In addition to endemic warfare with the Assiniboine to the north, and occasional conflict with the Lakota, the Cheyenne warred with the Crow.

At the time of European contact, the dominant tribe were the Assiniboine and the Lakota ( or Sioux, as the French colonists called them ).

At the time of European contact in the 16th century, the dominant tribes were the Assiniboine and the Lakota ( or Sioux, as the French colonists called them ).

These included the Blackfoot, Arapaho, Assiniboine, Cheyenne, Comanche, Crow, Gros Ventre, Kiowa, Lakota, Lipan, Plains Apache ( or Kiowa Apache ), Plains Cree, Plains Ojibwe, Sarsi, Shoshone, Stoney, and Tonkawa.

At the time of 16th century French exploration and fur trading, historical Native American tribes included the Lakota ( Sioux, as the French called them ), the Chippewa ( Ojibwe ) and the Assiniboine.

The Pembina area was historically at the borders of the territories of the Lakota, the Chippewa and the Assiniboine, Native American tribes, who competed for hegemony.

By 1804 when Lewis and Clark visited the tribe, the number of Mandan had been greatly reduced by smallpox epidemics and warring bands of Assiniboine, Lakota and Arikara.

These include the Blackfoot, Arapaho, Assiniboine, Cheyenne, Comanche, Crow, Gros Ventre, Kiowa, Lakota Sioux, Lipan, Plains Apache ( or Kiowa Apache ), Plains Cree, Plains Ojibwe, Sarsi, Nakoda ( Stoney ), and Tonkawa.

The Assiniboine have many similarities to the Lakota Sioux in culture and language.

Speakers of Lakota and Dakota do not understand either of the two Nakoda languages ( Assiniboine and Stoney ).

Lakota and Dakota speakers cannot understand Assiniboine readily.

Skilled American bison hunters and horsemen, the Plains Cree were allied with the Assiniboine and the Saulteaux before they encountered French settlers in the 18th century.

* Payipwāt ( or Piapot: " who Knows the Secrets of the Sioux "), also known as " Hole in the Sioux " or Kisikawasan-‘ Flash in the Sky ’, Chief of the Cree-Assiniboine or the Young Dogs with great influence on neighboring Assiniboine, Downstream People, southern groups of the Upstream People and Saulteaux ( Plains Ojibwa ), born 1816, kidnapped as a child by the Sioux, he was freed about 1830 by Plains Cree, significant Shaman, most influential chief of the feared Young Dogs, convinced the Plains Cree to expand west in the Cypress Hills, the last refugee for bison groups, therefore disputed border area between Sioux, Assiniboine, Siksika Kainai and Cree, refused to participate in the raid on a Kainai camp near the present Lethbridge, Alberta, then the Young Dogs and their allies were content with the eastern Cypress Hills to the Milk River, Montana, does not participate at the negotiations on the Treaty 4 of 1874, he and Cheekuk, the most important chief of the Plains Ojibwa in the Qu ' Appelle area, signed on 9 September 1875 the treaty only as preliminary contract, tried with the chiefs of the River Cree Minahikosis (" Little Pine ") and Mistahi-maskwa (" Big Bear ") to erect a kind of Indian Territory for all the Plains Cree, Plains Ojibwa and Assiniboine-as Ottawa refused, he asked 1879-80 along with Kiwisünce ( cowessess-' Little Child ') and the Assiniboine for adjacent reserves in the Cypress Hills, Payipwāt settled in a reserve about 37 miles northeast of Fort Walsh, Minahikosis (" Little Pine ") and Papewes (‘ Lucky Man ’) asked successfully for reserves near the Assiniboine or Payipwāt-this allowed the Cree and Assiniboine to preserve their autonomy-because they went 1881 in Montana on bison hunting, stole Absarokee horses and alleged cattle killed, arrested the U. S. Army the Cree-Assiniboine group, disarmed and escorted them back to Canada-now unarmed, denied rations until the Cree and Assiniboine gave up their claims to the Cypress Hills and went north-in the following years the reserves changed several times and the tribes were trying repeated until to the Northwest Rebellion in 1885 to build an Indian Territory, Payipwāt remained under heavy guard, until his death he was a great spiritual leader, therefore Ottawa deposed Payipwāt on 15 April 1902 as chief, died in April 1908 on Piapot Reserve, Saskatchewan )

The 1913 Handbook of Indians of Canada ( reprinting 1907 material from the Bureau of American Ethnology ), claims that North American natives practicing cannibalism included "... the Montagnais, and some of the tribes of Maine ; the Algonkin, Armouchiquois, Iroquois, and Micmac ; farther west the Assiniboine, Cree, Foxes, Chippewa, Miami, Ottawa, Kickapoo, Illinois, Sioux, and Winnebago ; in the South the people who built the mounds in Florida, and the Tonkawa, Attacapa, Karankawa, Caddo, and Comanche (?

With the arrival of the Chippewa approximately 800 years ago, conflicts between the Assiniboine and the Chippewa pursued.

' Assiniboine is the name of an Indian tribe and is derived from ' assine ' a stone and ' bwan ' native name of the Sioux, hence Stony Sioux name was possibly given because they used heated stones in cooking their food.

Historically the Cypress Hills were a meeting and conflict area for various American Indian and First Nations peoples including the Cree, Assiniboine, Atsina, Blackfoot, Saulteaux, Sioux, Crow, and others.

Oral history accounts suggest Poundmaker went to the fort to speak with the Indian agent, Rae, and reaffirm his loyalty to the Queen after a murder at the nearby Mosquito Reserve ; however, the people of Battleford and some of the settlers in the surrounding area, hearing reports of large numbers of Cree and Assiniboine leaving reserves and making their way to Battleford, feared for their safety.

* Fort Peck Tribes ( about 11, 786 Hudesabina, Wadopabina, Wadopahnatonwan, Sahiyaiyeskabi, Inyantonwanbina and Fat Horse Band of the Assiniboine, Sisseton, Wahpeton, Yanktonai and Hunkpapa of the Sioux live together on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation near Fort Peck in NE Montana north of the Missouri River, ca.

* Fort Belknap Indian Community ( of about 5, 426 registered Assiniboine and Gros Ventre the majority live on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation-505 of them off the reserve-in north central Montana, largest city is Fort Belknap Agency, ca.

* How the Summer Season Came And Other Assiniboine Indian Stories.

Assiniboine Legends, Saskatoon: Saskatchewan Indian Cultural College, 1973.

Assiniboine Legends, Saskatoon: Saskatchewan Indian Cultural College, 1973.

Today the Gros Ventre people are enrolled in the Fort Belknap Indian Community of the Fort Belknap Reservation of Montana, a federally recognized tribe with 3, 682 enrolled members, that also includes Assiniboine people or Nakoda people, the Gros Ventre's historical enemies.

A common hunting ground north of the Missouri River on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation included the Assiniboine and Siuox.

* Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montana

He visited eighteen tribes, including the Pawnee, Omaha, and Ponca in the south and the Mandan, Hidatsa, Cheyenne, Crow, Assiniboine, and Blackfeet to the north.

Here along the modern border of the United States and Canada, the Cree, Monsoni, and Assiniboine tribes were first native American contacts.

The Europeans and Americans adopted names that other tribes used for the Assiniboine ; only later learning the self-appellation of this tribe, or autonym.

Other tribes associated " stone " with the Assiniboine because they primarily cooked with heated stones.

Today, a substantial number of Assiniboine people live jointly with other tribes, like the Plains Cree, Saulteaux, Sioux and Gros Ventre, in several reservations in Canada and the United States.

Saskatchewan ’ s Assiniboine and Stoney tribes also claim identification with the Sioux tradition.

These trading posts were providing guns to the Cree and Assiniboine tribes in what is now present day Canada.

By an act of Congress on May 1, 1888, ( Stat., L., XXV, 113 ), the Blackfeet, Gros Ventre, and Assiniboine tribes ceded 17, 500, 000 acres of their joint reservation and agreed to live upon three smaller reservations.

At this post, the Assiniboine, Crow, Cree, Ojibwe, Blackfoot, Hidatsa, and other tribes traded buffalo robes and furs for trade goods including items such as beads, clay pipes, guns, blankets, knives, cookware, cloth, and especially alcohol.

* Hebina ( Ye Xa Yabine, ‘ Rock Mountain People ’, often called Strong Wood or Thickwood Assiniboine, later a core band of the Mountain Stoney-Nakoda )

* Pitikwahanapiwiyin ( Pîhtokahânapiwiyin-‘ Poundmaker ’, Chief of the River Cree, born about 1842 in the North Battleford Region in Saskatchewan ; son of Sikakwayan (‘ Skunk Skin ’), an shaman of the Assiniboine and a Franco-Canadian Métisse, the sister of Chief Mistāwasis (" Big Child "), Chief of a band consisting of Plains River Cree ( Sīpīwininiwak-paskwāwiyiniwak ), Woods River Cree (‘ Sīpīwininiwak-sakāwiyiniwak ’), Western Woodland Cree ( Sakāwiyiniwak ) and Nakoda ( Stoney ), was adopted in 1873 by the Siksika chief Crowfoot as son, lived several years by the Blackfeet-name Makoyi-koh-kin (‘ Wolf Thin Legs ’) under the Siksika, returned to the Cree, became counselor of the Chief Pihew-kamihkosit (‘ Red Pheasant ’), was involved in the negotiations for the Treaty 6 in 1876 and went in 1879 in the Poundmaker reservation, later he participated in the siege of Battleford and the Battle of Cut Knife, died 4 July 1886 in Blackfoot Crossing, Alberta )

Seven hundred miles south of York Factory, at `` the Forks '' of the Red and the Assiniboine, twenty-three men located a settlement in August 1812.

In 1841 James Sinclair, on orders from Sir George Simpson, guided nearly 200 settlers from the Red River Colony ( located at the junction of the Assiniboine River and Red River near present Winnipeg, Canada ) into the Oregon territory.

Numerous communities are located on the banks of the Athabasca River, including Jasper, Brule, Entrance, Hinton, Whitecourt, Fort Assiniboine, Smith, Athabasca, Fort McMurray, and Fort MacKay.

The city is located along the Assiniboine River.

Brandon is located in western Manitoba, on the banks of the Assiniboine river.

Battleford ( Assiniboine: ogíciza wakpá ) ( 2006 Population 3, 685 ) is a town located across the North Saskatchewan River from North Battleford, in Saskatchewan, Canada.

Mount Assiniboine, also known as Assiniboine Mountain, is a mountain located on the Great Divide, on the British Columbia / Alberta border in Canada.

It was located on the Assiniboine River near where present day Portage La Prairie stands.

Portage la Prairie is located approximately west of Winnipeg, along the Trans Canada Highway ( located exactly between the provincial borders of Saskatchewan and Ontario ), and sits on the Assiniboine River, which flooded the town persistently until a diversion channel north to Lake Manitoba ( the Assiniboine River Floodway ) was built to divert the flood waters.

It is located in the southwestern part of the city, and is bordered by the Assiniboine River to the north, the Rural Municipality of Macdonald to the south, the Rural Municipality of Headingley on the west and the Assiniboine Park and Forest to the east.

Cranberry Portage, located in the Rural Municipality of Kelsey, Manitoba, was an important part of the pre-European contact trade routes of the Cree and Assiniboine peoples.

* Pheasant Rump Nakota First Nation ( reserve: Treaty Four Reserve Grounds # 77, Tribal Headquarters are located in Kisby, about 333 Assiniboine, Salteaux ( Anishinabe ) and Cree )

The college is located on the Fort Peck Assiniboine & Sioux Reservation in the northeast corner of Montana, with its main campus in Poplar.

Renner grew up at remote Mount Assiniboine Lodge, the oldest backcountry ski lodge in the Canadian Rockies, located southwest of Banff and Canmore, Alberta, just across the British Columbia provincial border.

It is located about seven kilometres southwest of downtown Winnipeg and borders the Assiniboine River on the north, and Assiniboine Park and Forest on the west.

The school was originally located at Armstrong's Point on the Assiniboine River.