Winter Nights in a Native American Camp, 1840s | History for Sleep

Hey guys! We're now on Spotify 🎧 Join us here: https://open.spotify.com/show/0z2GXOz... Fall asleep inside an Oglala Lakota lodge in a winter camp on the northern Plains, 1846, one warm station of the night at a time. The lodge was a cone of a dozen or more sewn buffalo hides, up to 18, raised on as many as 25 to 27 poles, and it belonged to the woman who made it. Inside, a lining about 6 feet high held a layer of still air against the cold, while 8 to 10 people slept around one fire. Each robe under them took about 10 days to tan. And one Oglala winter count remembered this very winter by a single picture: a great feast. Subscribe to the channel: @quiethistoricnights In this video, we talk about how a Lakota family spent a winter night in the 1840s, including choosing a creek bottom out of the wind, the tiyospaye and the camp circle, turning the smoke flaps to the wind, cottonwood bark for the horses, how the women made and owned the lodge, poles and cherry-wood stakes, the guest's place at the back, the lining and the still air, the fire and buffalo fat on the embers, beds of buffalo robes, wasna and the iron kettle, what a robe was worth at Fort Laramie, the crier's voice, being a good relative, winter as the season of stories, the winter count and the year the stars fell, rib sleds and singing tops, the cradle and its cottonwood down, snow banked against the lodge, and the whole camp glowing like lanterns on the snow. 🔔 Subscribe so the next long winter night finds you on its own, fire already lit. 💬 Comment where you are listening from tonight, and which part of the Lakota lodge you would most like to sleep in. 📢 Share this with someone who needs a quieter night, on Facebook, Reddit, or the family group chat. You are the reason these long nights keep getting made. Chapters: 00:00 Opening 15:07 Smoke flaps turned to the wind 34:52 Poles and pegs and the rising cone 54:20 The fire at the center 1:14:01 Supper from the summer's work 1:34:12 Visitors and the passing pipe 1:54:21 Winter, the season of stories 2:14:40 The baby in the soft cradle 2:35:10 The fire let down to coals 2:55:58 The whole camp asleep Sources: The Oregon Trail, Francis Parkman, ch. XIV "The Ogillallah Village" (Internet Archive) https://ia801801.us.archive.org/27/it... My People the Sioux, Luther Standing Bear (Internet Archive) https://archive.org/stream/my-people-... Indian Boyhood, Charles A. Eastman (Project Gutenberg) https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/... Oceti Sakowin: kinship and the camp circle (Smithsonian NMAI Native Knowledge 360) https://americanindian.si.edu/nk360/p... Tipis (Encyclopedia of the Great Plains, University of Nebraska–Lincoln) https://plainshumanities.unl.edu/ency... Lakota Winter Count (Minneapolis Institute of Art) https://new.artsmia.org/programs/teac... Fort Laramie (WyoHistory.org) https://www.wyohistory.org/encycloped... DISCLAIMER: This video is based on real historical events and figures, drawn from the sources listed above alongside primary archives, biographies, court records, period press, and leading historical scholarship. While every video is heavily researched, occasional minor inaccuracies in dates, quotes, or specific details may occur — historical sources sometimes disagree, and interpretation is sometimes required where the historical record is silent. Any errors are unintentional. #QuietHistoricNights #HistoryForSleep #Lakota #Oglala #LakotaHistory #Tipi #WinterCamp #NativeAmerican #NativeAmericanHistory #GreatPlains #NorthernPlains #1840s #BuffaloRobe #WinterCount #FortLaramie #LutherStandingBear #CharlesEastman #FrancisParkman #SleepHistory #BedtimeHistory #FallAsleep #History