Assiniboine

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The Assiniboine are a Siouan-speaking people closely related linguistically to the Sioux and Stoney. Contemporary Assiniboine live on two reservations in northern Montana and on four reserves in southern Saskatchewan. The traditional economy was focused on buffalo hunting for food and for most material culture.

Identifier

Region

• North America

Subregion

• Plains and Plateau

Subsistence Type

• hunter-gatherers

Samples

• EA
• SRS

Countries

• Canada
• United States

External Links

• Assiniboine (Binford Hunter-Gatherer) D-PLACE
• Assiniboine (Ethnographic Atlas) D-PLACE