Assiniboine

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The Assiniboine are a Native American/First Nations people of the Northern Plains, closely related to the Sioux and historically known as nomadic bison hunters and traders across what is now the northern United States and southern Canada.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Assiniboine canonical 10
Stoney-Assiniboine 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf First Nations people
Indigenous people
Native American people
alliedWith Cree
alsoKnownAs Hohe
Nakota
closelyRelatedTo Sioux people
surface form: Sioux
continent North America
country Canada
United States of America
culturalArea Plains culture area
ethnicGroupOf Canada
United States of America
surface form: United States
historicalActivity trading on the Northern Plains
historicalRole middlemen in the fur trade
historicalTerritory Alberta
surface form: present-day Alberta

present-day Manitoba
present-day Montana
present-day North Dakota
present-day Saskatchewan
languageBranch Dakotan branch of Siouan
languageFamily Siouan languages
partOf Plains Indigenous cultures
presentDayCommunities First Nations reserves in Manitoba
First Nations reserves in Saskatchewan
reservations in Montana
reservations in North Dakota
recognizedAs First Nation in Canada
Native American tribe in the United States
religion Christianity
traditional Indigenous spirituality
selfIdentification Stoney Nakoda
surface form: Nakoda
traditionalEconomy fur trade
intertribal trade
traditionalFood bison meat
pemmican
traditionalHousing tipi
traditionalLanguage Assiniboine language
traditionalLifestyle nomadic
traditionalRegion Great Plains
surface form: Northern Great Plains

Great Plains
surface form: Northern United States Plains

Western Canada
surface form: Prairie Provinces of Canada
traditionalSubsistence bison hunting
treatyHistory signatories to treaties with the Canadian government
signatories to treaties with the United States government
UNESCOClassification Indigenous peoples of North America
usesWritingSystem Latin alphabet

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Referenced by (11)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Blackfoot historicalRivals Assiniboine
Dakota relatedEthnicGroup Assiniboine
Plains Cree relatedGroup Assiniboine
Gros Ventre historicalAlly Assiniboine
Assiniboine language alternativeName Assiniboine
this entity surface form: Stoney-Assiniboine
Nakota relatedEthnonym Assiniboine
Gros Ventre people historicalEnemy Assiniboine