creating materials

[Jimm G GoodTracks]

Yes, IOM kept Winter Counts based on some event.  Persons marked their
birth by the year's event.
See: Whitman, Wm.  "The Otoe", CUCA:28. Columbia U. Press, NY. 1937.
p.13.
JGT

On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 12:09:33 -0600 (MDT) Hartwell Francis
<Hartwell.Francis at colorado.edu> writes:
> In pursuing my interest in creating materials for literacy
> development I
> stumbled across Mallery's (1888-1889 Annual Report of the Bureau of
> Ethnology, vol 10) discussion of the Dakota Winter Counts.  Winter
> Counts
> would make an interesting class module for 10-12 year olds - they
> could
> study Winter Counts and then create their own with the help of their
> elders.
>
>   Anyway, Mallery's discussion is in English only.  I have been
> wondering
> if there are published or written accounts of Winter Counts
> (wan'iyetu
> wo'wapi) in any Siouan languages.  Also, I wonder how wide-spread
> the
> practice was.  Mallery cites Lone-Dog 'Shunka-Ishnala' (Yanktonais),
> The-Flame 'Bo-i'-de' (near Fort Sully), The-Swan (Minneconjou
> Chief),
> Black-Bear 'Mato Sapa' (Minneconjou), and Battiste Good (Brule).
> Specifically, do the Chiwere keep Winter Counts?
>
> Hartwell
>