One Hundred Summers

Candace S. Greene is an ethnologist in the Department of Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC. She is the author of Silver Horn: Master Illustrator of the Kiowa and the coeditor (with Russell Thornton) of The Year the Stars Fell: Lakota Winter Counts at the Smithsonian (Nebraska 2007).  Ellen Censky is the former director of the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History and currently serves as vice president of the Milwaukee Public Museum. Daniel C. Swan is the associate curator of ethnology at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History and an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Oklahoma. Gus Palmer Jr. is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Oklahoma.

"Beautifully reproduced in full color, this volume provides a fascinating look, not only at the Kiowa, but also at the gifted artist who kept a priceless record. . . . Much more than just another coffee table book, anyone with even a remote interest in American Indian artwork or history will savor this intelligent, well-researched work."—Sandy Amazeen, monstersandcritics.com "A solid scientific work, clearly arranged and well-written."—Dagmar Siebelt, Anthropos "One Hundred Summers brings to light a striking document by one of the most important calendar keepers among the Kiowas and is a welcome addition to a growing number of publications and on-line projects that provide complete photographic records and analyses of books of Plains Indian ledger drawings."—Phillip Earenfight, Great Plains Research "One Hundred Summers reminds us that indigenous cultures have not vanished, but have changed and evolved over the past two centuries. It also reminds us that, for those who care enough to look and listen, American Indians have a lot to tell us about their own past."—Greg Olson, Annals of Iowa "There is much to ponder in this book; it is a triumph of scholarship that has rescued a valuable document of Kiowa life, one that tells us a great deal indeed about a pivotal century in the tribe's history."—Clyde Ellis, Museum Anthropology Review

• List of Illustrations   Foreword by Ellen Censky      Preface by Daniel C. Swan     Acknowledgments   Note on Language  1. The Kiowa Calendar Tradition     2. The Silver Horn Calendar: A New Discovery    3. The University of Oklahoma Calendar    Glossary of Kiowa Names and Terms   Appendix A: Little Bluff Calendar Text    Appendix B: Hauvahte Calendar Text  Appendix C: Other Kiowa Calendars   Notes Bibliography      Index