Nakoda people
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The Nakoda (also known as Stoney, Script error: No such module "Lang"., or Stoney Nakoda) are an Indigenous people in Western Canada and the United States.
Their territory used to be large parts of what is now Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Montana,[1] but their reserves are now in Alberta and in Saskatchewan, where they are rarely differentiated from the Assiniboine.
They refer to themselves in their language as Script error: No such module "Lang"., meaning 'friend, ally'. The name Stoney was given to them by Anglophone explorers, because of their technique of using fire-heated rocks to boil broth in rawhide bowls.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". They are very closely related to the Assiniboine, who are also known as Stone Sioux (from Template:Langx).
The Nakoda First Nation in Alberta comprises three bands: Bearspaw, Chiniki, and Goodstoney.[2]
The Stoney were "excluded" from Banff National Park between 1890 and 1920.[3] In 2010 they were officially "welcomed back".[4]
Nakoda groups
The Nakoda are descendants of individual bands of the Assiniboine, from whom they spun out as an independent group in about 1744.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". The Nakoda was divided geographically and culturally into two tribal groups or divisions with different dialects, which in turn were further divided into several bands:[5][6]
Wood Stoney (Script error: No such module "Lang". – '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 (Script error: No such module "Lang". or Hebina – 'Rock Mountain People', often called Strong Wood Assiniboine, Thickwood Assiniboine, southern tribal group)
- Sharphead's band (Script error: No such module "Lang"., Wolf Creek Stoney, or Pigeon Lake Stoney, often called Plains Assiniboine) (Stoney, Métis)
- Stoney Nakoda First Nation, Comprising the three following bands:
- Wesley's (Goodstoney's) band (Stoney, Plains Cree, Métis)
- Chiniki's band (Métis, Stoney, Plains Cree)
- Bearspaw's band (Stoney, Cree)
Treaties
Members of the Nakoda nations of Paul and 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.[7] In exchange for the use of traditional lands, the Crown agreed to honour their right to self-government and an ancestral way of life. They were also promised reserve lands, 279 km2 situated along the Bow River between the Kananaskis River and the Ghost River, which became the Big Horn, Stoney, and Eden Valley reserves, shared between the Bearspaw, Chiniki, and Goodstoney tribes.
See also
Further reading
- John Snow, Chief:[8] These Mountains Are Our Sacred Places. The Story of the Stoney People. Univ of Toronto Press, 1977; Dundurn 1994; Fitzhenry & Whiteside 2006
Notes
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