Keeping History - Plains Indian Ledger Drawings

Plains Indian prisoners arriving at Fort Marion, Florida Unknown photographer, about 1875 Courtesy Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Image: 1004474  

"Like many of the world’s peoples, American Indians kept history in dances, songs, and stories, and in a highly symbolic form of picture writing, called “pictographs” by Anglo-Europeans. To the people who were making and sharing them, these new drawings were historical documents—personal, political, cultural, and social..."http://americanhistory.si.edu/documentsgallery/exhibitions/ledger_drawing_1.html