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The Assiniboine or Assiniboin people ( when singular, when plural; Ojibwe: Asinaan, "stone Sioux"; also in plural Assiniboine or Assiniboin), also known as the Hohe and known by the endonym Nakota (or Nakoda or Nakona), are a First Nations/ Native American people originally from the Northern Great Plains of North America.
Today, they are centered in present-day Saskatchewan. They have also populated parts of Alberta and southwestern Manitoba in Canada, and northern Montana and western North Dakota in the United States. They were well known throughout much of the late 18th and early 19th century, and were members of the Iron Confederacy with the Cree. Images of Assiniboine people were painted by such 19th-century artists as Karl Bodmer and George Catlin.
The Assiniboine are a Native American/First Nations people. Assiniboine may also refer to:
- Assiniboine language, one of the Siouan languages
- Assiniboine River, a river that runs through the prairies of Western Canada in Saskatchewan and Manitoba
- Mount Assiniboine in eastern British Columbia, Canada
- Fort Assiniboine, Alberta, Canada
- Fort Assinniboine, Montana, U.S.
- Winnipeg—Assiniboine, a former Canadian federal electoral district
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, River-class destroyer, served 1939-1945
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, St. Laurent-class destroyer, served 1956-1988
- Assiniboine Herald, one of the heralds at the Canadian Heraldic Authority
Usage examples of "assiniboine".
Scottish clearances, had iurned the fifty-mile area around the I I BC postat Fort Garry, near the junction of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, into a relatively prosperous, if insular, community of about ten thousand souls.
LABRADOR SMITH Steaming down Main Street in the Assiniboine during the Red Riverflood of 1897, Emerson, Manitoba By 1879, seventeen ships, not all owned by the HBC, were regularly employed on prairie rivers.
Not surprisingly, he chose the lots within the four-mile belt along the Assiniboine, then thought to be the most probable route of the CPR being built by a syndicate to which he belonged.
He was on the platform at the Rent Paying Ceremony at Assiniboine Park the next day and even gave a large garden party at his home immediately afterwards.
Young Chouart ranged the swamps and woods for Indians, and Radisson had paddled down the Hayes from meeting some Assiniboine hunters, when, to his amazement, there rolled across the wooded swamps the most astonishing report that could be heard in desolate solitudes.
Red River and the Assiniboine, or what is now known as the city of Winnipeg.
September 26, steers his canoes up the shallow Assiniboine far as what is now known as Portage La Prairie, where a trail leads overland to the Saskatchewan and so down to the English traders of Hudson Bay.
There is a line of sixty or seventy horsemen, all armed, not coming to the fort, but moving diagonally across from the Assiniboine to the Red towards the colony.
The town is built at the confluence of two great rivers, the Red and Assiniboine, the former rising in Minnesota, and flowing into lake Winnipeg 150 miles north, navigable for 400 miles.
We had to cross the Assiniboine on a ferry, and then rose nearly all the way to Rapid City, twenty-two miles, going through pretty country much wooded and with hundreds of small lakes, favourite resorts of wild duck.
The Assiniboine we crossed just before getting to the fort, on a ferry.
Across the level plain which lies between the valley of the Souris and the valley of the Assiniboine there ran, at this time, three trails.
He was later to learn that the fort, near the mouth of the Yellowstone River, had lost both horses and men to raiding Assiniboine and Blackfoot warriors.
Bay, sitting next to a fire, holding a royal warrant from King Charles I and waiting for the Assiniboine and Cree to bring in a fresh pile of beaver pelts he could benevolently exchange for a few barrels of flour and sugar.
Then he was sent back to the field again, to join the Tenth Cavalry at Fort Assiniboine, Montana.