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xx, 264 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm |
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| Series |
Kansas Notable Book ; 2021.
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| Summary |
"Northern Cheyenne Ledger Art by Fort Robinson Breakout Survivors presents the Dodge City ledger art booklets-created by Wild Hog, Porcupine, and possibly Tangled Hair, Left Hand, Noisy Walker (or Old Man), Old Crow, and Blacksmith - that document a Native perspective at the cusp of reservation life in 1879"-- Provided by publisher. |
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"Northern Cheyenne Ledger Art by Fort Robinson Breakout Survivors presents the images of Native warriors--Wild Hog, Porcupine, and Left Hand, as well as possibly Noisy Walker (or Old Man), Old Crow, Blacksmith, and Tangled Hair--as they awaited probable execution in the Dodge City jail in 1879. When Sheriff Bat Masterson provided drawing materials, the men created war books that were coded to avoid confrontation with white authorities and to narrate survival from a Northern Cheyenne point of view. The prisoners used the ledger-art notebooks to maintain their cultural practices during incarceration and as gifts and for barter with whites in the prison where they struggled to survive. The ledger-art notebooks present evidence of spiritual practice and include images of contemporaneous animals of the region, hunting, courtship, dance, social groupings, and a few war-related scenes. Denise Low and Ramon Powers include biographical materials from the imprisonment and subsequent release, which extend the historical arc of Northern Cheyenne heroes of the Plains Indian Wars into reservation times. Sources include selected ledger drawings, army reports, letters, newspapers, and interviews with some of the Northern Cheyenne men and their descendants. Accounts from a firsthand witness of the drawings and composition of the ledgers themselves give further information about Native perspectives on the conflicted history of the North American West in the nineteenth century and beyond. This group of artists jailed after the tragedy of the Fort Robinson Breakout have left a legacy of courage and powerful art."--Verso of back cover. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
List of illustrations -- List of tables -- Preface -- Introduction -- Historical context -- Provenance -- Ledgers content overview -- Ledger artists' style and art -- Artists' biographies -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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Artists' biographies: Wild Hog -- Porcupine -- Old Crow -- Strong Left Hand (Hote-Ne-A-Ate-Zi) -- Tangle Hair (Ha To Za Ah) -- Noisy Walker -- Blacksmith. |
| Indexed In: |
Indexed in the Native American Artists Resource Collection Online, Billie Jane Baguley Library and Archives, Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, at the artist name level (April 23, 2021) |
| Source |
Wtrmrk 09.2021 PARS |
| Awards |
Kansas Notable Book, 2021. |
| Subject |
Cheyenne art -- Kansas.
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Indian ledger drawings -- Kansas.
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Cheyenne art. (OCoLC)fst00853973
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Indian ledger drawings. (OCoLC)fst00969131
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Kansas. (OCoLC)fst01204323
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| Added Author |
Powers, Ramon, 1939- author.
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| ISBN |
9781496215154 hardcover |
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149621515X hardcover |
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9781496222992 electronic publication |
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9781496223005 mobi |
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9781496223012 electronic book |
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