North American Aboriginal ReportCree Tribe

Term Paper Title	North American Aboriginal ReportCree Tribe
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North American Aboriginal ReportCree Tribe
Jesuit missionaries, near a region of James Bay first discovered the Cree tribe during the 1940�s. They dwelled in regions spanning from Manitoba and the Assiniboia, from the Red and Saskatchewan rivers, and to the utmost Northern parts of the Nelson river and Athabasca lake. They were an Algonquian tribe that was mostly nomadic and moved along with the buffalo as well as other food, sometimes along with such tribes as the Chippewa and Maskegon. Eventually a variety of the Souix broke off from their tribe and became allied with the Cree. This alliance later lead to the Souix and the Siksika signing treaties, to fight of the emending Cree, who had just recently laid claim to British rifles and were raiding other tribes from their land as far North as regions near Churchill and as far West as the Rockies. When the Europeans came to the prairies, they brought many diseases such as smallpox, which kill...

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