Canada
The Assiniboine (Nakota) were part of the Great Sioux Nation, and speak a Siouan language, however they defected in 1735 to join the Iron Confederacy (Cree and Saulteaux), traditional enemies of the Sioux.
Canadian First Nations such as the Nakoda (Stoney) are descendants of the Great Sioux Nations.
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Famous quotes containing the word canada:
“I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.”
—Robertson Davies (b. 1913)
“In Canada an ordinary New England house would be mistaken for the château, and while every village here contains at least several gentlemen or “squires,” there is but one to a seigniory.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“This universal exhibition in Canada of the tools and sinews of war reminded me of the keeper of a menagerie showing his animals’ claws. It was the English leopard showing his claws.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)