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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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    Montana. 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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  • 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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  • 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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    Translation Studies "Online Cree Dictionary, Cree Language Resource Project, Maskwacis Plains Cree, Saskatchewan Cree, Woods Cree". www.creedictionary.com...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    -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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  • 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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    Chipewyan (category Articles containing Plains Cree-language text)
    the Canadian prairies, of Algonquian origin. It is derived from the Plains Cree name for them, Cīpwayān (ᒌᐘᔮᐣ), "pointed skin", from cīpwāw (ᒌᐚᐤ), "to...
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  • Moose Cree is a dialect of the Cree language spoken mainly in Moose Factory, Ontario. As a dialect of the Cree language, Moose Cree is classified under...
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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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    used by Plains Tribes to refer to the Shoshone. They called the Shoshone "snake" referring to the Shoshone sign in Plains Indian Sign Language for the...
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    Canadian Aboriginal syllabics (category Articles containing Cree-language text)
    of the Cree languages from Naskapi (spoken in Quebec) to the Rocky Mountains, including Eastern Cree, Woods Cree, Swampy Cree and Plains Cree. They are...
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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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  • 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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  • The Red Pheasant Cree Nation (Cree: ᒥᑭᓯᐘᒌᕽ, mikisiwacîhk) is a Plains Cree First Nations band government in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. The...
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    Saulteaux (redirect from Plains-Ojibwa)
    neighbouring Plains Cree call them the Nahkawiyiniw (ᓇᐦᑲᐏᔨᓂᐤ), a word of related etymology. Their form of Anishinaabemowin (Anishinaabe language), known as...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    any native language north of Mexico. The word Athabaskan is an anglicized version of a Cree language name for Lake Athabasca (Moose Cree: Āðapāskāw '[where]...
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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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  • The Chippewa Cree Tribe (Officially in Cree: ᐅᒋᐻᐤ ᓀᐃᔭᐤ, romanized: ocipwêw nêiyaw) is a federally recognized tribe on the Rocky Boy Reservation in Montana...
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    Polaris (category Articles containing Plains Cree-language text)
    Wičháȟpi Owáŋžila stared down from "waŋkátu" (the above land) forever. The Plains Cree call the star in Nehiyawewin: acâhkos êkâ kâ-âhcît "the star that does...
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    He was named Ahtahkakoop, which in Cree means "Starblanket". He was a Head Chief of the Plains Cree. The plain buffalos were once the most important...
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