Assiniboin

[ uh-sin-uh-boin ]

/ əˈsɪn əˌbɔɪn /

noun, plural As·sin·i·boins, (especially collectively) As·sin·i·boin.

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

the dialect of Dakota spoken by the Assiniboin Indians.

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Origin of Assiniboin

1675–85; < Canadian French Assiniboine < Ojibwa (Saulteaux dial.) assini·-pwa·n literally, stone Sioux (equivalent to Proto-Algonquian *aʔsenyi stone + *pwa·θa enemy tribesman)

Example sentences from the Web for assiniboin

It is the Pish-tah-te-koosh of the Algonkin tribes, "reckoned the fleetest animal in the prairie country about the Assiniboin."
The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems|H. L. Gordon
The Assiniboin passed us rapidly in the afternoon, and we followed.
Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843)|Alexander Philipp Maximilian, Prince of Wied
In all the copses there were remains of Assiniboin encampments.
Travels in North America, From Modern Writers|William Bingley
We took this opportunity of sending letters to Europe: the Assiniboin was assigned us for the continuation of the voyage.
Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843)|Alexander Philipp Maximilian, Prince of Wied

The Assiniboin living in the far northwest had another and simpler form of temporary structure, as mentioned by Kane.
Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan, and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi|David Ives Bushnell

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