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Publication Date: December 31, 1991

Lone Dog recorded his calendar on buffalo hide for the Dakota Nation, each pictograph signifying an outstanding event from 1800 through 1871. With contemporary pictographs in the form of poems, Diane Glancy uses this idea of commemoration as a vehicle for her observations on the present and the past.

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Lone Dog recorded his calendar on buffalo hide for the Dakota Nation, each pictograph signifying an outstanding event from 1800 through 1871. With contemporary pictographs in the form of poems, Diane Glancy uses this idea of commemoration as a vehicle for her observations on the present and the past.

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Editorial Reviews

Review

After The Thaw
Arcane
Coyote's Volvo
Death Cry For The Language
E Wa Coo Me's Conversion
An End To Drought
Etude For Tuba 1.
Etude For Tuba 2.
Etude For Tuba 3.
February 10, Late Afternoon
The First Reader Santee Training School, 1873
A Gesture To The Sky
Hamatawk
Here I Am Standing Beside Myself
Homework
The Imaginary Indian
Invocation
Iowa: Volcano
Just After
Kemo Sabe
Late Winter
Lone Dog
Lone Dog's Winter Count 1.
Lone Dog's Winter Count 2.
Lone Dog's Winter Count 3.
Lone Dog's Winter Count 4.
Manly Heart
Overpass
The Pack-up
Portrait Of Lone Dog
Portrait Of Spring
Portrait Of The Artist As Indian
Portrait Of The Disguise Artist
Portrait Of The Escape Artist
Portrait Of The Lone Survivor
Portrait Of The Sufficiency Of Winter
The Road Paved To Heaven
Sandstone Rock In Your Hand
She Was Spinning In Space
A Single Row Of Pines
This-is-where-we-go-on-winter
Ti:ki:tihu'i (where Is My Town Or Settlement?)
Truck Stop On Highway 80 Near Walcott, Iowa
Trying To Crow 1. Cro(row)
Trying To Crow 2. Cro-de-loo
Trying To Crow 3. Trying The Whad 4
Trying To Crow 4. Craw
Trying To Crow 5. Cro-nav-i-dos
Trying To Crow 6. Vamoose
Trying To Crow 7. Papoose
Trying To Crow 8. Cawing
Unbuttered
Untitled
The White Farm
White Words You Can Hardly See Against The Sky
Yeast
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

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Lone Dog recorded his calendar on buffalo hide for the Dakota Nation, each pictograph signifying an outstanding event from 1800 through 1871. With contemporary pictographs in the form of poems, Diane Glancy uses this idea of commemoration as a vehicle for her observations on the present and the past.