The other major family of abugidas, Canadian Aboriginal syllabics, was initially developed in the 1840s by missionary and linguist James Evans for the Cree and Ojibwe languages.

Atikamekw is a dialect of Cree, and as such belongs to the Cree-Montagnais-Naskapi dialect continuum, which in turn is classified in the Central branch of the Algonquian languages of the Algic family of languages.

The young family was once taken prisoner while trapping by Tsuu T ' ina tribesmen because of their association with local Cree.

Her mother was descended from an old Canadian family of Scottish-Irish and Cree ( aboriginal ) stock, who studied piano in the class of Alfred Cortot at the École Normale de Musique de Paris ( 1935 – 1939 ).

It is usually classified as a Central Algonquian Language, along with languages such as Ojibwe, Cree, Menominee, Miami-Illinois, Shawnee and Fox but the label " Central Algonquian " signifies a geographic grouping rather than that the group of languages descended from a common ancestor language within the Algonquian family.

In this variety of Michif, the French elements were pronounced in ways that have distinctively Canadian French values for the vowels, while the Cree elements have distinctively Cree values for vowels.

The consonant forms and the vowels so represented vary from language to language, but generally approximate their Cree origins.

There are four basic vowels in Plains and Swampy Cree: a, i, e and o.

In Woods Cree, ê has merged with î, so only three basic vowels are used in that dialect.

" One Cree speaker suggested the original word that became corrupted to Eskimo might indeed have been askamiciw ( which means " he eats it raw "), and the Inuit are referred to in some Cree texts as askipiw ( which means " eats something raw ").

The name derives from Cree manitou-wapow or Ojibwa manidoobaa, both meaning " straits of Manitou, the Great Spirit ", a place referring to what are now called The Narrows in the centre of Lake Manitoba.

Many North American Native Peoples ( such as the Cree, Iroquois, Huron, Navajo, and others ) were and still are largely panentheistic, conceiving of God as both confined in God's existence in Creation but also transcendent from it.

Some abugidas, such as Ethiopic and Cree, are learned by children as syllabaries, and so are often called " syllabics ".

Michif ( also Mitchif, Mechif, Michif-Cree, Métif, Métchif, French Cree ) is the language of the Métis people of Canada and the United States, who are the descendants of First Nations women ( mainly Cree, Nakota and Ojibwe ) and fur trade workers of European ancestry ( mainly French Canadians and Scottish Canadians ).

In general, Michif noun phrase phonology, lexicon, morphology, and syntax are derived from Métis French, while verb phrase phonology, lexicon, morphology, and syntax are from a southern variety of Plains Cree.

) Articles and adjectives are also of Métis French origin, but demonstratives are from Plains Cree.

The Cree are one of the largest groups of First Nations / Native Americans in North America, with 200, 000 members living in Canada.

Their dialects and languages are the most distinct from the Cree spoken by the groups west of Lake Superior.

The French used these terms to refer to various groups of peoples in Canada, some of which are now better distinguished as Severn Anishinaabe ( Ojibwa ), who speak languages different from the Algonkian or the Cree.

If the consonants and * used in Cree are compared to their English counterparts, it is noticeable that there is little distinction of voicing.

Victor Gollum lists Cree in the Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages as one of fifty five languages that have more than 1, 000 speakers which are being actively acquired by children.

The Cree are the largest group of First Nations in Canada, with over 200, 000 members and 135 registered bands.

Other variations found in East Cree are kûkamâs, kûkamâw and kûkamesh.

With the closure of the HBC posts and stores in the second half of the 20th century, many coastal villages are now almost exclusively populated by Cree and Inuit people.

In 1967 the Mushuau Innu were settled in Utshimassits ( Davis Inlet ) on Iluikoyak Island located off the coast of Labrador Peninsula, inhibited the ability of the Mushuau Innu to continue their traditional caribou hunt on the mainland, therefore they were relocated in the winter of 2002 / 2003 to their new main settlement Natuashish ( speak: ‘ Nat-wah-sheesh ’), about 295 km north of Happy Valley-Goose Bay and 80 km southeast of Nain, Natuashish located on the mainland is only 15 km west of Utshimassits, ethnically they are Naskapi, speaking the Eastern Dialect ( Mushuau Innu or Davis Inlet variety ) of Iyuw Imuun and writing in Eastern Cree syllabics, but split off and headed to Eastern Labrador, very few ( if any ) are able to write in syllabics any more, the majority of the tribe is Catholic, which use the Montagnais Bible ( which does not use syllabics ) and therefore use the Latin alphabet, Reservation: Natuashish # 2, ca.

The Richard T. Foley Site ( 36GR52 ), William Cree House, Hughes House, and John Rex Farm are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Unlike the Cree – Montagnais – Naskapi dialect continuum with distinct n / y / l / r / ð ( th ) dialect characteristics and noticeable west-east k / č ( ch ) axis, the Ojibwe continuum is marked with vowel syncope along the west-east axis and ∅/ n along the north-south axis.

Galloway is contained by sea to the west and south, the Galloway Hills to the north, and the River Nith to the east ; the border between Kirkcudbrightshire and Wigtownshire is marked by the River Cree.

The " Battle of the Belly River " was disastrous for the Cree, who lost a third of their warriors, and essentially marked the end of the invasion.

An inscription of Swampy Cree language | Swampy Cree using Canadian Aboriginal syllabics, an abugida developed by Christian missionaries for Aboriginal Canadian languages

During the summer of 1925 Bloomfield worked as Assistant Ethnologist with the Geological Survey of Canada in the Canadian Department of Mines, undertaking linguistic field work on Plains Cree ; this position was arranged by Edward Sapir, who was then Chief of the Division of Anthropology, Victoria Museum, Geological Survey of Canada, Canadian Department of Mines.

In September 2003, a new type of blue LED was demonstrated by the company Cree Inc. to provide 24 mW at 20 milliamperes ( mA ).

Before the arrival of the Europeans, the region was inhabited both by Algonquian ( Ojibwa, Cree and Algonquin ) in the northern / western portions and Iroquois and Wyandot ( Huron ) tribes more in the south / east.

On 26 April 1976, while on a revival tour of The Mating Season, a 1969 farce by the Irish playwright Sam Cree, James suffered a heart attack on stage at the Sunderland Empire Theatre.

In " The London Burial Grounds " by Mrs Basil Holmes ( 1897 ), the author claims that the Holy Priory Church, next to St Katherine Cree on Leadenhall Street, London was the location of miracle plays from the tenth to the sixteenth century.

The idea of incentive conservation is a modern one but its practice has clearly defended some of the sub Arctic wildernesses and the wildlife in those regions for thousands of years, especially by indigenous peoples such as the Evenk, Yakut, Sami, Inuit and Cree.

Depending on the community, the Cree may call themselves by the following names: the nēhiyaw, nīhithaw, nēhilaw, and nēhinaw ; or ininiw, ililiw, iynu ( innu ), or iyyu.

The Cree language ( also known in the most broad classification as Cree-Montagnais, Cree-Montagnais-Naskapi, to show the groups included within it ) is the name for a group of closely related Algonquian languages spoken by approximately 117, 000 people across Canada, from the Northwest Territories to Labrador.

The two major groups: Nehiyaw and Innu, speak a mutually intelligible, Cree dialect continuum, which can be divided by many criteria.

He was one of the influential chiefs of the House Cree or Wāskahikaniwiyiniwak, supplied between 1852 – 1854 Fort Carlton with bison meat and pemmican, acquired in his youth by constant military conflicts the respect of Crowfoot, the chief of the Siksika, the Blackfoot called Mistāwasis respectfully “ The Iron Buffalo of the Plains ”)

* Payipwāt ( or Piapot: " who Knows the Secrets of the Sioux "), also known as " Hole in the Sioux " or Kisikawasan-‘ Flash in the Sky ’, Chief of the Cree-Assiniboine or the Young Dogs with great influence on neighboring Assiniboine, Downstream People, southern groups of the Upstream People and Saulteaux ( Plains Ojibwa ), born 1816, kidnapped as a child by the Sioux, he was freed about 1830 by Plains Cree, significant Shaman, most influential chief of the feared Young Dogs, convinced the Plains Cree to expand west in the Cypress Hills, the last refugee for bison groups, therefore disputed border area between Sioux, Assiniboine, Siksika Kainai and Cree, refused to participate in the raid on a Kainai camp near the present Lethbridge, Alberta, then the Young Dogs and their allies were content with the eastern Cypress Hills to the Milk River, Montana, does not participate at the negotiations on the Treaty 4 of 1874, he and Cheekuk, the most important chief of the Plains Ojibwa in the Qu ' Appelle area, signed on 9 September 1875 the treaty only as preliminary contract, tried with the chiefs of the River Cree Minahikosis (" Little Pine ") and Mistahi-maskwa (" Big Bear ") to erect a kind of Indian Territory for all the Plains Cree, Plains Ojibwa and Assiniboine-as Ottawa refused, he asked 1879-80 along with Kiwisünce ( cowessess-' Little Child ') and the Assiniboine for adjacent reserves in the Cypress Hills, Payipwāt settled in a reserve about 37 miles northeast of Fort Walsh, Minahikosis (" Little Pine ") and Papewes (‘ Lucky Man ’) asked successfully for reserves near the Assiniboine or Payipwāt-this allowed the Cree and Assiniboine to preserve their autonomy-because they went 1881 in Montana on bison hunting, stole Absarokee horses and alleged cattle killed, arrested the U. S. Army the Cree-Assiniboine group, disarmed and escorted them back to Canada-now unarmed, denied rations until the Cree and Assiniboine gave up their claims to the Cypress Hills and went north-in the following years the reserves changed several times and the tribes were trying repeated until to the Northwest Rebellion in 1885 to build an Indian Territory, Payipwāt remained under heavy guard, until his death he was a great spiritual leader, therefore Ottawa deposed Payipwāt on 15 April 1902 as chief, died in April 1908 on Piapot Reserve, Saskatchewan )