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The Assiniboine were a Siouan-speaking people of the northern Plains, whose ancestors separated from the Sioux before the 17th century. They moved west from the Minnesota woodlands, acquired horses and hunted bison.

In the 1690s Hudson’s Bay Company employee Henry Kelsey described the Assiniboine. In the 18th century they and the Cree were part of the Iron Confederacy, whose bands traded furs and European goods across the northern Plains. By 1806 they were recorded in the Assiniboine River valley.