Assiniboin People

Alternate Names: Assiniboin, Assiniboine Ancestral Homelands: Linguistic group: Siouan

Brief Timeline
1870's: settled on reservations in the United States - Fort Belknap Reservation (with Gros Ventre Tribe) and Fort Peck Reservation (with Sioux Tribes) and Canada- tracts of land in Saskatchewan and Alberta (with Sioux, Cree and Chippewa)

Brief History
Originally part of the Yanktonai tribe of Dakota Indians, separated in early 1700's and settled in area between the Saskatchewan and Missouri Rivers

Reservations
The major residence of the Assiniboin(e) Tribe is on the Fort Peck Reservation in Montana.

Some Assiniboin also reside at Fort Belknap Reservation.

Members of the tribe also reside in Southern Alberta and Saskatchewan in Canada.

Additional References to the History of the Tribe

 * Frederick Webb Hodge, in his Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, gave a more complete history of the Assiniboin tribe, with estimations of the population of the tribe at various time periods.
 * Additional details are given in John Swanton's The Indian Tribes of North America
 * David Bushnell's Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi.
 * Fort Belknap Indian Community website has page of Assiniboine history


 * For additional history of the tribe, read more....

Tribal Headquarters
Fort Belknap Indian Community RR1, Box 66 101 Tribal Way Harlem, MT 59526 Phone: (406) 353-2205 Fax: (406) 353-4541 Official Website: www.ftbelknap-nsn.gov

Records
Agency Records

Agencies which had responsibilities for the Assiniboin Indians included:


 * Fort Belknap Agency
 * Fort Berthold Agency
 * Fort Peck Agency
 * Upper Missouri Agency

Correspondence and Census

Treaties


 * 1851 September 17, at Fort Laramie, with Sioux
 * October 17, 1855, referred to in Blackfeet treaty

Vital Records


 * Fort Peck Agency, M595, Births and Deaths 1925-1932, FHL Film: 576847

Important Web Sites

 * Fort Belknap Indian Community Website for both Assiniboine and Gros Ventre Indians
 * Assiniboine Indians Wikipedia article