188 DAKOTA GRAMMAR, TEXTS, AND ETHNOGRAPHY. 
the country of the Upper Missouri. The war of 1876 made it somewhat 
notorious under its war chief “Sitting Bull,” or “Sitting Buffalo,” as Tatayka 
iyotaynke ought to be translated. 
This article, on the Migrations of the Dakota, will not be complete, 
without a brief notice of the affiliated tribes. The Dakota family, as shown 
by similarity of language, is quite extensive. 
ASSINIBOIN. 
I. Evidently the first to claim our attention, outside of the Dakota 
themselves, is the Assiniboin tribe. Indeed they are a part of the great 
Dakota Nation. Their language differs less from the Dakota in general, 
than the dialects of the Dakota do from each other. In our historical nar- 
rative of the Dakota, we found the knowledge of the Assiniboin coming to 
white people at the same time, and along with that of the Dakota proper. 
More than two centuries ago Assiniboin and Dakota met the French traders 
at the head of Lake Superior. The Assiniboin are said to have broken off 
from the Pine Shooters (Wazikute), a branch of the [hayktoywayna. 
At that time the split, by which they ranged themselves as a separate 
people, appears to have been a recent thing. The name ‘ Bway,” applied 
by the Ojibwa to the whole Dakota people, fastened itself on that branch. 
They are Stone Dakota. And at the present time, we have information of 
a small family of the Assiniboin people living on the Saskatchewan, which 
goes by the name of Stonies. The name given to the Assiniboin by the 
Dakota is Hohe,' the origin and meaning of which are in the darkness. 
At the time we first learn anything of the Assiniboin, they appear to 
have been occupying the country of the Red River of the North, probably 
both on the eastern and western side. ‘Vheir migrations have been north- 
ward and westward. About the middle of the seventeenth century a 
French pilot, by name Grosellier, roamed into the country of the Assini- 
boin, near Lake Winnipeg, and was taken by them to Hudson Bay. In 
1803 Lewis and Clarke met Assiniboin at their winter camp near where 
Fort Stevenson now is. But their movement westward seems to have been 
mainly farther north up the Assiniboin and Saskatchewan rivers. At pres- 
ent they are found in the neighborhood of Fort Peck, on the Upper Mis- 
souri, but the most of them are within the Dominion of Canada. 
' Pronounced ho'-hay. There is also a Hohe gens among the Sihasapa Titonway. Hohe is said 
to mean ‘ Rebels.”—vJ. 0. pb. 
