Assiniboines

Assiniboine

Full Moon, an Assiniboine woman, 1900
Total population
(3,500)
Regions with significant populations
Canada ( Saskatchewan)  United States ( Montana)
Languages
Assiniboine, English
Religion
traditional tribal religion, Sun Dance, Native American Church, Christianity
Related ethnic groups
Dakota, Stoney

The Assiniboine or Assiniboin people (/əˈsɪnᵻbɔɪn/ when singular, /əˈsɪnᵻbɔɪnz/ when plural; Ojibwe: Asinaan, "stone Sioux"; also in plural Assiniboine or Assiniboin), also known as the Hohe and known by the endonym Nakota (or Nakoda or Nakona), are a First Nations/Native American people originally from the Northern Great Plains of North America.

Today, they are centered in present-day Saskatchewan. They have also populated parts of Alberta and southwestern Manitoba in Canada, and northern Montana and western North Dakota in the United States. They were well known throughout much of the late 18th and early 19th century, and were members of the Iron Confederacy with the Cree. Images of Assiniboine people were painted by such 19th-century artists as Karl Bodmer and George Catlin.