The following notice of these Indians is extracted from Dr.Richardson's Journal: The Asseenaboine, termed by the Crees Asseeneepoytuck or Stone Indians, are a tribe of Sioux who speak a dialect of the Iroquois, one of the great divisions under which the American philologists have classed the known dialects of the aborigines of North America.

The Stone Indians or, as they name themselves, Eascab, originally entered this part of the country under the protection of the Crees and, in concert with them, attacked and drove to the westward the former inhabitants of the banks of the Saskatchewan.

They are still the allies of the Crees but have now become more numerous than their former protectors.

They exhibit all the bad qualities ascribed to the Mengwe or Iroquois, the stock whence they are sprung.

Of their actual number I could obtain no precise information but it is very great.