DAKOTA WINTER count
Picture by Robin Nelson adapted from Red Horse Owner’s Winter Count.
Each picture equals one year and one story. This way, each village could keep track of the important events that made up its history.
This picture tells of a year when the people of the village found a stand of pine trees and collected the branches to line the floors of their tipis. This helped protect them from the cold of winter. An important event for everyone in the village!
This picture tells of a year when the people of the village found a stand of pine trees and collected the branches to line the floors of their tipis. This helped protect them from the cold of winter. An important event for everyone in the village!
Page Jump
1 Essential Question
2 Learning Goal
3 Vocabulary Words
4 Winter Count – Definition
5 Winter Count – Explanation
6 Winter Count – Historian Image
7 Winter Count – Explanation of Winter Count images
8 Story Telling
9 Story Telling – Intro to Turtle Story
10 Toys
11 Games – Lacrosse Image
12 Games – Hoop and Arrow
13 Games – Games of Chance and Skill
14 Video – Explaining Traditional Games; Plum Stone Game; Deer Toe Bone Game; Double Ball Game
15 Snow Snake Game
16 Essential Question Review
17 Learning Goal Review
18 Extension of Learning
1 Essential Question
2 Learning Goal
3 Vocabulary Words
4 Winter Count – Definition
5 Winter Count – Explanation
6 Winter Count – Historian Image
7 Winter Count – Explanation of Winter Count images
8 Story Telling
9 Story Telling – Intro to Turtle Story
10 Toys
11 Games – Lacrosse Image
12 Games – Hoop and Arrow
13 Games – Games of Chance and Skill
14 Video – Explaining Traditional Games; Plum Stone Game; Deer Toe Bone Game; Double Ball Game
15 Snow Snake Game
16 Essential Question Review
17 Learning Goal Review
18 Extension of Learning