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Assiniboin

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As·sin·i·boin also As·sin·i·boine  (-sn-boin)
n. pl. Assiniboin or As·sin·i·boins also Assiniboine or As·sin·i·boines
1.
a. A Native American people formerly inhabiting southern Manitoba, now located in Montana, Alberta, and Saskatchewan. The Assiniboin became nomadic buffalo hunters after migrating to the northern Great Plains in the 18th century.
b. A member of this people.
2. The Siouan language of the Assiniboin.
[French Assiniboine, of Ojibwa origin.]
As·sini·boin adj.
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In some active languages there is even a third paradigm (or set of person markers) for involuntary actions like verbs of perception and mental states (verba sentiendi et affectuum) or 'laugh', 'sleep' and the like (this is found, for instance, in Assiniboin (Sioux family, Sioux phyle)).
Unmarked object in the Uralic languages. A diachronic typological ... by Havas, Ferenc / Linguistica Uralica
One of the first images of an Indian and a top hat was the George Catlin painting of the Assiniboin man, Wi-ju-jon, or The Pigeon's Egg Head (also known as The Light) in 1832, going to Washington, D.
Top hats on the plains by Durkin, Peter J. / Whispering Wind
Throughout, we see Blackfoot, Cree, Assiniboin, and Metis in conflict with the newcomers and with each other, but they dominate rather than play bit parts in the rugged and still-wild terrain of Trafford's novel.
Book brings Plains Indian horse culture alive by Taillon, Joan / Ontario Birchbark
 
 
 
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