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Lone Dog’s Winter Count (pictured left)

came from the Yanktonais Nakota community. A Yanktonais (YANK-tow-nigh) man known as Lone Dog was the last known keeper of this winter count, and that is why it bears his name. This Winter Count contains pictographs that document seventy years of Yanktonais history, beginning in the winter of 1800 and ending in 1871. The Lone Dog Winter Count contains the records of many important events: of encounters with other Native peoples and with non-Natives, of years when there were disease epidemics, and of times of war. The pictographic symbols begin in the center of the hide and spiral outward in a counter­ clockwise direction.

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