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'''Alternate Names:''' Assiniboin, Assiniboine<br>'''Ancestral Homelands:''' <br>'''Linguistic group:''' Siouan | '''Alternate Names:''' Assiniboin, Assiniboine<br>'''Ancestral Homelands:''' Great Lakes area<br>'''Linguistic group:''' Siouan | ||
Part of the Yanktonai Nakota | |||
Population: 1780 estimated at 10,000 1990: 5,274 in U.S. others in Canada | |||
Current locations: Montana, Alberta, and Saskatchewan | |||
== History == | == History == | ||
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==== Brief Timeline ==== | ==== Brief Timeline ==== | ||
'''Early: '''forced from Great Lakes aarea to Minnesota area by tribal warfare | |||
1855: Treaty refered to in treaty with the Blackfeet | '''1658:''' living near Lake Superior they encountered non-Indians and began trading with them | ||
'''1800-1837:''' several Assiniboin bands moved into "Montana" and the American Fur company built Fort Union | |||
'''1836:''' Smallpox epidemic killed about 4,000 | |||
'''1851:''' Treaty at Fort Laramie, they promise not attact setters travelin the Oregon Trail; and are assigned land in western Montana. | |||
'''1855:''' Treaty refered to in treaty with the Blackfeet, | |||
1866: The tribe agreed to move to Fort Buford, in "North Dakota" | |||
'''1870's:''' settled on reservations in the United States - 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) | '''1870's:''' settled on reservations in the United States - 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) | ||
1873: A massacre of Assiniboin band lead by Little Soldier, at Cypress Hill, inititated the establishment of Northwest Mounted Police by Canada. | |||
1874: Fort Belknap was established for the Gros Ventre and upper Assiniboin. | |||
'''1877:''' Treaty Seven is signed by the Blackfoot Confederacy and by the Stoney (Canadian) Assiniboin | |||
'''1877:''' Fort Peck, (Montana) became the agn for the lower Asasiniboin and the Yanktonai Nakota and Sisseton-Wahpeton (Dakota) Sioux | |||
'''1887-1934:''' General Allotment Act, (1887) began land allotment; in 1934 Land allotment of Assiniboin territory discontinued in 1934. | |||
==== Brief History ==== | ==== Brief History ==== | ||