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Assiniboine

An Ojibwa term meaning ‘people who cook with hot stones.’

Assiniboine (Stoney or Nakoda)

The Assiniboine people broke from the Yankton Sioux and thereafter associated largely with the Cree. Three hundred years ago they lived in Minnesota at the edge of the parklands and plains, they were deer and buffalo hunters and engaged in some horticulture.

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