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=**Assiniboine/Nakota**=

__History__
Before the seventeenth century the Assiniboine lived in the southeast as the Nakton branch of the Sioux Nation. Over a couple of centuries they moved to what is now the area between Illinoise and eastern North Dakota. Although there are many stories as of to why the Nakota tribe split from the Sioux Nation, there is no way to know for sure

__Location__
There are thirty-three bands of the Assiniboine tribe that live in eastern British Columbia, northern Alberta, northern Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Montana The Assiniboines in Montana live on either the Fort Belknap reservation with the Gros Ventres. Or on the Fort Peck with the Sioux.

**__Interactions__**
The Nakota Tribe was one of the first tribes to accept the Europeans.When a permmanent trading post on Hudson's Bay was established in 1760, the Nakota and the Cree started trading with white men. The Nakota would bring buffalo robes, furs, feathers, and corn to trade for knives, guns, and bullets. In 1867 Abe Farwell opened the Fort Peck trading post, the Sioux and Nakota people were two of the major tribes that traded there. The Nakot traibe had an estimate of 10,000 people befor 1780 but then smallpox were brought to the tribe. It is said that the disease killed one-half to two-thirds of the tribe between 1780–1781. Thats not the end of it, between 1819–1820 measles and whooping cough struck the people and again reduced the population by one-half. The population began to recover, but sixty percent of the tribe had died. By 1908 the Nakota population was placed at 2,090, over a seventy-five per cent decrease.
 * Fur Trade
 * Small Pox

In 1892 a government school was established in Poplar. Since the agency recorded all the births, a list was made of all the children that were old enough to go to the school. the Indian police had to bring the children in, on occasion the entire police force would be called because the family of a child did not want to send them to school. By 1898 there were over 300 children attending the school, many boys tired to run away but by the time they got home the police were already there to bring them back.
 * Missionary Schools

__Tribe Name__
The name Assiniboine comes from the Ojibwe word Assinipwan, it means "stone water people." The assiniboine however call themselves Nakota, or Nakoda which means the allies.

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Work Cited Page
1. Miller, David R. "The Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan | Details." //The Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan | Home//. Web. 29 Sept. 2011. []

2. "History of the Assiniboine." //The Montana Professor Academic Journal//. Web. 29 Sept. 2011. []. 3. Long, James Larpenteur, and William Standing. //Land of Nakoda: the Story of the Assiniboine Indians : from the Tales of the Old Ones Told to First Boy (James L. Long)//. Helena, MT: Riverbend Pub. in Cooperation with the Montana Historical Society, 2004. Print.

4. "Billings Area - Fort Peck Service Unit Community." //Indian Health Service//. Web. 29 Sept. 2011. []. 5. "Tribal Legacy Project." //Welcome//. Web. 29 Sept. 2011. .