Atsina

Atsina are also now settled in Montana, while the Sassi are in

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

Again, our knowledge of the eastern Algonquian tribes dates back to about 1600, while no information was had concerning the Atsina, Blackfeet, Cheyenne, and the Arapaho, the westernmost members of the family, until two centuries later.

Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 John Wesley Powell 1868

Very likely much of the area occupied by the Atsina was formerly Shoshonean territory.

Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 John Wesley Powell 1868

The Choctaw said, Apalachi ` helpers, allies '; the Blackfoot, Atsina

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 2 1992

_Assiniboin_ or "Stone" Indians (because they used hot stones in cooking), the "Crows" or Absaroka, the Hidatsa or Minitari (also called Big Bellies, like the quite distinct Atsina of the Algonkin family), the Menómini (the most north-eastern amongst the Siouan tribes, and the first met with by the British and French Canadians south-west of Lake Superior), the Winnebagos on the southern borders of Manitoba, the Yanktons or Yanktonnais, the "_Santi Siou_" proper -- generally calling themselves _Dakota_ or Mdewakanton -- and the

Pioneers in Canada Harry Hamilton Johnston 1892