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Unit 3: Set 1. Winter Counts - Activity 2

Intro | High Dog Count | Beede's Provenance | No Ears Count | Discussion | Activity 1 | Activity 2

Historical Corroboration Chart

(download pdf file of activity and chart)

Historians need to corroborate past events by checking other sources.  Using the example as a model, list in this chart some events or people you noted in the High Dog’s winter count. Look in encyclopedias, histories of the Sioux/Lakota, or other regional histories, or the internet for more information on the event or person listed.

Event/Person

Date(s)

Corroboration source

Notes

Aaron Beede

1859 - 1934

UND Library website:
www.und.nodak.edu

Beede learned the Sioux language at 15