Stoney Groups
The Stoney are descendants of individual bands of Dakota, 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 (Chan Tonga Nakoda- ‘Big Woods People’, often called Swampy Ground Assiniboine, northern tribal group)
- Alexis' band (Stoney, Métis, Woodland Cree)
- Paul's band (Danezaa, Stoney, Woodland Cree, Iroquois)
Mountain Stoney (Ye Xa Yabine Nakoda or Hebina - ‘Rock Mountain People’, often called Strong Wood Assiniboine, Thickwood Assiniboine, southern tribal group)
- Wesley's (Goodstoney's) band (Stoney, Plains Cree, Métis, Kutenai)
- Chiniki's band (Métis, Stoney, Plains Cree, Secwepemc, Kutenai)
- Bearspaw's band (Stoney, Cree)
- Sharphead's band (Chipos Ostikwan's Nakoda, Wolf Creek Stoney or Pigeon Lake Stoney, often called Plains Assiniboine) (Stoney, Métis)
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