Assiniboine

American  

[uh-sin-uh-boin] / əˈsɪn əˌbɔɪn /

noun

1. a river in southern Canada, flowing south and east from southeastern Saskatchewan into the Red River in southern Manitoba. 450 miles (725 km) long.

2. 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).

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Assiniboine ¹ British  

/ əˈsɪnəˌbɔɪn /

noun

1. a member of a North American Indian people living in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Montana; one of the Sioux peoples

2. the language of this people, belonging to the Siouan family

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Assiniboine ² British  

/ əˈsɪnɪˌbɔɪn /

noun

1. a river in W Canada, rising in E Saskatchewan and flowing southeast and east to the Red River at Winnipeg. Length: over 860 km (500 miles)

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Example Sentences

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

We were just given essential worker status by the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes.

From Slate • Oct. 29, 2020

In 1886, Washington designated Fort Peck, a swath now comprising 2 million acres of Montana’s northeastern plains, for the Assiniboine and Sioux tribes.

From Salon • Dec. 29, 2018

The Billings Gazette reports that Zinke met with the executive board of the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes on Sunday.

From Seattle Times • May 27, 2018

“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