{"product_id":"the-year-the-stars-fell-lakota-winter-counts-at-the-smithsonian-hardcover","title":"The Year the Stars Fell: Lakota Winter Counts at the Smithsonian - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCandace S. Greene\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eRussell Thornton\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinter counts--pictorial calendars by which Plains Indians kept track of their past--marked each year with a picture of a memorable event. 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. 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 culture. Fourteen winter counts are presented in detail, with a chapter devoted to the newly discovered Rosebud Winter Count. Together these counts constitute a visual chronicle of over two hundred years of Lakota experience as recorded by Native historians. A visually stunning book, \u003ci\u003eThe Year the Stars Fell\u003c\/i\u003e features full-color illustrations of the fourteen winter counts plus more than 900 detailed images of individual pictographs. Explanations, provided by their nineteenth-century Lakota recorders, are arranged chronologically to facilitate comparison among counts. The book provides ready access to primary source material, and serves as an essential reference work for scholars as well as an invaluable historical resource for Native communities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCandace S. Greene is an ethnologist in the Anthropology Collections and Archives program at the Smithsonian Institution and author of \u003ci\u003eSilver Horn: Master Illustrator of the Kiowa\u003c\/i\u003e. Russell Thornton, a registered member of the Cherokee Nation, is a distinguished professor of anthropology at the University of California-Los Angeles and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Cherokees: A Population History\u003c\/i\u003e (Nebraska 1990).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 377\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.34 x 8.42 x 10.17 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 01, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757592379680,"sku":"9780803222113","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/99931d60bf72904cf634ac570685ec2e.webp?v=1780106074","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-year-the-stars-fell-lakota-winter-counts-at-the-smithsonian-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}