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This is our index of Assiniboine folktales and traditional stories that can be read online. We have organized our Native American legends section by tribe to make them easier to locate; however, variants on the same legend are often told by American Indians from different tribes, especially if those tribes are kinfolk or neighbors to each other. In particular, though these legends come from the Assiniboines, the mythology of related tribes like the Stoney and Dakota Sioux tribes are very similar.
Sitcon'ski:
This is the Assiniboine trickster figure.
Although he is portrayed as a man in Assiniboine folklore, he shares many similarities with the spider trickster
Iktomi of the related Dakota and Lakota Sioux tribes, and
many of the same stories are told in different Siouan tribes with only the identity of the protagonist differing. Indeed, Sitcon'ski
is even referred to by the borrowed Sioux name "Inktomi" by some Assiniboine storytellers.
Thunder-Bird:
The Thunder-Bird is a powerful sky spirit of Assiniboine legend.
It has the form of a giant bird, with wings that make the sound of thunder and eyes that shoot
lightning. The Thunderbird is said to be the mortal enemy of the horned serpent.
Icmá the Bear:The Crane and the Otter:The Story of Hungry Wolf:How the Summer Season Came: 
How the Morning and Evening Stars Came to Be: Assiniboine Memories: Legends of the Nakota People:Indian Legends from the Northern Rockies:American Indian Trickster Tales:
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