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ASSINIBOIN (" Stone-Cookers ")

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 782 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ASSINIBOIN (" See also:Stone-Cookers ")  , a tribe of See also:North See also:American See also:Indians of Siouan stock . Their name (see above) is said to refer to their method of boiling See also:water by dropping red-hot stones into it . Their former range was between the See also:Missouri and the See also:middle See also:Saskatchewan on both sides of the See also:Canadian frontier . In 1904there were 1234 in the See also:United States, all on reservations in See also:Montana; and in 1902 there were 1371 in See also:Canada . See Handbook of American Indians, ed . F . W . See also:Hodge (See also:Washington, 1907) .

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