Insaombi

The Insaombi were an Assiniboine people associated with the Cypress Hills and the neighbouring plains of southern Saskatchewan. Their name has been interpreted as “those who stay alone,” and they were also known as the Cypress Hills Assiniboine. The wooded hills rise above the surrounding prairie, offering a different landscape from the open grasslands where bison grazed. The Insaombi belonged to a wider Assiniboine world connected by language, kinship and movement across the northern Plains.