Cree Indians
This is an introduction to the Cree Indians way of life explaining about the foods they ate, significance of story telling, myths, religious beliefs, rituals performed, and their present day way of life. It is almost impossible to touch on every aspect because of what is not printed and only known by elders.Some native words used by Cree Indians: Kiwetin meaning the north wind that brings misfortune (Gill, Sullivan 158). Another word is maskwa used for bear, the most intelligent and spiritually powerful land animal (Gill, Sullivan 182). A water lynx that holds control over lakes and rivers is called "Michi-Pichoux"; they are associated with unexplained deaths (Gill, Sullivan 189). Tipiskawipisim is used for the moon who is the sister of the sun. Once a flood destroys the first humans, Tipiskawipisim creates the first female (Gill, Sullivan 303). The history of the Cree Indians begins where they live for the most part in Canada, and some share reservations with other tribes in North Dakota. The Cree Indians, an Alogonquian tribe sometimes called Knisteneau, were essentially forest people, though an offshoot, the so-called Plains Cree, were buffalo hunters. The Cree's first encounter with white people was in 1640, the French Jesu
Erdoes, Richard, and Ortiz, Alfonso. Out of respect for the bear the hunter sometimes would put the hide away for one year before using it. The Crees see power in a different complex way being that human knowledge is always incomplete, and there is a gap between what humans think and what actually happens. The Cree face several major threats presently considering natural resources that are no longer available to them because of the hydro dam, paper mills, and mining companies. In them the Indian sees actual reflections of the qualities of the Great Spirit, which serve the same function as revealed scriptures in other religions. To find jobs to help them survive a skill that was necessary but few held were to be able to speak French (GCCEI). Corn could be left to dry in the fields, gathered and shelled to make into hominy by boiling with ashes. The Cree Indians later lost many of their tribe in the 1776 break out of small pox, battles with the Sioux, and a defeat to the Blackfeet in 1870. The children soon found it difficult while they were in school as well as when they returned home. Then it was painted with horizontal red stripes and stuck in the ground by the edge of the camp. Some of the foods prepared consisted of: buffalo and berry soup, turnip and corn soup, sauteed wild mushrooms and onions, corn griddle cakes, cattail pollen flapjacks, buffalo medicine sausage, buffalo jerky, venison mincemeat meat, and choke berry pudding (Cox, Jacobs 102). The plains geographical area is approximately 1. Some of these include school boards, health committees and social services boards. Because of the lack of formal education and professional training the changes to policies, programs, and structures of the organizations were slow to develop (GCCEI).
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