Cree

Examples

• All

• But when Tall reached Canada, along that red broken trail, the Cree rejected all his attempts at conversion.

  Fiction book (1990)

• Even your indigenous Americans, I believe it was your Cree, used to...

  Intolerable Cruelty (2003)

• Yes, sir, I still speak Cree.

  Bones of Crows (2023)

• How do you say "joke" in Cree?

  Bones of Crows (2023)

• Yes, there are Cree in Montana.

  Bandolero! (1968)

• Even more importantly, the use of Cree script seemed to have enhanced rather than weakened tribal and familial ties.

  Academic text (1998)

• Baby Tamara Okeynan's death on the Samson Cree Reserve in Alberta in the spring of 1998 was a national story.

  Fiction book (2002)

• On the occasion of treaties with the Cree, Canadians regarded Native symbols, language, and acts merely as embellished ceremony.

  Academic text (1995)

• Manuel retired in poor health and was replaced by Noel Starblanket, a 29-year-old Cree from the Starblanket reserve in Saskatchewan.

  Fiction book (2002)

• My name is Aline Spears, and I am from the Cree Nation in Manitoba, Canada.

Synonyms

N

native

vsCree

78 3.7

A person from the original people of a place, not later settlers

is a more specific group member within that population, found mainly in Canada

A

aboriginal

vsCree

4 7.6

A member of the first people who lived in a region

is a specific group member within that original population living mainly in Canada

A

aborigine

vsCree

1 8.6

A person from the first people living in a place before others arrived

is the same idea but denotes a specific group living mainly in Canada

I

indigene

vsCree

1 9.4

A person native to a place where their family lived for many generations

is a specific member of that indigenous community living mainly in Canada

Compounds

C

Cree language

1 9.1

A language of the Cree people spoken mainly in Canada

Surface Forms

Etymology