...Russell Thornton This is a discussion of a newly found winter count of a Lakota tiyospaye(extended kinship group) that eventually ended up on the Rosebud Reservation created for the Sicangu (Brule). The count is on muslin, measuring 89 centimeters by 176 centimeters. It consists of 136 pictographs...

...Blanca Tovías This article analyzes four Siksika (Blackfoot) winter counts covering the period 1830–1937, created in the early twentieth century. In common with those of other Plains First Nations, Blackfoot winter counts are chronological yearly records of salient events. Among the Blackfoot...

...Blanca Tovías In a surprise dawn attack in January 1870, the US Army massacred 173 men, women, and children from Chief Heavy Runner's Amskapi Pikuni (Piegan/Blackfoot) band at their winter camp on the Marias River in Montana. The massacre capped a decade of violence between the Blackfoot and whites...

... . In The Year the Stars Fell: Lakota Winter Counts at the Smithsonian. Candace Greene and Russell Thornton, eds. Unpublished manuscript. Howard, James 1960 Butterfly's Mandan Winter Count,1833-1876. Ethnohistory 7 : 28 -43. Mallery, Garrick 1886 The Dakota Winter Counts . Pp. 89 -146...

... Collecting Lakota Histories: Winter Count Pictographs and Texts in the National Anthropological Archives . American Indian Art 26 ( 1 ): 82 – 103 . Codex Selden 1964 Codex Selden 3135 (A.2) . Mexico City : Sociedad Mexicana de Antropología . Conklin William 1982 The Information...

..., the break-up/spring/summer journey reaches its final moments and meets with the freeze-up/fall/winter journey described before, restarting a new cycle. On reaching their fall encampment in Slate Falls, the three families stayed together and hunted as much country game as possible and preserved...

... Cody Newton camp from the 1830s As well, a rock art panel located across the river from Fort St. Vrain containing an armored horse «gure is explicit evidence that early equestrian groups, even those historically known, were spending time in the area In post-horse times, Indian groups wintered...

... America. By Daniel K. Richter. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001. 317 pp., illustrations, maps, notes, index. $27.50 cloth, $15.95 paper.) One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West before Lewis and Clark. By Colin G. Calloway. History of the American West Series. (Lin- coln...

... another. Because in them days, I guess, some of the people . . . when they lose a loved one and they’d be down-­hearted, as soon as the Church Army comes, they’d be uplifted. —Nelson Clayton (Gwisk̲’aayn) Beginning in the 1890s, the winter season in the Nass Valley in north- ern...

... aspects of their culture but also made food and starvation a common concern.7 The Cree and Ojibwa peoples were primarily hunters and gatherers who would come together to fish and trade in the summer. In the winter in the subarctic region they would break into small sub-bands, because...

... the bison hunt about mid-August (James 1905 [1823]: 14:187; Notes 1820: 304; Thwaites 1969 [1905]: 85). They abandoned their village again in the winter and traveled to the larger for- ests adjacent to the Missouri River in present northeastern Kansas and northwestern Missouri...

... locations during the winter, and returned to larger regional depots in the early summer. This lifestyle paralleled, to a large extent, the nomadic ways of the Anishinaabeg, who also held great influence and power over fur traders, especially over their movement across the landscape and the daily practices...

... The names for periods between the month and year, or seasons, were idiosyncratic and variable. As for the year, many Indians equated its pas- sage with winter or the season of snow; ‘‘one winter’’ equaled one year. Even if it was not especially marked for many Indian people, the begin- ning (or end...

... gàiéhòldè ḕ (Place Where Black Kettle Was Killed), centers on the US Cavalry under George A. Custer attacking Black Kettle’s village at dawn along the Washita River in Indian Territory, now Oklahoma, on 27 November 1868. The attack was part of a larger winter campaign to punish Southern Plains tribes...

... a Meal. In “Myth, Symbol, and Culture,” theme issue, Daedalus Winter: 61 –81. Eidlitz, Kerstin 1969 Food and Emergency Food in the Circumpolar Area . Uppsala, Sweden: Almqvist and Wiksells Boktryckert AB. Fienup-Riordan, Ann 1986 The Real People: The Concept of Personhood among the Yup'ik...

..., all assemble at Old Town. . . . In the cold winter months they go into the forest and stay, where they can procure wood for their fires without much labor, and in the summer season they scatter . . . on the rivers and on the sea shore.” 13 In the spring of 1836 another visitor witnessed a variation...

... and building of a new house,” and a completion feast, which ends a potlatch series with the assumption of the hereditary name by the new incumbent who gained recognition and acceptance through the feasting system.¶ These feasts, as with the range of potlatch activities, occur in the winter months when...

... transformation—or even ‘‘break- downfollowing contact with colonial society. These assumptions, I sug- Ethnohistory 51:1 (winter 2004) Copyright © by the American Society for Ethnohistory. 138 Elizabeth Furniss gest, reflect a fundamentally flawed...

.... As winter set in, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) detachment in the nearby settlement of Arctic Red River received com- plaints that Johnson was sabotaging the traps of his Gwich’in neighbors. On New Year’s Eve, 1931, a party of two RCMP officers and two Gwich’in special constables were sent...

...: Cresset. Maguire, Rochfort 1969 Narrative of Commander Maguire,Wintering at Point Barrow. In The Discovery of the North-West Passage by H.M.S. “Investigator,” Capt. R. M'Clure 1850,1851, 1852, 1853, 1854 . Commander Sherard Osborne, ed. Pp. 351 -405. Rutland, vt: Charles Tuttle. Memmi, Albert...