Cree is one of the largest groups of First Nations/Aboriginals in North America, located mainly across Canada. In the United States, this Algonquian-speaking people lived historically from Minnesota westward. Today they live mostly in Montana.
The Cree Nation is generally divided into 8 groups (some political, others cultural):
I Naskapi and II Montagnais (sections of Innu) are inhabitants of an area they refer to as Nitassinan, which comprises m...
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Cree is one of the largest groups of First Nations/Aboriginals in North America, located mainly across Canada. In the United States, this Algonquian-speaking people lived historically from Minnesota westward. Today they live mostly in Montana.
The Cree Nation is generally divided into 8 groups (some political, others cultural):
I Naskapi and II Montagnais (sections of Innu) are inhabitants of an area they refer to as Nitassinan, which comprises most of what other Canadians refer to as eastern Quebec and Labrador. Their population in 2003 includes about 18,000 people, of which 15,000 live in Quebec.
III Attikamekw are inhabitants of the area they refer to as Nitaskinan ("Our Land"), in the upper St. Maurice valley of Quebec (about 300 km north of Montreal). Their population currently stands at around 4500.
IV James Bay Cree- Grand Council of the Crees the approximately 16,357 Crees or “Iyyu” (Coastal Dialect)/ “Iynu” (Inland dialect) of the James Bay and Nunavik regions of Northern...
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