ASSINIBOIN ("

See also:

• STONE
• STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
• STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
• STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
• STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
• STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
• STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
• STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
• STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)

Stone-Cookers ")  , a tribe of North American Indians of Siouan stock . Their name (see above) is said to refer to their method of boiling water by dropping red-hot stones into it . Their former range was between the Missouri and the middle Saskatchewan on both sides of the Canadian frontier . In 1904there were 1234 in the United States, all on reservations in Montana; and in 1902 there were 1371 in Canada . See Handbook of American Indians, ed . F . W . Hodge (Washington, 1907) .