Back Cree (volk) Afrikaans كري Arabic كرى (مجموعه عرقيه فى كندا) ARZ Eeyou (cris) ATJ Криял AV کریلار AZB Kri BAR Кры Byelorussian Крий (народ) Bulgarian Cree BS
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 Map of Cree and closely related languages | |
| Total population | |
| 356,655 (2016 census),[1] including Atikamekw and Innu | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Canada | |
| Alberta | 95,300 (2016)[2] |
| Saskatchewan | 89,990 (2016)[2] |
| Manitoba | 66,895 (2016)[2] |
| Ontario | 36,750 (2016)[2] |
| British Columbia | 35,885 (2016)[2] |
| Quebec | 27,245 (2016)[2] |
| Languages | |
| Cree, Cree Sign Language, English, French | |
| Religion | |
| Anglicanism, Indigenous religion, Pentecostalism, Roman Catholicism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Métis, Oji-Cree, Ojibwe, Innu, Naskapi | |
| *nehi + *rowi / *elenyiwa "balance" + "action, movement" / "human being" | |
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The Cree are a North American Indigenous people, numbering more than 350,000 in Canada, where they form one of the country's largest First Nations macro-communities.[1] There are numerous Cree peoples and several nations closely related to the Cree, these being the: Plains Cree, Woodland Cree, Rocky Cree, Swampy Cree, Moose Cree, and East Cree with the Atikamekw, Innu, and Naskapi being closely related. Also closely related to the Cree are the Oji-Cree and Métis, both nations of mixed heritage, the former with Ojibweg and the latter with European fur traders. Cree homelands account for a majority of eastern and central Canada, from Eeyou Istchee in the East in what is now Quebec to northern Ontario, much of the Canadian prairies, and up into British Columbia and the Northwest Territories.[3][4] Although a majority of Cree live in Canada, there are small communities in the United States, living mostly in Montana where they share Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation with the Ojibwe (Chippewa) people.[5]
The Cree are in a variety of treaty relations with the Canadian state. Most notable are the Numbered Treaties which cover a majority of Cree homelands. In Quebec, the East Cree (along with the Inuit of Nunavik) entered into one of the first modern treaties: the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement which formalized relations between the province and both Eeyou Istchee and the Nunavik region of Inuit Nunangat. A documented westward migration, over time, has been strongly associated with their roles as traders and hunters in the North American fur trade.[6]
- ^ a b "2016 Canadian Census". Statistics Canada. 21 June 2018. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
- ^ a b c d e f "Aboriginal Population Profile, 2016 Census". Statistics Canada. 21 June 2018. Retrieved 26 May 2022.
- ^ "Cree". The Canadian Encyclopedia (online ed.). Historica Canada. 9 October 2018.
- ^ "2016 Canada Census". Statistics Canada. 21 June 2018. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
- ^ "Gateway to Aboriginal Heritage". Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation.
- ^ Mackenzie, Alexander (1903). Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793. New York: A. S. Barnes & Company at Project Gutenberg