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Description A ledger drawing by Lakota Sioux Chief Black Hawk, depicting a horned Thunder Being (Haokah) on a horse-like creature with eagle talons and buffalo horns. The creature's tail forms a rainbow that represents the entrance to the Spirit World, and the dots represent hail. Accompanying the picture on the page were the words "Dream or vision of himself changed to a destroyer and riding a buffalo eagle"
Date between 1880 and 1881
date QS:P,+1880-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1880-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1881-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Source American Indians: Celebrating the Voices, Traditions & Wisdom of Native Americans, by the National Society for American Indian Elderly, Goldstreet Press, 2008, ISBN 9781934533123, pg 202
Author Sioux Chief Black Hawk (born 1832)


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A Haokah ledger drawing by Lakota drawing by Sioux Chier Black Hawk [[Haokah]].

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current22:39, 8 August 2007Thumbnail for version as of 22:39, 8 August 2007715 × 443 (95 KB)DieWeisseRose{{Information |Description=Depiction of a spirit being |Source=http://www.plainsledgerart.org/view.pila?PLATE_ID=2285&top=# |Date=1880-1881 |Author=Black Hawk |Permission= |other_versions= }}

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