The Soul of the Plains: The Visionary Journey of Oscar Howe Born into the quiet strength of the Crow Creek Sioux Reservation in 1915, Oscar Howe—known in his native Yanktonai Nakota tongue as Mazuha Hokshina or "Trader Boy"—carried within him a visual language far older than the modern era. His early years were shaped by the profound spiritual and aesthetic traditions of his people, most notably through the teachings of his maternal grandmother, Shell Face. It was from her that he inherited a deep reverence for the sacred symbols and intricate geometric patterns of the Sioux tribes, elements…