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27 unusual facts about Cree


2006–07 Calgary Flames season

On February 3, 2007, the Flames made history by having young Cree singer Akina Shirt perform "O Canada" in Woodlands Cree, the first time the national anthem had ever been performed in an Aboriginal language at a major league sporting event.

Abishabis

Abishabis or Small Eyes (died 30 August 1843) was a religious leader of the Cree First Nation who became the prophet of a millenarian religious movement that swept through the Cree communities of northern Manitoba and Ontario during the 1840s.

Alice Beck Kehoe

She has studied Native American spiritual healers ("medicine people") and worked with Piakwutch, "an elderly deeply respected Cree man who served his Saskatchewan Cree community..." <2000:60>.

Brian's Hunt

While Brian does not miss human contact, he finds his thoughts frequently turning to Kay-gwa-daush (also known as Susan), the teenage daughter of the Cree family who rescued him at the end of Brian's Winter.

Caniapiscau, Quebec

The name comes from the Cree or Innu term kaniapiskau or kaneapiskak which means "rocky point" or "place where there is a rocky point".

Clooneenagh Townland

It is situated on the Cree Road between Cree East and Cree North near the towns of Doonbeg and Cooraclare.

David G. Mandelbaum

His major published work dealt with the Plains Cree people of Saskatchewan, Canada and he was well regarded for his study of society in India.

Doris Seale

Doris Seale is a Santee Dakota and Cree poet, writer, and educator.

Fisher River Cree Nation

Fisher River (Ochekwi-Sipi) is a Cree First Nations reserve located approximately 193 km north of Manitoba's capital city, Winnipeg.

Gentle Thunder

Gentle Thunder, born Lisa Carpenter, is a Native American flautist of Cree heritage with three solo albums to date.

Howard Norman

Working in Manitoba on a fire crew with Cree Indians, Norman became fascinated with their folkstories and culture.

John J. Rowlands

He hired a guide named Chief Tibeash (c. 1841-9 September 1917), a Cree Indian trapper.

Kapuskasing

No roads existed, but northern Cree Indians and fur traders had used the local rivers connecting to James Bay for centuries.

Kapuskasing is a word of Cree origin, and its true meaning has been the question of debate.

Oji-Cree

The Oji-Cree, Anishinini (plural Anishininiwag) or, less correctly, Severn Ojibwa or Northern Ojibwa, are a First Nation in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Manitoba, residing in a narrow band extending from the Missinaibi River region in Northeastern Ontario at the east to Lake Winnipeg at the west.

Oxford House, Manitoba

Cree was selected as the mother tongue of 1,500 residents.

P. G. Downes

Prentice G. "Spike" Downes (1909-1959) was an American school teacher and author, who travelled by canoe to explore the Great Barren Lands and learn the ways of the Cree and Dene people.

On his trips, he kept detailed journals in which he recorded not only daily events, but also the stories and traditions of the Cree and Dene people.

Pimicikamak Cree Nation

Pimicikamak Cree Nation is sometimes used as a name for Pimicikamak, one of the more populous Cree indigenous peoples in Canada.

Samba Squad

In August 2007, Samba Squad performed at Cree Fest in Kashechewan (James Bay), Ontario, in celebration of the Cree culture and the community’s 50th anniversary.

Saskatchewan River fur trade

The boreal forest region to the north was inhabited by Cree who had migrated northwest as middlemen in the fur trade and, in the early and middle 19th.

Simon R. Baker

Simon Richard Baker III (born March 30, 1986) is an Aboriginal Canadian actor, of Cree, Haida, and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh descent.

Wakaw Lake, Saskatchewan

It takes its name from a nearby lake of the same name "Wakaw Lake", which is Cree meaning "crooked."

Wetaskiwin and District Heritage Museum

The museum provides for the acquisition, exhibition, and preservation of artefacts to interpret the natural, human, and cultural history of Wetaskiwin, the Cree Four Band Reserve, and the surrounding rural area.

The Origins Exhibit includes dinosaur fossils, archaeological artefacts, and facts about the local Cree Nations of Samson, Ermineskin, Montana, and Louis Bull.

William Dillon Otter

On May 2, 1885, he led a Canadian force of more than 300 in the Battle of Cut Knife against Poundmaker's Cree Indians.

Woodlands style

The majority of the Woodland artists belong to the Anishinaabeg - notably the Ojibwe (also Ojibwa), Odawa, and Potawatomi, as well as the Oji-Cree and the Cree.


Adam Cree

A graduate of the Tesco Junior Giants system, Cree made his debut for his hometown team the Belfast Giants during the 2007-08 season and played 5 games in all, serving as backup to Stevie Lyle.

Alexandre-Vincent Pineux Duval

Le Prisonnier, musique de Domenico Della-Maria, créé le 10 pluviôse an VI, Opéra-Comique (salle Favart) ;

Apostolic Vicariate of Keewatin

There were in the vicariate in the early 20th century 15 Oblate Fathers of Mary Immaculate, 8 Oblate Brothers of Mary Immaculate, 12 Grey Nuns (Montreal), 16 Oblate Sisters of the Sacred Heart and Mary Immaculate (St. Boniface), 4 more Grey Nuns (St. Hyacinth), 10 churches with 16 out-stations; 11,000 Indians, Dene, Cree and Eskimo, of whom 7000 were Catholics and 5000 non-Catholics or pagans (chiefly Eskimo).

Arok Wolvengrey

On 15 October 2001, Wolvengrey published what is regarded as the most extensive CreeEnglish dictionary to date.

Battle of the Belly River

An advance party of Crees had stumbled upon a Peigan camp and decided to attack instead of informing the main Cree body of their find.

Bible translations into Cree

In the final decades of the 20th century the Canadian Bible Society, working in partnership with the Cree Nation, the Church and other partners – including the Summer Institute of Linguistics – began working on a new Cree Bible that would make the Word of God available to a little over 30,000 native speakers of the dialect, largely concentrated in Saskatchewan.

Birdie Cree

Prior to the Major Leagues, Cree played in the High Hat League, then went to play ball in Burlington, Vermont and Williamsport, Pennsylvania.

Cody Lightning

Cody Lightning (born August 8, 1986) is a Cree Native American actor.

Cree Hunters of Mistassini

Produced by the National Film Board of Canada Cree Hunters of Mistassini received the award for Best Documentary over 30 minutes at the Canadian Film Awards as well as the Robert Flaherty Award for best one-off documentary from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.

Crook, County Durham

Constantine Scollen famous missionary priest among the Blackfoot and Cree peoples of Canada in the late 19th Century.

Fine-Day

David G. Mandelbaum, in the introduction to his extensive study of the Plains Cree cites Fineday as his principal informant.

Franco-Ténois

The government of the Northwest Territories then adopted an Official Languages Act in the same year that recognized eight official provincial languages, Inuktitut (which includes Inuvialuktun and Inuinnaqtun), Awokanak or Slavey, Dogrib, Chipewyan, Cree, Gwichʼin, English and French.

Hamma Meliani

Asnières-sur-Seine – Créé au théâtre de Bondy 2001.Premier prix du Festival de Théâtre Divers de Clamart 2001.

Henry Steinhauer

Henry Bird Steinhauer (1804-1885), Canadian clergyman among the Cree and Ojibwa

Joseph Boyden

Three Day Road, a novel about two Cree soldiers serving in the Canadian military during World War I, is inspired by Ojibwa Francis Pegahmagabow, the legendary First World War sniper.

Koochiching County, Minnesota

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.

McDougall United Church

George McDougall established a school in 1871, to teach English to the children of the Hudson's Bay Company employees, because the most used languages then were French, Gaelic, and Cree.

Native American hip hop

Melle Mel, the first rapper to ever use the epithet MC, is Cherokee and Ernie Paniccioli, a famous photographer of hip-hop culture who grew up in Brooklyn, is Cree.

Nor-Alta Aviation

Frequent destinations for charter flights include the communities of the Little Red River Cree Nation, as well as Fort Chipewyan, Fort McMurray, Grande Prairie, Edmonton, and several fishing lodges and oil camps throughout northern Alberta.

North-West Rebellion

Angered by what seemed to be unfair treaties and the withholding of vital provisions by the Canadian government,and also by the dwindling buffalo population, their main source of food, Big Bear and his Cree decided to rebel after the successful Métis victory at Duck Lake.

Odeyak

Matthew Coon Come, then the grand chief and chairman of Quebec's Grand Council of the Crees, spoke at the event on behalf of the Cree and Inuit people of the James Bay region.

Pigeon Lake, Alberta

It was called "Woodpecker Lake" until 1858, from Hmi-hmoo (or Ma-Me-O), the Cree word for woodpecker.

Proto-Algonquian language

It has merged with the reflex of *r in all Algonquian languages except for Cree and the Arapaho group.

Sioux language

Sioux is a Siouan language spoken by over 30,000 Sioux in the United States and Canada, making it the fifth most spoken indigenous language in the United States or Canada, behind Navajo, Cree, Inuit and Ojibwe.

Starblanket

Ahtahkakoop (Cree: Atāhkakohp, "Starblanket")(c. 1816–1896), Cree chief

Strathcona, Alberta

This mixed community of British (especially Orkney), Québécois, Cree and Metis fur trade employees, pioneer farmers, hunters, and their families, was mostly replaced by eastern Canadian pioneer farmers (and land speculators) in the 1880s.

Thanadelthur

At this time, James Knight, a director of the Hudson's Bay Company, was seeking a native interpreter to help convince the Cree to allow other northern Indians to reach bay side trading posts in order to trade furs with his company.

Tina Keeper

She is the granddaughter of Olympic long distance runner Joe Keeper and daughter of Joseph I. Keeper (Norway House Cree Nation), member of the Order of Canada and Rev. Dr. Phyllis Keeper (née Beardy, Muskrat Dam First Nation).

Wanuskewin Heritage Park

Within its 240 hectares (about 600 acres) there are 19 sites that represent the active and historical society of Northern Plains Peoples composed of Cree, Assiniboine, Saulteaux, Atsina, Dakota, and Blackfoot.