Nakota


Nakota / Nakoda / Nakona // Îyârhe
"ally / friend" // "mountain"
PersonAssiniboine: Nakóda
Stoney: Îyethka
PeopleAssiniboine: Nakón Oyáde
Stoney: Îyethkabi / Îyethka Oyade
LanguageAssiniboine:
(oral): Nakón Iyábi
(sign): Nakón Wíyutabi
Stoney:
(oral): Îyethka Îabi / wîchoîe
(sign): Îyethka Wowîhâ
CountryAssiniboine: Nakón Mąkóce
Stoney: Îyethka Makóce

Nakota (or Nakoda or Nakona)[1] is the endonym used by those Native peoples of North America who usually go by the name of Assiniboine (or Hohe), in the United States, and of Stoney, in Canada.

The Assiniboine branched off from the Great Sioux Nation (aka the Oceti Sakowin) long ago and moved further west from the original territory in the woodlands of what is now Minnesota into the northern and northwestern regions of Montana and North Dakota in the United States, and Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta in Canada. In each of the Western Siouan language dialects, nakota, dakota and lakota all mean "friend".[citation needed]

  1. ^ For the usage of the term "nakona" by Fort Peck's Assiniboine, cf. http://fpcctalkindian.nativeweb.org/ and http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/hisamples/HI-TCU-FortPeck.pdf Archived 2011-06-15 at the Wayback Machine