Native American

PICTOGRAPHS

WINTER COUNT

Native Americans were the first people living in the United States as well as the rest of North America.

PICTOGRAPHS

There were many different groups or tribes of Native Americans. They did not have a written language. They have complex spoken languages and used other ways to communicate with each other.

PICTOGRAPHS

Native Americans were the first people living in the United States as well as the rest of North America.

Most of the groups or tribes used a kind of picture writing called pictographs. Many of the pictograph symbols are the same or similar among several groups or tribes.

PICTOGRAPHS

Native Americans were the first people living in the United States as well as the rest of North America.

There were many different groups or tribes of Native Americans. They did not have a written language. They have complex spoken languages and used other ways to communicate with each other.

PICTOGRAPHS

This Brule Sioux tipi is decorated with a winter count painted in pictographs. It was made over 100 years ago.

PICTOGRAPHS

This buffalo hide from a Plains tribe shows a battle.

PICTOGRAPHS

This Iowa warrior is painted for battle. Usually pictographsof hands represent success in hand-to-hand combat.

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These are pictographs painted on rock from the Boundary Waters of Minnesota. They show people, probably warriors, in canoes, hunting moose.

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Behind the Lakota Sioux couple in the photograph is a record of Battle in pictographs.1890-1891

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This shows a Native American artist, Sam Two Kills, paintingA winter count. It is from over 100 years ago.

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. Settlers and explorers created “dictionaries” to help them read pictograph messages.

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