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"Nascaupee" native American by Frank Weston Benson (1921). The earliest written reference to Naskapi appears around 1643, when the Jesuit André Richard referred to the "Ounackkapiouek", but little is known about the group to which Richard was referring, other than that they were one of many "small nations" situated somewhere north of Tadoussac.
The Cree language (also known in the most broad classification as Cree-Montagnais, Cree-Montagnais-Naskapi, to show the groups included within it) is the name for a group of closely related Algonquian languages, [3] the mother tongue (i.e. language first learned and still understood) of approximately 96,000 people, and the language most often ...
This is a list of Cree and Naskapi territories in Quebec It includes only Cree and Naskapi villages and village municipalities. All places with the exception of Kawawachikamach and Kawawachikamach (Naskapi village municipality) are in the territory of Eeyou Istchee .
The national name Nēhiyaw is from the Plains Cree, but serves as a pan-Cree name (see for example the Cree Wikipedia article). So Nēhiýānāhk serves as a default name for Cree country as a whole, in a similar way that Anishinaabewaki is based on an Ojibwe spelling, but serves as common name for the entire supra-national Aninishinaabe ...
The Woods Cree language belongs to the Algic family, within the Algonquian subfamily, and the central Cree–Montagnais–Naskapi language group. [6] [7] [8]Western Cree is a term used to refer to the non-palatized Cree dialects, consisting of Northern Plains Cree, Southern Plains Cree, Woods Cree, Rock Cree, Western Swampy Cree, Eastern Swampy Cree, Moose Cree, and Atikamekw.
Kawawachikamach (Naskapi: ᑲᐛᐛᒋᑲᒪᒡ, romanized: Kawâwâchikamach) is a Naskapi/Iyiyiw First Nations reserve and community at the south end of Lake Matemace (where it joins Lake Peter), approximately 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) northeast of Schefferville, Quebec, Canada. It belongs to the Naskapi Nation of Kawawachikamach.
Map of Cree lands; the Swampy Cree are colored gray. The Swampy Cree people, also known by their autonyms Néhinaw, Maskiki Wi Iniwak, Mushkekowuk, Maškékowak, Maskegon or Maskekon [1] (and therefore also Muskegon and Muskegoes) or by exonyms including West Main Cree, Lowland Cree, and Homeguard Cree, [2] are a division of the Cree Nation occupying lands located in northern Manitoba, along ...
Cree (/ k r iː / KREE; [4] also known as Cree–Montagnais–Naskapi) is a dialect continuum of Algonquian languages spoken by approximately 86,475 indigenous people across Canada in 2021, [5] from the Northwest Territories to Alberta to Labrador. [6] If considered one language, it is the aboriginal language with the highest number of speakers ...