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The Nakoda (also known as Stoney or ) are an Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Indigenous people in Western Canada and, originally, the United States.
They used to inhabit large parts of what is now Alberta, Saskatchewan and Montana, but their reserves are now located in Alberta and in Saskatchewan, where they are scarcely differentiated from the Assiniboine people, Assiniboine. Through their language they are related to the Dakota Indians, Dakota and Lakota Indians, Lakota nations of the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains, part of the large Sioux Nation.
They refer to themselves in their own Stoney language, language as "Nakota, Nakoda", meaning ''friend'', ''ally''. The name "Stoney" was given them by white explorers, because of their technique of using fire-heated rocks to boil broth in rawhide bowls. They are very closely related to the Assiniboine people, Assiniboine, who are also known as ''Stone Sioux'' (from the Ojibwe language, Ojibwe ).
Alberta's Nakoda First Nation comprises three bands: Bearspaw First Nation, Bearspaw, Chiniki First Nation, Chiniki and Wesley First Nation, Wesley.
The Stoney were "excluded" from Banff National Park between 1890 and 1920. In 2010 they were officially "welcomed back".
Book-Excerpt
/ref> ''These Mountains Are Our Sacred Places. The Story of the Stoney People.'' Univ of Toronto Press, 1977; Dundurn 1994; Fitzhenry & Whiteside 2006
The Nakoda (also known as Stoney or ) are an Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Indigenous people in Western Canada and, originally, the United States.
They used to inhabit large parts of what is now Alberta, Saskatchewan and Montana, but their reserves are now located in Alberta and in Saskatchewan, where they are scarcely differentiated from the Assiniboine people, Assiniboine. Through their language they are related to the Dakota Indians, Dakota and Lakota Indians, Lakota nations of the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains, part of the large Sioux Nation.
They refer to themselves in their own Stoney language, language as "Nakota, Nakoda", meaning ''friend'', ''ally''. The name "Stoney" was given them by white explorers, because of their technique of using fire-heated rocks to boil broth in rawhide bowls. They are very closely related to the Assiniboine people, Assiniboine, who are also known as ''Stone Sioux'' (from the Ojibwe language, Ojibwe ).
Alberta's Nakoda First Nation comprises three bands: Bearspaw First Nation, Bearspaw, Chiniki First Nation, Chiniki and Wesley First Nation, Wesley.
The Stoney were "excluded" from Banff National Park between 1890 and 1920. In 2010 they were officially "welcomed back".
Nakota groups
The Nakota (Stoney) are descendants of individual bands of Sioux, Dakota, Lakota people, Lakota and Nakota, in particular of western groups of Assiniboine, from which they spun out as an independent group at about 1744. The Stoney were divided geographically and culturally into two tribal groups or divisions with different dialects, which in turn were further divided into several bands: Wood Stoney ( – ‘Big Woods People’, often called ''Swampy Ground Assiniboine'', northern tribal group) * Alexis First Nation, Alexis' band (Stoney, Métis, Woodland Cree) * Paul Band, Paul's band (Danezaa people, Danezaa, Stoney, Woodland Cree, Iroquois) Mountain Stoney ( or ''Hebina'' – ‘Rock Mountain People’, often called ''Strong Wood Assiniboine'', ''Thickwood Assiniboine'', southern tribal group) * Sharphead Indian Reserve, Sharphead's band (, ''Wolf Creek Stoney'' or ''Pigeon Lake Stoney'', often called ''Plains Assiniboine'') (Stoney, Métis) * Stoney Nakoda First Nation, Comprising the three following bands: *# Wesley First Nation, Wesley's (Goodstoney's) band (Stoney, Cree, Plains Cree, Métis) *# Chiniki First Nation, Chiniki's band (Métis, Stoney, Plains Cree) *# Bearspaw First Nation, Bearspaw's band (Stoney, Cree)Treaties
Members of the Nakoda nations of Paul First Nation, Paul and Alexis Nakota Sioux First Nation, Alexis signed an adhesion to Treaty 6 in 1877. In 1877, representatives of the Nakoda Nations of Bearspaw, Chiniki and Goodstoney met with representatives of the British Crown to discuss the terms of Treaty 7. In exchange for use of traditional native lands, the Crown agreed to honour their right to self-government and an ancestral way of life. They were also promised Indian reserve, reserve lands, 279 km2 situated along the Bow River between the Kananaskis River and the Ghost River, which became the Big Horn 144a, Big Horn, Stoney 142, Stoney and Eden Valley 216, Eden Valley reserves, shared between the Bearspaw, Chiniki and Goodstoney tribes.See also
*Sioux language *Nakota *First Nations in Alberta *List of Indian reserves in AlbertaFurther reading
* John Snow, Chief:January 29, 1933 – June 15, 2006Book-Excerpt
/ref> ''These Mountains Are Our Sacred Places. The Story of the Stoney People.'' Univ of Toronto Press, 1977; Dundurn 1994; Fitzhenry & Whiteside 2006
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