Everything about The Assiniboine totally explained
The
Assiniboine, also known by the
Ojibwe name
Asiniibwaan "Stone Sioux", and the
Cree as
Asinîpwât are a
Native American/
First Nations people originally from the Northern
Great Plains of the
United States and
Canada, centered in present-day
Saskatchewan; they also populated parts of
Alberta, southwestern
Manitoba, northern
Montana and western
North Dakota. They were well known throughout much of the late
1700s and early
1800s. Images of Assiniboine people were painted by such 19th century artists as
Karl Bodmer and
George Catlin. The Assiniboine have many similarities to the
Lakota Sioux in lifestyle, linguistics, and cultural habits, and are considered part of the Nakoda sub-group of the
Nakota Sioux. It is believed that the Assiniboine broke away from Yanktonai Nakota in the
16th century. They are also closely linked to the
Stoney First Nations people of
Alberta - who are also Siouan people who use a Nakodan variant of the
Sioux language.
The Assiniboine were close allies and trading partners of the
Cree, engaging in wars against the
Atsina alongside them, and later fighting the
Blackfeet. A Plains people, they generally went no further north than the
North Saskatchewan River and purchased a great deal of European trade goods through Cree middlemen from the
Hudson's Bay Company.
The life style of this group was semi-
nomadic, and they'd follow the herds of
bison during the warmer months. They did a considerable amount of
trading with European traders, and worked with the
Mandan,
Hidatsa, and
Arikara tribes, and that factor is strongly attached to their life style.
Though their description of the group wasn't all together favorable, the tribe's existence was noted in the journals of
Lewis and Clark on their return journey from
Fort Clatsop down the
Missouri River. They had heard rumors that this was a ferocious group, and hoped to avoid contact with them. They didn't see any of these people, and were not able to prove those rumors.
The names by which the Assiniboine are usually known are not derived from the way they refer to themselves. As a Siouan people, they traditionally thought of themselves to themselves as the
Hohe Nakota. With the widespread adoption of English, however, many simply use the
English name consistently.
Assiniboine, however, is a word that English borrowed from
French, which in turn took it from the
Ojibwe word
asinii-bwaan, meaning
stone Sioux as well as the
Cree term
asinîpwât. In the same way,
Assnipwan comes from the word
asinīpwāt in the western
Cree dialects, from
asiniy - "stone" - and
pwāta - "Sioux". Early French traders in the west were often familiar with
Algonquian languages, and many Cree or Ojibwe words for other western Canadian peoples were adopted into French in the early colonial era, and thence into English.
note: They were referred with the name "stone" because they cooked with primarily stones. They would drop hot stones into water, causing the water to boil, which would cook the meat.
Today, a substantial number of Assiniboine people live jointly with several branches of the
Sioux people on the
Fort Peck Indian Reservation in northeastern
Montana, and with the
Gros Ventre people on the
Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in north central Montana.
Canada Steamship Lines paid tribute to them by naming one of their new ships CSL Assiniboine.
Gallery
Image:A skin lodige of the Assiniboin chief 0016v.jpg|A skin lodge of the Assiniboin chief
Image:An Assiniboin indian and a Yanktonan indian 0045v.jpg|An Assiniboin indian (left)
Image:Assiniboin indians 0065v.jpg|Assiniboin indians
Image:Dacota woman and Assiniboin girl 0042v.jpg|Dacota woman and Assiniboin girl (left)
Image:Magic pile erected by the Assiniboin indians 0015v.jpg|Magic pile erected by the Assiniboin indians
Image:Tombs of Assiniboin indians on trees 0063v.jpg|Tombs of Assiniboin indians on trees
Image:Assinniboine.jpg|Assiniboine in Montana, 1890-1891.
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