creating materials

[Lance Foster]

Did Whitman list any of the IOM Winter Counts or give examples of said
years? Or was it just the Otoe? It would be really cool to learn more
about this!

Lance

Jimm G GoodTracks wrote:

> 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
> >

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