The Lone Dog Winter Count Winter Counts (a closer look) – PowerPoint II Click You will be shown textual representations of winter count images. Draw an image of the event described. Compare/contrast your drawing with the original keeper of the winter count. Good Luck!
Winter Counts (a closer look) - PowerPoint Winter Count: Cloud Shield (1840 – 1841) They stole many horses from the Snakes [Shoshoni]. ? Click American Horse says that his father, Sitting Bear, and others stole 200 horses from the Flatheads (Corbusier 1886:140). American Horse has this for , too. For see also: Rosebud, Flame, Lone Dog, Major Bush, No Ears, and Swan… Visit for additional information.
Winter Counts (a closer look) - PowerPoint Winter Count: Flame (1843 – 1844) Buffalo is scarce; an Indian makes medicine and brings them to the suffering. ? Click Mato Sapa says: Dakotas were starving; made medicine to Great Spirit by painting buffalo head on their lodges; plenty came (Mallery 1886:118-19). See Rosebud, Lone Dog, and Swan. … Visit for additional information.
Winter Counts (a closer look) - PowerPoint Winter Count: Swan (1859 – 1860) A Minneconjou Dakota, named Big Crow, was killed by the Crow Indians. ? Click Notes: He had received his name from killing a Crow Indian of unusual size (Mallery 1886:123). Several other calendars record this man's death. See also Good, Flame, Lone Dog, Major Bush, and No Ears. Rosebud marks it as Visit for additional information.
Winter Counts (a closer look) - PowerPoint Winter Count: : Battiste Good (1877 – 1878) Crazy Horse came to make peace and was killed with his hands stretched out winter. ? Click Notes: This refers to the well-known killing of the chief Crazy Horse while a prisoner (Mallery 1893:327). The Oglala warrior was killed when taken into custody at Fort Robinson, Nebraska. See also American Horse, Cloud Shield, No Ears, and… Visit for additional information.
Winter Counts (a closer look) - PowerPoint Winter Count: Long Soldier (1880 – 1881) Soldiers fired into Sioux and captured Indians. Infantry, artillery and cavalry represented. ? Click
Winter Counts (a closer look) - PowerPoint Winter Count: Rosebud (1880 – 1881) Children sent to school. ? Click Notes: Battiste Good records this event for the previous year, as do the counts of Firethunder and Wounded Bear. This may note the first time Sicangu children were sent to school, as indicated by the human figures inside a log building. See Good's winter count. Visit to view additional winter counts.
Winter Counts (a closer look) - PowerPoint Winter Count: Cloud Shield (1788 – 1789) The winter was so cold that crows froze to death. ? Click Several counts mark this year when the winter was so cold, crows froze, including Rosebud, Flame, Good and White Cow Killer. White Cow Killer calls it "Many-black-crows-died winter" (Corbusier 1886:132). American Horse and No Ears mark it for the following year Visit to view additional winter counts.
Winter Counts (a closer look) - PowerPoint Winter Count: : Lone Dog (1800 – 1801) Thirty Dakotas were killed by Crow Indians. ? Click Notes: The device consists of thirty parallel lines in three columns, the outer lines being united. In this chart, such black lines always signify the death of Dakotas killed by their enemies. The Absaroka or Crow tribe, although belonging to the Siouan [language] family, has nearly always been at war with the Dakotas… Visit for additional information.
Winter Counts (a closer look) - PowerPoint Winter Count: Lone Dog (1803 – 1804) They stole some "curly horses" from the Crows. ? Click Notes: Some of these horses are still on the plains, the hair growing in closely curling tufts. The device is a horse with black marks for the tufts. The Crows are known to have been early in the possession of horses (Mallery 1893:273). White Cow Killer calls it… Visit for additional information.
Winter Counts (a closer look) - PowerPoint Winter Count: Flame ( ) Many Indians died of cold (consumption) (Mallery 1886:108). ? Click Notes: Most accounts agree that the disease was whooping cough. The discrepancy between diseases may simply be one of translation. Some diseases were new to the Indians, having been brought to North America inadvertently by Europeans. Because these were new illnesses, Indian people… Visit for additional information.
The Lone Dog Winter Count Winter Counts (a closer look) - PowerPoint Click Content provided by: Smithsonian: Natural Museum of Natural History Lakota Winter Counts -An Online Exhibit- Lesson and PowerPoint provided by: South Dakota Office of Indian Education & South Dakota Public Broadcasting