Lame Bull Speaks: The Lukin Ledger and Pikuni Blackfoot History

Author(s): Linea Sundstrom

Year: 2021

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Paleo Lithics to Legacy Management: Ruthann Knudson—Inawa’sioskitsipaki" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

A Pikuni Blackfoot notebook created sometime between 1904 and 1911 and linked to the descendants of Lame Bull contains a winter count, a record of two treaty conferences, and a list of the leaders of various nations comprising the Blackfoot Confederacy, recorded as pictographs. An unknown person has annotated some of the pictographs in English. The record provides a Blackfoot perspective on contact-era history. In addition, the specifics of the pictographic system provide a key to interpreting some northern Great Plains rock art.

Cite this Record

Lame Bull Speaks: The Lukin Ledger and Pikuni Blackfoot History. Linea Sundstrom. Presented at The 86th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2021 ( tDAR id: 466503)

Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 29888