A member of a Native American people historically located in the northern Great Plains and Canada, also spelled Assiniboine.
From Ojibwe 'asiini' (stone) and 'bwaan' (roaster)—originally meaning 'those who cook with stones.' The English spelling varies, but all derive from this Ojibwe description of their cooking methods.
This word is a perfect example of how indigenous peoples got named by outsiders in their own languages—it's the Ojibwe word for them, not the Assiniboin's own name for themselves, and it stuck in English permanently.
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