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Wood Cree
Also Woods Cree.
[f. wood n.1 + Cree n. and a.: a shortening of earlier Strong (also Thick) Woods Cree, tr. a Wood Cree name.]
1. a. One of the major divisions of the Cree Indians, inhabiting woodland areas of Saskatchewan and Manitoba in Canada. b. A member of this people. Cf. Plains Cree.
1885Boston Jrnl. 23 June 1/8 The Wood Crees have gone back to get a cache of provisions. 1910F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians II. 414/1 Sakawithiniwuk (‘people of the woods’). The Wood Cree, one of the several divisions of the Cree. 1947Beaver June 15/1 The Wood Crees, who were in the minority, were, in general, less troublesome. 1972[see Plains Cree].
2. The language spoken by the Wood Cree.
1958R. A. Logan Cree Lang. 4 One dialect (Moose Cree) uses the sound of L where another dialect (Northern or Woods Cree) uses the sound of TH... Only Northern Cree uses TH. 1978D. H. Pentland in Cook & Kaye Ling. Stud. Native Canada 190 Woods Cree is now spoken by about five per cent of the total number of Cree Speakers. |