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.
Read more about this topic: Great Sioux Nation
Famous quotes containing the word canada:
“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)
“What makes the United States government, on the whole, more tolerable—I mean for us lucky white men—is the fact that there is so much less of government with us.... But in Canada you are reminded of the government every day. It parades itself before you. It is not content to be the servant, but will be the master; and every day it goes out to the Plains of Abraham or to the Champs de Mars and exhibits itself and toots.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante’s scheme, Limbo is to Hell.”
—Irving Layton (b. 1912)