Assiniboine


a river in S Canada, flowing S and E from SE Saskatchewan into the Red River in S Manitoba. 450 miles (725 km) long.
Mount, a mountain in E British Columbia, Canada, in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, on the Alberta border and the Continental Divide. 11,870 feet (3618 meters).
Historical Examples

Their course was in the same direction as that of the Assiniboine, which very winding river they occasionally sighted.
Rob Nixon W.H.G. Kingston

I was thinking of the strange gossip of the Assiniboine encampment.
Lords of the North A. C. Laut

We found there white men different from those who had come to the Assiniboine River and built a fort.
Rising Wolf the White Blackfoot James Willard Schultz

From that point he would be guided by the footprints of the Assiniboine animals.
Deerfoot in The Mountains Edward S. Ellis

“The red-headed young man is not so bad,” said one of the white news-bearers at the Assiniboine post.
The Magnificent Adventure Emerson Hough

In the language of the modern West, the Assiniboine “had the drop” on the Shawanoe.
Deerfoot in The Mountains Edward S. Ellis

Far over to the Sioux went presents and messages, even to the distant Assiniboine.
The Conquest Eva Emery Dye

At the end of July they were back again at the Assiniboine River.
Montreal 1535-1914 under the French Rgime William Henry Atherton

His reason for this was his wish to place himself in the same situation as the Assiniboine party.
Deerfoot in The Mountains Edward S. Ellis

After arriving on the Assiniboine river, we camped there for a few days.
Then and Now Robert Vaughn

noun
a river in W Canada, rising in E Saskatchewan and flowing southeast and east to the Red River at Winnipeg. Length: over 860 km (500 miles)
noun
(pl) -boine, -boines. a member of a North American Indian people living in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Montana; one of the Sioux peoples
the language of this people, belonging to the Siouan family

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