More On Lakota Thunderbirds
Posted by: Loren Coleman on August 14th, 2007
Following up on the current report of Thunderbirds or Mothmen from the Standing Rock Indian Reservation mentioned yesterday, I wanted to share this map of the location of the sightings.
The Lakota and Dakota have stylization their representations of Thunderbirds for hundreds of years.
How some of these have come into white culture is as subtle as these designs published in Boy’s Life a few decades ago.
Boy’s Life, the Boy Scout magazine, used to have a monthly column from “Whittlin’ Jim” (1946-1991), and this is an example of one of his “slides of the day.” All were without copyright.
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Thanks for the update.
quite cool
I saw one of these things, about twenty 8 years ago in Arizona. My brothers and I were tubing on the Verde river in Nov. [yeah we were crazy]. Anyway along came this huge grey bird and a bald eagle was fighting with it. That’s how I figured out that the wingspan must have been about 14-16 feet. We were amazed. It looked like some kind of condor in in wing configuration, it was all one color of lighter grey no patterns of any kind. I was separated from the others and it flew lazily over me very close so I could tell that its body with tail was at least the same length as mine, I’m 5’5″. I’ve never seen a description of this bird in any ornithology books even though as you can imagine I have searched for one ever since.