Little Assiniboine
At a glance:
- Series: Magill's Choice: American Indian Biographies, Revised Edition
- Categories: Military History
- Subcategories: Native Americans, American Indians
- Curriculum: American Civil War & Reconstruction Era (1856-1877), American History 1878-1900, American Indian History
Article abstract: Adopted as a brother by the Sioux leader Sitting Bull,{$ISitting Bull;and Little Assiniboine[Little Assiniboine]} Little Assiniboine steadfastly supported Sitting Bull in warring, accompanied him in hunting, and died with him.
Little Assiniboine was a childhood name given to a young boy from the Assiniboine tribe taken captive by the Hunkpapa Lakota (Sioux). In the winter of 1857 a small war party of Hunkpapa Lakota mounted a raid north of the Missouri River in what is now Montana. They came upon a lone tipi and scared the family out. The...
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