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Assiniboin Indians
The Oxford Companion to American Literature
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Assiniboin Indians, northern Plains tribe, many of whom migrated in the 17th century from Dakota to Lake Winnipeg, and later to the upper Saskatchewan and Assiniboin rivers. Their southern branch was almost constantly at war with the Dakota Indians, until it was gathered on a Montana reservation. The Assiniboin figure in Neihardt's
Song of Three Friends.
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Cypress Hills: the land and its people.
Magazine article from: Manitoba History; 9/22/1996; 700+ words
; ...fine pelts) murdered at least twenty Assiniboin in cold blood. This led to the creation...the same time some 4,000 Cree and Assiniboin were also camped in the Cypress Hills...conquer" was applied against the Cree and Assiniboin. Recognizing that a large concentration...
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Interdependence and power: Complexity in hunter-gatherer/farmer exchanges
Magazine article from: Plains Anthropologist; 8/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...phase (ca.1730s-1810) of Mandan-Hidatsa and Cree-Assiniboin exchanges suggest that this interdependent system was characterized...patterns between the Mandan-Hidatsa villagers and Cree-Assiniboin hunter-gatherers suggests that this perspective is inadequate...
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Western wanderings. (paintings made by artist Karl Bodmer on the Montana-North Dakota border region)
Magazine article from: Sunset; 3/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Fort Union was the center of the Upper Missouri fur trade: Assiniboin Indians brought in beaver pelts and left with rifles, liquor...greatest triumphs may be his portraits - of the Mandan, the Assiniboin, the Piegan Blackfeet. "Bodmer and Maximilian had to have...
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EARLY AND MID-HOLOCENE DOGS IN SOUTHEASTERN NORTH AMERICA: EXAMPLES FROM DUST CAVE
Magazine article from: Southeastern Archaeology; 7/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...domestic items for people in a variety of ways. Among the Assiniboin, for example, dogs wore packs that consisted of two skin pouches cinched around their middle (Figure 1). Assiniboin dogs could have carried loads between 30 and 50 pounds...
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Analysis: Native American tribes learning how to get phone service on their reservations
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition; 9/28/2000; ; 680 words
; ...LYNETTE NYMAN reporting: Donald Longknife lives on the Assiniboin Reservation in northern Montana. When he dials 911, his...you know, if we really need them that bad. NYMAN: The Assiniboin Tribal Council sent Longknife to this telecom conference to...
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Robert Smith // American Indian Economic Development Association
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 7/7/1995; 384 words
; ...lays claim to an ancient spiritual legacy. "I dance to reconnect with the Circle," says the 24-year-old Ojibway; Assiniboin, a Chicago native. Smith is a student at the School of the Art Institute who blends his interest in fine arts and performing...
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Tour of Duty; Disabled Vietnam Vet Walks Cross-Country In a Personal Quest to Honor Victims of Sept. 11
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 4/13/2002; 618 words
; ...leg injury and was told he had post- traumatic stress disorder. Not long ago, Fluent was made a ceremonial warrior in the Assiniboin tribe of American Plains Indians. His Indian name is Two Angry Bears. "I've got a deep aching in my soul that I can...
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riding the breaks.(Missouri River)
Magazine article from: Sports Afield; 4/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...time on the river of the Old West. THE BREAKS and surrounding plains were once the home of the buffalo-hunting Blackfoot, Assiniboin and Crow Indians. Lewis and Clark traveled to the Pacific through the Breaks on their famous journey in the spring of 1805...
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History, Power, and Identity: Ethnogenesis in the Americas, 1492-1992
Magazine article from: Plains Anthropologist; 8/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...Patterns of Ethnicity in the Northeastern Plains, 1780-1870" by Patricia Albers offers an insightful look into Plains Assiniboin, Cree, and Ojibwa. Albers asserts that as these groups became fully adapted to a Plains way of life (1780-1820), they...
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Write your own version of history - in a personal journal.(THE HOME FORUM)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor; 1/18/2005; 700+ words
; ...a German prince who explored the American West in the early 1800s. Among the events he witnessed was a battle between the Assiniboin and Blackfoot Indians. He wrote: "They came galloping in groups, from three to twenty together, their horses covered...
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Assiniboin
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
Assiniboin ETHNONYMS: Assiniboine, Assinipwat...Eaters, Hohe, Stoneys, Stonies The Assiniboin are a Siouan-speaking group who separated...the upper Bow River in Alberta. The Assiniboin were a typical plains bison-hunting...
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Assiniboin Indians
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Assiniboin Indians, northern Plains tribe, many...later to the upper Saskatchewan and Assiniboin rivers. Their southern branch was almost...gathered on a Montana reservation. The Assiniboin figure in Neihardt's Song of Three...
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The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804)
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...early winter of 1804. The Mandan, Assiniboin, and Minnetaree Indians lived in the...Black Cat, Poscapsahe, who brought an Assiniboin chief and seven warriors to see us...the plains between the Missouri and Assiniboin during the summer, and in the winter...
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Gros Ventre
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...Belknap Reservation for them and the Assiniboin in Montana Territory in 1888, and they...100 and the combined Gros Ventre-Assiniboin population at 1,870 in 1980. On the...four districts with the Gros Ventre and Assiniboin having equal representation. Tribal...
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Manitoba
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...the lands draining into Hudson Bay. This vast area included the present-day province of Manitoba, then occupied by the Assiniboin, the Ojibwa, and the Cree. The company established a trading post at Port Nelson and soon extended its operations south...
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