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Aug 28, 2009 · Cree Indian singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie has recorded numerous albums and written Oscar-winning songs. Her first record in 13 years is Running for the Drum, which expands on the creative ...
The Cree are one of the largest Native American groups in Canada. They originally lived in the forests of eastern Canada. They eventually expanded their territory far into the plains of western Canada.
Feb 12, 2024 · 29mayAll Day 30 Board Council May Meeting of the Grand Council of the Crees (Eeyou Istchee)/Cree Nation Government View event page A word from the Grand Chief We welcome you to our website to better understand our history, our struggles, our agreements and our vision.
The Cree Indians were excellent hunters and gatherers. They lived primarily near the Great Lakes, which was abundant in wild rice, one of the Cree Indians staple foods and an adequate substitute for corn, which could not be grown in the lakes area very easily. And just as rice was a substitute for corn, it was equally a substitute for labor ...
Oct 29, 2016 · Cree Indian, taken by G. E. Fleming, 1903. Cree peoples were hunter-gatherers, and the basic unit of an organization were the lodge, a group formed of eight dozen people, most often the families of two separate but related married couple who lived in the same tipi or wigwam, and the band, group of two lodges who moved and hunted together.
The Iron Confederacy or Iron Confederation (also known as Cree-Assiniboine in English or Nehiyaw-Pwat in Cree) was a political and military alliance of Plains Indians of what is now Western Canada and the northern United States. This confederacy included various individual bands that formed political, hunting and military alliances in defense ...
Alexander Henry the Younger, quoted in John Milloy, The Plains Cree: Trade, Diplomacy and War, 1790 to 1870 (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1988), 35.↵; Mary E. Malainy, “The Gros Ventre/Fall Indians in Historical and Archaeological Interpretation,” Canadian Journal of Native Studies XXV, no. 1 (2005), 166–7.
