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Thomas Eugene Creech (born September 9, 1950) is an American serial killer who was convicted of two murders committed in 1974 and sentenced to death in Idaho.The sentence was reduced two years later on appeal to life imprisonment.
Jackson Beardy (July 24, 1944 – December 7, 1984) was an Indigenous Oji-Cree Anishinaabe artist born in Canada. His works are characterized by scenes from Ojibwe and Cree oral history and many focus on the relationship between humans and nature. [2] He belonged to the Woodland School of Art and was a prominent member of the Indian Group of ...
His grandnephew John Tootoosis, Cree leader, and great-grandnephew Gordon Tootoosis, actor, both lived on this reserve. Poundmaker appears as the leader of the Cree in Sid Meier's Civilization VI, having bonuses related to trade and diplomacy. His appearance in the game drew criticism from some members of the Poundmaker Cree Nation, who felt ...
According to the police Information To Obtain warrant (ITO), which was produced in the early stages of the investigation [Notes 1] and obtained by The Globe and Mail [7] on August 9, 2016, 22-year-old Colten Boushie and his girlfriend Kiora Wuttunee, Belinda Jackson and her boyfriend Eric Meechance, [8] [9] and Cassidy Cross-Whitstone, all from the Red Pheasant First Nation, had spent the day ...
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, [3] the mother tongue (i.e. language first learned and still understood) of approximately 96,000 people, and the language most often ...
Her ambition was to go to college and become a teacher. There was no secondary school in Norway House, so she had to leave her home community for further education. She spent two years at Guy Hill Residential School, [1] just outside The Pas, Manitoba, a culturally mixed town of European Canadians, Métis and Cree people. In the fall of 1971 ...
Cree Vern Harper (Traditional Name: Asin, meaning Stone/Grandfather) Vernon Harper born on June 17, 1936 [ 1 ] in Regent Park Toronto , Ontario – May 12, 2018) was a Canadian First Nations Cree Elder , medicine man , and Aboriginal rights activist .
Harold Cardinal (January 27, 1945 – June 3, 2005) was a Cree writer, political leader, teacher, negotiator, and lawyer. [1] Throughout his career he advocated, on behalf of all First Nation peoples, for the right to be "the red tile in the Canadian mosaic."