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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 ...
Abishabis (died 1843) was a Cree religious leader and prophet of a movement that spread during the 1840s among the Cree communities in what is now northern Manitoba and Ontario. His preaching, an admixture of Christianity and Cree beliefs, caused some Cree people to stop hunting furs, angering the Hudson's Bay Company and reducing its profits.
The Chippewa Cree Tribe (Officially in Cree: ᐅᒋᐻᐤ ᓀᐃᔭᐤ, romanized: ocipwêw nêiyaw) [3] is a Native American tribe on the Rocky Boy's 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 19th century.
Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Montana (Ojibwe language: Esensininiwag) is a federally recognized tribe of Ojibwe, Métis, and Cree people in Montana. [1] [2] [3] The name of the tribe is often shortened to Little Shell. In 2023, the population of enrolled tribal members is approximately 6,900. [4]
Areas under the jurisdiction of the CRA marked in red. The Grand Council of the Crees (Eeyou Istchee) or the GCC(EI) (ᐄᔨᔨᐤ ᐊᔅᒌ in Cree), is the political body that represents the approximately 20,000 Cree people (who call themselves "Eeyou" or "Eenou" in the various dialects of East Cree) of the territory called Eeyou Istchee ("The People's Land") in the James Bay and Nunavik ...
A new Canadian Broadcast Corporation investigation has raised questions about the Indigenous identity of Buffy Sainte-Marie. The singer-songwriter, considered to be the first Indigenous Oscar ...
The Oji-Cree people are descended from historical intermarriage between the Ojibwa and Cree cultures, but constitute a distinct nation. [2] [3] They are considered one of the component groups of Anishinaabe, and reside primarily in a transitional zone between traditional Ojibwa lands to their south and traditional Cree lands to their north ...
It’s Craig Melvin’s first day on the job!. The anchor made his debut as co-anchor of the Today show alongside Savannah Guthrie on Monday, Jan. 13. He took over the role from Hoda Kotb, who ...