Culture and Craft: Plains Indian Ledger Art
Tuesday, November 17, 2026 · 4:30 PM EST · Ginter Park Branch Library · Richmond, VA
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Culture and Craft invites participants to learn about the history and shared meaning of different communities through hands-on exploration of craft traditions. Plains Indian Ledger Art is a type of narrative art that evolved in the late 1800s among many Great Plains Native groups, including the Cheyenne, Kiowa, and Lakota. These groups originally used bison hides as canvases for their drawings, but as the settler's Bison Genocide took herds numbers down from 30-60 million to just a few hundred, Native artists began using old ledger and record books from settlers as materials. These drawings often depicted life and community events, particularly battles, as well as interactions with settler groups. To this day, ledger art persists as an important style of Plains Native artistic expression, particularly as a form of protest or resistance.
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