Abstract:According to Greene (2005), “history is written by the victor – meaning that the voices of the defeated are often muted in the historical record, overwritten by the perspectives of the more powerful” (p. 1). However, winter counts (waniyetu wówapi), traditional pictographic calendars on animal hide, challenge this historical recount through their simple symbolic representation that captures history from the perspective of Indigenous communities. This paper proposes the re-visioning of winter counts in achievin… Show more
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