Accounts of Indian Life

1-26-2007

CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION NOTES FROM ACADEME From the issue dates January 26, 2007 Accounts of Indian Life Plains Indian men used to wear stories on their backs. Buffalo skins painted with the wearer's exploits in battle or the brave acts of his tribesmen were used to show status and displayed on ceremonial occasions. But beginning in the 1860s and 1870s, as the destruction of buffalo herds made hides scarce and Plains people were forced onto reservations, they began to use new mat...

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Valuable ledger tells of warrior exploits

7-20-2001

Valuable ledger tells of warrior exploits By Linda Audet Thomas The Circleville Herald July 20, 2001 Please download pdf file.

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Plains Indian Ledger Art: Images for a Digital Age

Spring 2007

Plains Indian Ledger Art: Images for a Digital Age By Jamie Ellin Forbes Fine Art Magazine Spring 2007 Please download pdf file.

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Sketches preserved as natives' narratives

1-1-2006

Sketches preserved as natives' narratives Ledger books contain art by Plains Indians By Chet Barfield UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER January 1, 2006 A San Diego professor's decade-long quest to preserve a rare form of 19th-century American Indian art is getting a big boost from a happenstance partnership with an Escondido gallery owner. Now people can do more than see and learn about Plains Indian ledger art on the project's Web site. They also can buy a limited number of museum-quality...

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Drawing on Tribal History

May 2006

@UCSD AN ALUMNI PUBLICATION May 2006 Volume 3, Number 2 Drawing on Tribal History 
by Inga Kiderra Ross Frank was a teenager when he first saw the 19th-century ledger drawings of Plains Indians. These were three scenes of derring-do acquired by his art-dealer father. Two were drawn by a Lakota Sioux man named Swift Dog, who had fought at the Battle of the Little Big Horn as one of Sitting Bull’s band. The third was by Red Hawk and was said to have been taken off a dead warrior ...

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Plains Indian Ledger Art Exhibit Has UCSD & Library Ties

02-15-2013

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Inside the Fales-Freeman Brulé Ledger

11-15-2013

The Fales-Freeman Brulé Ledger During the 1860-1900 period, Plains Indians created drawings on paper, often in accountant's ledger books acquired by trade, purchase, or as spoils of combat, hence the name "ledger books". Professor Ross Frank of the Department of Ethnic Studies started the Plains Indian Ledger Art Digital Publishing Project (plainsledgerart.org) in 1995 to assemble a digital record of complete ledger books scattered in museums, libraries, and private collections all over the...

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"Alternative Accounts" Curated by UC San Diego students, Plains Indian ledger art exhibition at San Diego Museum of Art shares Native vision of American history

1/31/2013

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American Indian Narratives in Picture Form

04-21-2016

Please download pdf file. American Indian Narratives in Picture Form By EVE M. KAHN APRIL 21, 2016 Kiowa ledger art from the 19th century at the National Museum of the American Indian in Manhattan. Credit Zotom, Ernest Amoroso, via National Museum of the American Indian Tattered pages from 19th-century ledger books, which American Indians used to record tribal history in picture form, have been dispersed on the market. With the loose pages no longer in their intended sequences, the graph...

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An Artful Accounting of a Culture Under Duress

7/19/2014

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Special Collections & Archives’ Ledger Art Books Serve as Hands-On Learning Tool for Graduate Students

02-28-2018

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Special Collections & Archives' Ledger Art Books Serve as Hands-On Learning Tool for Graduate Students

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