The Year the Stars Fell: Lakota Winter Counts at the Smithsonian edited by Candace S. Greene and Russell Thornton

“In this wonderful book, readers are presented with more than 900 individual pictographs signifying several centuries of tribal knowledge. . . . Taken together, these fascinating images provide an alternative history of the American West as written by those who were there in the beginning and remain there now. Like the Bayeux Tapestry—the embroidered cloth that preserves a visual history of the Battle of Hastings—these images challenge written recollection and revisit history in a way that takes us away from our own age and out into the greater world of ideas and images. In such works we can begin to recover a portion of that which has been obliterated by time.”—The Bloomsbury Review

To read earlier praise for The Year the Stars Fell, please visit http://nebraskapress.typepad.com/university_of_nebraska_pr/2007/07/praise-for-th-1.html.