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    Algonquian language, Cree, which is the most populous Canadian indigenous language. Plains Cree is considered a dialect of the Cree-Montagnais language or a...
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    languages. There, Cree is spoken mainly in Fort Smith and Hay River. Endonyms are: nêhiyawêwin ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐍᐏᐣ (Plains Cree) nīhithawīwin ᓃᐦᐃᖬᐑᐏᐣ (Woods Cree)...
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  • Plains Cree may refer to: Plains Cree language Plains Cree people This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Plains Cree. If an...
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  • into Cree can be subdivided by dialect of the Cree language. The main dialects are Plains Cree language, Woods Cree language, Swampy Cree language, Moose...
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    USA. Due to the many dialects of the Cree language, the people have no modern collective autonym. The Plains Cree and Attikamekw refer to themselves using...
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    Western Cree syllabics are a variant of Canadian Aboriginal syllabics used to write Plains Cree, Woods Cree and the western dialects of Swampy Cree. It is...
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    Opaskwayak Cree Nation Red Earth First Nation Sapotaweyak Cree Nation (also Plains Cree and Saulteaux) Shamattawa Cree Nation Shoal Lake Cree Nation Tataskweyak...
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  • Cree–Montagnais–Naskapi language group. Western Cree is a term used to refer to the non-palatized Cree dialects, consisting of Northern Plains Cree,...
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    self-designations in their own language. The first is Anishinini 'ordinary person' (plural Anishininiwag) This term has been compared to Plains Cree ayisiyiniw 'person...
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    Members of the Nation are of Cree ancestry and speak the Plains Cree dialect of the Cree language group. The band is a signatory of Treaty 6 and is a member...
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  • branches of the Cree that moved onto the Great Plains around 1740 (the southern half of this movement eventually became the "Plains Cree" and the northern...
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    Île-à-la-Crosse (category Articles containing Plains Cree-language text)
    Île-à-la-Crosse (Plains Cree: ᓵᑭᑕᐚᕽ, romanized: sâkitawâhk) is a northern village in Division No. 18, northwestern Saskatchewan, and was the site of historic...
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    Lac La Biche, Alberta (category Articles containing Plains Cree-language text)
    County. The indigenous peoples of the area refer to the lake as Elk Lake (Plains Cree: wâwâskesiwisâkahikan, Chipewyan: tzalith tway). The earliest Europeans...
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  • Jean Okimāsis (category Linguists of Algic languages)
    Littlechief) is a Cree linguist who has worked on teaching and documenting the Plains Cree language. In 1982, Okimāsis started work on Cree language programs at...
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    Michif (redirect from Michif (language))
    variety of Plains Cree (a western dialect of Cree). Articles and adjectives are also of Métis French origin but demonstratives are from Plains Cree. The Michif...
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    Translation Studies "Online Cree Dictionary, Cree Language Resource Project, Maskwacis Plains Cree, Saskatchewan Cree, Woods Cree". www.creedictionary.com...
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    -wese- passivizer, -w third-person subject) or (Plains Cree) kāstāhikoyahk "it frightens us". These languages have been extensively studied by Leonard Bloomfield...
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    Arctic hare (category Articles containing Plains Cree-language text)
    from the Greek ἀρκτικός (arktikos), "near the Bear, northern". In the Cree language, the Arctic hare is named meestapoos, coming from the words for "large"...
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    Enoch Cree Nation 135, (Cree: ᒪᐢᑫᑯᓯᐦᐠ, romanized: maskêkosihk /məsˈkeɪɡoʊsiːk/) previously known as Stony Plain No. 135, is an Indian reserve of the Enoch...
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  • Swampy Cree (variously known as Maskekon, Maskegon and Omaškêkowak, and often anglicized as Omushkego) is a variety of the Algonquian language, Cree. It...
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    Chipewyan (category Articles containing Plains Cree-language text)
    now Western Canada. The term Chipewyan (ᒌᐯᐘᔮᐣ) is an exonym from the Cree language meaning 'pointed hides', referring to the design of their parkas. The...
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    Assiniboine (category Articles containing Cree-language text)
    šahíya iyéskabina ('Plains Cree-Speakers', also known as Cree-Assiniboine / Young Dogs, built up from a number of bands of Plains Cree and Assiniboine. They...
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  • The Sakāwithiniwak or Woodland Cree, are a Cree people, calling themselves Nîhithaw in their own dialect of the language. They are the largest indigenous...
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    American mink (category Articles containing Plains Cree-language text)
    qayχ Cree: sâkwes Plains Cree: sâkwês ᓵᑫᐧᐢ Swampy Cree: šâkwêšiw ᔖᑴᔑᐤ Moose Cree: shakweshiw ᔕᑴᔑᐤ Naskapi: achikaas ᐊᒋᑲᔅ Innu: atshakash James Bay Cree: achikaash...
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    Canadian Aboriginal syllabics (category Articles containing Cree-language text)
    currently used to write all of the Cree languages from including Eastern Cree, Plains Cree, Swampy Cree, Woods Cree, and Naskapi. They are also used to...
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    Kainai Nation (category Articles containing Plains Cree-language text)
    'chief') while Káína translates directly to 'many chief people'. The enemy Plains Cree call the Kainai mihkowiyiniw, 'stained with blood', thus 'the bloodthirsty...
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  • Algonquian languages. They are federally recognized as the Chippewa Cree Indians of the Rocky Boy's Reservation. This tribe is the southernmost Cree tribe...
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    Buffalo Narrows (category Articles containing Plains Cree-language text)
    Buffalo Narrows (Plains Cree: ᒧᐢᑐᓱ ᐘᐹᓯᕽ, romanized: mostoso-wapâsihk) is a northern village in Saskatchewan, Canada. It is a community of 1,110 people...
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  • literally "Atikamekw native language") is a variety of the Algonquian language Cree[citation needed] and the language of the Atikamekw people of southwestern...
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    Hinton, Alberta (category Articles containing Plains Cree-language text)
    changed to Maskuta Creek (maskotêw: Plains Cree for prairie, bald prairie, or plain) in 1956, although the Cree name had been used much earlier. Jasper...
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