Cree (Catholic Encyclopedia article)
James Mooney · 1913
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Description
An ethnological entry introduces the Cree, the greatest and most important Indian tribe of Canada, part of the great Algonquin stock and close kin to the Ojibwa. Before confinement to reservations, their bands held vast territory around Lakes Winnipeg and Manitoba and the lower Red and Saskatchewan rivers, and east toward Hudson Bay.
Known to Jesuit missionaries about 1650, the Cree pushed onto the open plains once English trading posts supplied firearms, driving the Blackfeet before them and warring with the Tinneh tribes. A smallpox epidemic in 1781 cut their numbers sharply. The entry covers their alliances, wars, physique, and customs, and notes their generally friendly relations with both French and English.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | James Mooney |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1913 |
| COLLECTION | REFERENCE |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 6 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | New Advent — Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) |