments, making them mnemonic devices that act as forms of recordkeeping. They were also arranged in chronological order. | The winter count was a form of historical storytelling used by many Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains and Canadian Prairies. Tribes like the Blackfeet, Mandan, Kiowa, Lakota, Nakota, and Dakota relied upon these pictographs as a medium for remembering cultural moments, making them mnemonic devices that act as forms of recordkeeping. They were also arranged in chronological order. | ||
| - | A standard winter count, depicts the most memorable event of a year rather than the most important. This decision is made by tribal elders and the keeper who will then proceed to create an image to memorialize the event. While in some tribes, like the Kiowas, more than one pictograph was recorded every year, most Plain tribes illustrated only one memorable event yearly. The years depicted in the winter count usually were recorded between the first snowfall to the first snowfall. The time that elapsed between these two events was considered a full year, and the events occurring between were therefore subject for the pictograph. | + | A standard winter count depicts the most memorable event of a year rather than the most important. This decision is made by tribal elders and the keeper who will then proceed to create an image to memorialize the event. While in some tribes, like the Kiowas, more than one pictograph was recorded every year, most Plain tribes illustrated only one memorable event yearly. The years depicted in the winter count usually were recorded between the first snowfall to the first snowfall. The time that elapsed between these two events was considered a full year, and the events occurring between were therefore subject for the pictograph. |
| Similarities also occur between winter counts across the Great Plain region, which implies possible interband relations existing between indigenous people. Some winter counts like those produced by Long Dog, The Flame, The Swan, and Major Bush are described as being so alike due to their close proximity to one another. So rather than just communicate individual tribal memories, these winter counts demonstrated a communal indigenous history. Because of this, winter counts can account for the movement of settlers into the Great Plains as well as the political and social relationships between various tribes. | Similarities also occur between winter counts across the Great Plain region, which implies possible interband relations existing between indigenous people. Some winter counts like those produced by Long Dog, The Flame, The Swan, and Major Bush are described as being so alike due to their close proximity to one another. So rather than just communicate individual tribal memories, these winter counts demonstrated a communal indigenous history. Because of this, winter counts can account for the movement of settlers into the Great Plains as well as the political and social relationships between various tribes. | ||
