Assiniboin

American  

[uh-sin-uh-boin] / əˈsɪn əˌbɔɪn /

noun

Assiniboins plural

1. a member of a Siouan people of northeastern Montana and adjacent parts of Canada.

2. the Siouan language spoken by the Assiniboin.

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adjective

1. of, relating to, or characteristic of the Assiniboin or their language.

Etymology

Origin of Assiniboin

First recorded in 1675–85; from Canadian French Assiniboine, from Ojibwe (Saulteaux dialect) assini·-pwa·n literally, “stone Sioux” (equivalent to unattested Proto-Algonquian aʔsenyi “stone” + unattested pwa·θa “enemy tribesman”)

Example Sentences

Assiniboin, Cree and Mandan were among the tribes who lived in high style before the European invaders manifested their destiny.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fort Union served as a linchpin in John Jacob Astor's lucrative beaver-fur and buffalo trade with the Assiniboin, Crow and Blackfeet Indians.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bodmer 76 25. a, Assiniboin lodges formed of pine boughs.

From Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan, and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi by Bushnell, David Ives

On the way we 165 found the horns of an elk, with twelve antlers, and it was late before we reached the Assiniboin.

From Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII by Maximilian, Alexander Philipp

The vessel, however, was ready to start; Mr. Kipp, Charbonneau, the interpreter, and the Manitari chiefs, took leave, and hastened to land, on which the Assiniboin proceeded rapidly up the Missouri.

From Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII by Maximilian, Alexander Philipp