Haaninin

The Haaninin, also called the Gros Ventre, were an Algonquian-speaking people of the northern Great Plains. Their ancestors and those of the Arapaho lived in the Red River valley before moving west and separating, probably in the early eighteenth century.

The Haaninin obtained horses in the mid-eighteenth century and hunted bison on the northern plains. Around 1793 they burned two Hudson's Bay Company posts in response to attacks by Cree and Assiniboine supplied with guns by the company.