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Dear All, This is not “new media curating.” It involves old media, but the story will nevertheless interest many of the readers on this list. A fascinating article in today’s New York Times describes the account of the Battle of Little Bighorn by Mnicoujou warrior Red Horse. It also presents part of the visual narrative of drawings by Red Horse: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/19/opinion/sunday/a-real-war-story-in-drawings.html First two paragraphs: —snip— A Real War Story, in Drawings Scott D. Sagan JUNE 25 marks the 140th anniversary of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, otherwise known as Custer’s Last Stand, part of the 1876 counterinsurgency campaign we call the Great Sioux War. Given that the United States today is engaged in two deadly counterinsurgency wars, fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, it is useful to study this history for what it can tell us about an adversary and ourselves. Examining the stunning drawings made in 1881 by Red Horse, a Mnicoujou warrior who fought at the Little Bighorn, provides timeless lessons about war. Red Horse, who surrendered the year after the battle, was living on the Cheyenne River Agency, a reservation in South Dakota, when he made the drawings. He spoke no English, and his initial account of the battle to American officials was delivered through Plains Indian sign language — coded hand signals that Native Americans on the Great Plains used to communicate across tribal lines. He later made the drawings with colored pencil and pen to help researchers check the accuracy of the interpretation of his sign-language testimony. But I think that the drawings are the real Red Horse testimony — more direct, eloquent and moving than the translation. —snip— If you are interest in further information, you will find it https://museum.stanford.edu/news_room/red-horse.htm You can see many of the drawings if you use the Google pictures facility with the text: red+horse+drawings+little+bighorn+smithsonian Yours, Ken Ken Friedman, PhD, DSc (hc), FDRS | Editor-in-Chief | 设计 She Ji. The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation | Published by Tongji University in Cooperation with Elsevier | URL: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/she-ji-the-journal-of-design-economics-and-innovation/ Chair Professor of Design Innovation Studies | College of Design and Innovation | Tongji University | Shanghai, China ||| University Distinguished Professor | Centre for Design Innovation | Swinburne University of Technology | Melbourne, Australia --