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
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Source
American Indians: Celebrating the Voices, Traditions & Wisdom of Native Americans, by the National Society for American Indian Elderly, Goldstreet Press, 2008, ISBN9781934533123, pg 202
Author
Sioux Chief Black Hawk (born 1832)
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