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==== Brief Timeline ==== | ==== Brief Timeline ==== | ||
'''Early: '''forced from Great Lakes area to Minnesota area by tribal warfare | *'''Early: '''forced from Great Lakes area to Minnesota area by tribal warfare | ||
*'''1658:''' living near Lake Superior they encountered non-Indians and began trading with them | |||
'''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 | |||
'''1800-1837:''' several Assiniboin bands moved into "Montana" and the American Fur company built Fort Union | *'''1851:''' Treaty at Fort Laramie -- they promise not attack settlers traveling the Oregon Trail and are assigned land in western Montana. | ||
*'''1855:''' Tribe referred to in treaty with the Blackfeet | |||
'''1836:''' Smallpox epidemic killed about 4,000 | *'''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 in Canada - tracts of land in Saskatchewan and Alberta (with Sioux, Cree and Chippewa) | |||
'''1851:''' Treaty at Fort Laramie -- they promise not attack settlers traveling the Oregon Trail and are assigned land in western Montana. | *'''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. | |||
'''1855:''' Tribe referred to in treaty with the Blackfeet | *'''1877:''' Treaty Seven is signed by the Blackfoot Confederacy and by the Stoney (Canadian) Assiniboin | ||
*'''1877:''' Fort Peck (Montana) became the agency for the Lower Asasiniboin and the Yanktonai Nakota and Sisseton-Wahpeton (Dakota) Sioux | |||
'''1866:''' The tribe agreed to move to Fort Buford, in "North Dakota" | *'''1883-1884:''' In the winter living at Fort Peck, the rations failed to arrive and hundreds of Assiniboin perished due to starvation. | ||
*'''1887-1934:''' General Allotment Act (1887) began land allotment; land allotment of Assiniboin territory discontinued in 1934. | |||
'''1870's:''' settled on reservations in the United States - Fort Belknap Reservation (with Gros Ventre Tribe) and Fort Peck Reservation (with Sioux Tribes) - and in 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 agency for the Lower Asasiniboin and the Yanktonai Nakota and Sisseton-Wahpeton (Dakota) Sioux | |||
'''1883-1884:''' In the winter living at Fort Peck, the rations failed to arrive and hundreds of Assiniboin perished due to starvation. | |||
'''1887-1934:''' General Allotment Act (1887) began land allotment; land allotment of Assiniboin territory discontinued in 1934. | |||
==== Brief History ==== | ==== Brief History ==== | ||