upper Plains art: beauty right in our own backyard

Check out this Lakota Winter Count online exhibition from the Smithsonian.

A close Lakota friend of mine continues this Winter Count tradition (he hails from Standing Rock Reservation). His Count traces back at least 200 years, and he adds a new pictograph each year. There's even a picto of a space shuttle (I think the Columbia?), as the first Native was sent into space on it. If I get a photograph of it, I'll post it on our site to class up the joint a bit. Fuck Wynn and Picasso. This Lakota stuff is cooler.