Assiniboine
Americannoun
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a river in southern Canada, flowing south and east from southeastern Saskatchewan into the Red River in southern Manitoba. 450 miles (725 km) long.
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Mount Assiniboine, a mountain in eastern British Columbia, Canada, in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, on the Alberta border and the Continental Divide. 11,870 feet (3,618 meters).
noun
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a member of a North American Indian people living in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Montana; one of the Sioux peoples
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the language of this people, belonging to the Siouan family
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Other Indigenous languages, too, reflect an initial unfamiliarity with the beasts: Blackfeet called them “elk dogs,” Comanche “magic dogs,” the Assiniboine “great dogs.”
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 29, 2023
A facility built by the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes on the Fort Peck Reservation specifically for quarantining Yellowstone bison has been attempting to do just that.
From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2021
Andrew Werk Jr., president of the Assiniboine and Gros Ventre Tribes on Montana’s Fort Belknap Reservation, said Republicans’ brusque treatment of Haaland was unfair to her and to Americans.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 25, 2021
We were just given essential worker status by the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes.
From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2020
“There are our friends the Arapaho and the Cheyenne. Our enemies, too, the Crow. Then the Assiniboine, Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara. Our relatives the Dakota and the Nakota are here, too.”
From "In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse" by Joseph Marshall III
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