Pabaska

Pabaska is a name associated with the Cut Head people, a band of the Yanktonai Dakota. Their country lay on the northern Plains, a region of open grasslands and the Missouri River. The Yanktonai were part of the wider Dakota world, whose communities maintained relationships through kinship, trade and diplomacy. American observers recorded the Cut Heads among the Yankton and Yanktonai bands at the beginning of the nineteenth century, when the Missouri valley was becoming increasingly important to the fur trade.