Assiniboin People

Spelling variations: Assiniboin, Assiniboine

Linguistic group: Siouan

Originally part of the Yanktonai tribe of Dakota Indians, separated in early 1700's and settled in area between the Saskatchewan and Missouri Rivers

Brief Timeline
1870's:  settled on reservations in the United Sates-Fort Belknap Reservation (with Gros Ventre Tribe) and Fort Peck Reservation (with Sioux Tribes) and Canada- tracts of land in Saskatchewan and Alberta (with Sioux, Cree and Chippewa)

Reservations
The major residence of the Assiniboin(e) Tribe is on the Fort Peck Reservation in Montana.

Montana: Fort Belknap and Fort Peck

Sourthen Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada

Additional References to the History of the Tribe
Frederick Webb Hodge, in his Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, gave a more complete history of the Assiniboin tribe, with estimations of the population of the tribe at various time periods. Additional details are given in John Swanton's The Indian Tribes of North America and in David Bushnell's Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi.

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Records
Agency Records

Correspondence and Census

Treaties


 * 1851 September 17, at Fort Laramie
 * October 17, 1855, referred to in Blackfeet treaty

Vital Records


 * Fort Peck Agency, M595, Births and Deaths 1925-1932 FHL Film: 576847

Important Web Sites

 * Assiniboine Indians Wikipedia