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Teaching and Learning (Responsibility of All)
Image size: 15 x 24"
Canvas - $320 - Limited edition (999)
Also available as:
Archival paper - $220 - Limited edition (999)
Framed - add $190
Poster print - $40
History is very important to us all. History serves many purposes from informing individual history community history national history to global history. As progress is made history lays a lesson plan people of the world can learn from.
History has been recorded in stone paper scrolls weaving and on animal hides. From ancient times to present day man has recorded history as a way of immortalizing their way of life.
To us Lakota Dakota & Nakota Nations historians had a very important role. The historian was a very important person with good character and in good standing with the people. Because of the tremendous value our people set upon memories and preserving our history. That individual dared not stray from the truth.
The historian/teacher was honored next to the leader. The factual knowledge was recorded painted on animal hides and because our Ancestors counted the years by the winters our calendars were called "Wintercounts."
In my painting I used images from the documented "Wintercounts" painted by the Swan LoneDog the Flame and American Horse.
I skipped some years just so I could give a brief account of some of our history. The thought I want to generate in the observer is for them to realize all peoples from different cultures have their methods of teaching and learning. Because it came from them it is more credible; there were no biases prejudices and opinions.
Chronological Listing of Historical Events
Here's how to read the wintercount drawing:
The diagram above shows how to read the Teaching & Learning buffalo wintercount drawing. Listed below are the years and symbols that are used:
1. The seven tipis symbolize the Seven Bands of our
People
2. Plenty of Buffalo
3. 1800-01 First whitemen came (7 came to their village
starving)
4. 1801-02 Small pox - many people died.
5. 1813-14 Whooping cough - many people died.
6. 1817-18 LaFramboise a canadian built a trading post.
7. 1818-19 Measles - (smallpox used them up again winter)
many people died.
8. 1822-23 Another trading post was built by a whiteman
called Big Leggings.
9. 1823-24 White soldiers arrive.
10. 1836-37 Plenty of Buffalo.
11. 1840-41 Dakotas made peace with Cheyennes
12. 1855-56 General Harney made peace (many
sacrificial-flags winter).
13. 1856-57 Many forts being built.
14. 1869-70 An eclipse of the sun.
15. 1875-76 More schools and churches are built.
16. 1888-81 Young Lakota children sent off to boarding
schools.
Wo ecetu wasté
(good & simple)
No Heart Daryl |
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