Dakota Wind Goodhouse

Dakota Wind Goodhouse is a Ph.D. student in History. Goodhouse completed his M.A. in History at North Dakota State University in 2019. He was born and raised on the vast open plain, the ancestral land of sky and wind, the homeland of the Ochéthi Shakówiŋ (Seven Council Fires).

Goodhouse seeks to establish the earliest window of Ochéthi Shakówiŋ cultural and historical occupation on the Great Plains at the turn of circa 900 CE, using Waníyetu Wówapi (Winter Counts) which are pictographic records, oral tradition associated with place, and Wílowaŋ (a song tradition) a unique and ancient song composition style with origins only on the Great Plains.

Goodhouse teaches US History and Native American Studies at United Tribes Technical College. His interests outside of history include mythology, watercolors, gaming, laughing at his own jokes, and touring places of interest on the Great Plains.

He occasionally updates his history blog The First Scout.

He occasionally posts his art @thefirstscout.