Nakota is the endonym used by those Native peoples of North America who usually go by the name of Assiniboine, in the United States, and of Stoney, in Canada.
Dressing a horse for a ceremony, Nakoda summer camp near Banff, Alberta
The Assiniboine are an Indigenous people of the Northern Plains. They are a First Nations in Canada, where they primarily live in Saskatchewan, with some living in Alberta and southwestern Manitoba, a
Nakota
…Nakota (or Nakoda or Nakona) is the endonym used by those Native peoples of North America who usually go by the name of Assiniboine (or Hohe), in the United States, and of Stoney, in Canada. The Assiniboine branched off from the Great Sioux Nation (aka the Oceti Sakowin) around 1640…
Two Assiniboine warriors, painted by Karl Bodmer in the 1840s
Mounted Assiniboine warrior attacking a Blackfoot. Drawn by an Assiniboine warrior at Fort Union
Assiniboine Hunting Buffalo, 1851
Assiniboine family, Montana, 1890–1891