The Cree Nation is generally divided into eight groups ( some political, others cultural ):

Critics such as Delvin Cree ( Turtle Mountain Chippewa ), a reporter with the The Tribal Independent, wrote in an Opinion piece on Indianz. com that the tribe's practices of high-interest, short-term lending are generally classified as predatory lending.

However, Cree oral traditions generally consider the Anishinaabeg as their descendants, and not the Abenakis.

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

Their first languages were generally those of their mothers: Cree, Saulteaux, Assiniboine, etc.

The Cree village Whapmagoostui, near the northern village of Kuujjuarapik, on the eastern shore of Hudson Bay, is an enclave in the Nunavik region and its inhabitants do not participate in the Kativik Regional Government.

The Caniapiscau River basin has no permanent inhabitants, although Cree from the James Bay region as well as southern hunters do travel to the area by bush plane and via the Trans-Taiga Road.

He is usually willing to do things, and despite his gruesome past that comes up frequently, he is quite positive. And with the guitar Cree gave him, he adores Cree.

He credited the basic idea of the script to the Cree syllabary, " While working out the problem, we remembered the case of the syllabics used by James Evans, a Methodist missionary among the Indians of North America, and resolved to do as he had done ".

He credited the basic idea of the script to the Cree syllabary ( discussed above ), “ While working out the problem, we remembered the case of the syllabics used by a Methodist missionary among the Indians of North America, and resolved to do as he had done ”.

The James Bay And Northern Quebec Agreement was an Aboriginal land claim settlement, approved in 1975 by the Cree and Inuit of northern Quebec, and later slightly modified in 1978 by the Northeastern Quebec Agreement, through which Quebec's Naskapi First Nations joined the treaty.

On February 8, 2012, Cree announced the XLamp XT-E, which they claim delivers twice as much light for the same price as older LEDs.

Similarly, the Cree have also asserted for many years that they are a separate people with the right to self-determination recognized under international law.

They argue that no annexation of them or their territory to an independent Quebec should take place without their consent, and that if Quebec has the right to leave Canada then the Cree people have the right to choose to keep their territory in Canada.

In November 1975, the governments of Canada and Quebec signed the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement with the Cree of the James Bay region and the Inuit of northern Quebec, granting exclusive hunting and fishing rights to about 170, 000 km² of territory and about $ 250 million in financial compensation in return for the right to develop the hydroelectric resources of Northern Quebec.

Several tributaries enter at Black Lake: from the right, the Chipman River and the Souter River ; and from the left, the Cree River.

Jonathan Earl Cheechoo (; Cree: ; born July 15, 1980 ) is a Canadian professional ice hockey right winger currently playing for the Peoria Rivermen of the American Hockey League.

The 1913 Handbook of Indians of Canada ( reprinting 1907 material from the Bureau of American Ethnology ), claims that North American natives practicing cannibalism included "... the Montagnais, and some of the tribes of Maine ; the Algonkin, Armouchiquois, Iroquois, and Micmac ; farther west the Assiniboine, Cree, Foxes, Chippewa, Miami, Ottawa, Kickapoo, Illinois, Sioux, and Winnebago ; in the South the people who built the mounds in Florida, and the Tonkawa, Attacapa, Karankawa, Caddo, and Comanche (?

However, two French traders, Pierre-Esprit Radisson and Médard des Groseilliers, learned from the Cree that the best fur country was north and west of Lake Superior and that there was a " frozen sea " still further north.

The name Manitoba is believed to be derived from the Cree, Ojibwe or Assiniboine languages.

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.

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.

Michif combines Cree and Métis French ( Rhodes 1977, Bakker 1997: 85 ), a variety of Canadian French, with some additional borrowing from English and First Nation languages such as Ojibwe and Assiniboine.

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.

This suggests that instead of haltingly using words from another's tongue, the people who gradually came to speak Michif were fully fluent in both French and Cree.

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

The name " Cree " is derived from the Algonkian-language exonym Kirištino ˙, which the Ojibwa used for tribes around Hudson Bay.

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.

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.

In a dialect continuum, " It is not so much a language, as a chain of dialects, where speakers from one community can very easily understand their neighbours, but a Plains Cree speaker from Alberta would find a Quebec Cree speaker difficult to speak to without practice.

* Paskwüw ( Paskwa, Pisqua, usually called Pasquah-‘ The Plain ’; French: Les Prairies ), Chief of the Plains Cree, born 1828, son of the famous chief Mahkaysis, 1874 his tribal group were making their living with bison hunting in the vicinity of today's Leech Lake, Saskatchewan, they had also created gardens and raised a small herd of cattle, in September 1874 Pasqua took part in the negotiations on the Treaty 4 in Qu ' Appelle Valley, he asked the Canadian government for the payment of £ 300, 000 to the tribes, which the Hudson's Bay Company had received for the sale of Rupert's land to Canada, despite the refusal of Canada he finally signed the treaty and moved to a reserve five miles west of Fort Qu ' Appelle, stayed out with his tribal group from the Northwest Rebellion of 1885, died in March 1889 he succumbed to the tuberculosis )

* Brief history of Cree from Canadian Geographic

The specific epithet namaycush derives from namekush, a form of the word used in some inland Southern East Cree communities in referring to this species of fish.

On May 28, 1885, Major General Thomas Bland Strange brought an NWMP detachment from Calgary, Alberta, but they were unable to defeat a Cree force under Big Bear who carried the day at Frenchman's Butte at the end of May.

The name " Koochiching " comes from either the Ojibwe word Gojijiing or Cree Kocicīhk ( recorded in some documents as " Ouchichiq "), both meaning " at the place of inlets ," referring to the neighboring Rainy Lake and River.

This community of descent consists of individuals descended from marriages of First Nation women, specifically Cree, Ojibway, and Saulteaux with Europeans, usually French, English, and Scottish laborers or merchants employed in the North American Fur Trade.

* 1885 – Cree warriors attacked the village of Frog Lake, North-West Territories, Canada, killing 9.

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.

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 ).

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

The major proportion of Cree in Canada live north and west of Lake Superior, in Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and the Northwest Territories.

The linguistic subdivisions of Cree Indians in Canada.

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

The largest Cree band and the second largest First Nations Band in Canada after the Six Nations Iroquois is the Lac La Ronge Band in northern Saskatchewan.

Frog Lake Massacre National Historic Site of Canada, at Frog Lake, Alberta, is the location of the Cree uprising which occurred in the District of Saskatchewan North-west Territories.

Frenchman Butte is a National Historic Site of Canada, which locates the theatre of the 1885 battle staged between Cree and Canadian troops.

The NNK and the James Bay Cree bands were also given powers not found in the Indian Act, powers normally exercised by non-Native municipalities throughout Canada.

Athabasca ( also Athabaska ) is an anglicized version of the Cree name for Lake Athabasca in Canada, āthap-āsk-ā-w ( pronounced ), meaning “ grass or reeds here and there ”.

In Canada, they are the second-largest population among First Nations, surpassed only by Cree.

The Chippewa-Cree Tribe is a federally recognized tribe on the Rocky Boy Reservation in Montana who are descendants of Cree who migrated south from Canada and Chippewa ( Ojibwe ) who moved west from the Turtle Mountains in North Dakota in the late nineteenth century.

When production of Inspector Gadget moved from Nelvana in Canada to DiC's headquarters in Los Angeles for the second season, several of the voice artists were replaced, including Cree Summer, who was replaced with Holly Berger as the voice of Penny.

The Saskatchewan River ( Cree: kisiskāciwani-sīpiy, " swift flowing river ") is a major river in Canada, approximately long, flowing roughly eastward across Saskatchewan and Manitoba to empty into Lake Winnipeg.