Blue Thunder's Winter Count: An Exploration of Dakota History
All of the above image above is clickable. Winter Counts from different tribal groups frequently follow roughly similar narratives many of which re-count similar incidents with similar pictographs. The count emphasized here -- Blue Thunder III [Yellow Lodge] -- includes interpretations from various Dakota historians: Blue Thunder, No Two Horns, High Dog, and occasional others. This winter count is part of a group of nine closely related counts from the Standing Rock Reservation in the Dakotas. The one here above is the Yellow Lodge Blue Thunder Variant Count III . In addition, this winter count often echoes the content of other counts -- Swift Dog, Jaw, and Ben Kindle. When this is the case, the editors of this website often reveal this in links to "more" material. You can find the essay on which this exploration is founded in
Sound: Dakota man plays flute on a Sunday afternoon, 1987. The Library of Congress Sound Archives <http://www.loc.gov> |