Winter counts--pictorial calendars by which Plains Indians kept track of their past--marked each Year with a picture of a memorable event.
This volume is an unprecedented assemblage of information on the important collection of Lakota Winter Counts at the Smithsonian, a core resource for the study of Lakota history and.
The Lakota, or Western Sioux, recorded many different events in their Winter counts, but all include "the Year the Stars fell," the spectacular Leonid meteor shower of 1833-34.
Winter counts--pictorial calendars by which Plains Indians kept track of their past--marked each Year with a picture of a memorable event