Lakota time keeping.

[Jonathan Holmes]

Should you have an interest in Lakota Wintercounts, you might also be interested in seeing the online available Ring Bull Winter Count from archives at Buechel Memorial Lakota Museum in St. Francis, South Dakota, with translations by Linea Sundstrom, Ph.D.

The web-site can be found by going to:
http://www.sfmission.org/museum/exhibits/wintercounts/ringbull.shtml

The following is an introduction from the site:
"This winter count is quite similar to that of Iron Shell, published in The Sioux, by Royal Hassrick; however, it has some years that are different from Iron Shell’s. A Miniconjou or Brule authorship is most likely, based on the similarities to Iron Shell’s account. My notes are in brackets; Buechel’s notes are in parentheses, as they appear on the original. I have not attempted to put the spelling into any of the standard Lakota orthographies. Buechel recorded two versions of each year name—that originally taken down and a later revision. In other words, two copies of the winter count are on file in the Buechel archives. These are both given in the list below The third line of each entry is my translation. I have used the symbol 'h' for the 'dotted h' used in Buechel’s orthography, because my word processing program does not have the dotted h." -- LS

1808-09
1. Cega cica wan cán kante.
Cega cinca wan cán kate.
Kettle’s child was killed by a tree.

1809-10
2. Capa cika ti ile.
Cápa cika ti ile.
Little Beaver’s house burned.
[This was a white trader, probably Loisel.]

1810-11
3. Sinte wa ki’ju aglipi.
Sinte aki’ju aglipi.
They brought back horses with decorated tails.

1811-12
4. Waniyetu wica akiran. (9 Cloud Shield’s)
Waniyetu wica akik’an.
The people were starving in winter.

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"R. Rankin" <rankin at ku.edu> wrote:
I thought I'd pass on information from the journal
_Science_ (25 Mar. '05, p. 1847). While it isn't
exactly linguistics, it may be of interest to readers
of the list.

The Smithsonian Institution has as website illustrating
several Lakota Winter counts from the 18th and 19th
centuries. These can be viewed at:
www.wintercounts.si.edu.

Bob


		
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