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The ethnic groups that made up the Confederacy were the 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 half the "Woods Cree"), the Saulteaux (Plains Ojibwa), the Nakoda or Stoney people also called Pwat or Assiniboine, [2] and the Métis ...
Stumickosúcks of the Kainai. George Catlin, 1832 Comanches capturing wild horses with lassos, approximately July 16, 1834 Spotted Tail of the Lakota Sioux. Plains Indians or Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains and Canadian Prairies are the Native American tribes and First Nations peoples who have historically lived on the Interior Plains (the Great Plains and Canadian Prairies) of North ...
Another map of Cree dialects Woodland Cree and Rocky Cree [10] – a group in northern Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan. Plains Cree – a total of about 34,000 people in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and Montana, USA. Due to the many dialects of the Cree language, the people have no modern collective autonym.
Eeyou or Iyyu is the spelling in northern East Cree, while Iynu in southern East Cree. The traditional territory of the Plains Cree in particular is Paskwāwiýinīnāhk ("In the Land of the Plains Cree"). [226] Newe Segobia [230] ("The People's Earth Mother")
Opessa Straight Tail (Wapatha, 1664–1750), chief of Pekowi band, signed several peace treaties with William Penn before leading his people to the Ohio River Valley in ca. 1727 Tecumseh (c. 1768–1813), Shawnee leader, with his brother Tenskwatawa attempted to unite tribes west of the Appalachians against the expansion of European-American ...
Plains Cree may refer to: Plains Cree language; Plains Cree people This page was last edited on 17 October 2021, at 05:48 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
Ahtahkakoop (pictured bottom left) with chiefs of the Carlton and Qu'Appelle region. Ahtahkakoop (Cree: Atāhkakohp, "Starblanket")(c. 1816 – 1896) was a Head Chief of the Plains Cree and presided over the House Cree (Wāskahikaniwiyiniwak) division of the Plains Cree people of northern Saskatchewan, who led his people through the transition from hunter and warrior to farmer, and from ...
The Erie people were also known as the Eriechronon, Yenresh, Erielhonan, Eriez, Nation du Chat, and Riquéronon. [citation needed] They were also called the Chat ("Cat" in French) or "Long Tail", referring, possibly, to the raccoon tails worn on clothing; however, in Native American cultures across the Eastern Woodlands, the terms "cat" and "long tail" tend to be references to a mythological ...