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Plains Cree
Also Plain Cree.
[f. plain n.1 1 b + Cree n. and a.]
A Cree Indian people formerly inhabiting the more northerly areas of the North American plains; a member of this people. Also attrib. or as adj.
[1823in J. Franklin Narr. Journey Shores Polar Sea iv. 108 The Crees, who inhabit the plains, being fur hunters are better known to the traders.] 1860H. Y. Hind Narr. Canad. Red River Expedition I. xix. 414 The Plain Crees are not fishermen like the Ojibways. 1879H. M. Robinson Great Fur Land ix. 186 Along its entire border there prevails..a state of perpetual warfare: on the north and east with the Plain Crees. 1908Amer. Anthropologist X. 199 We have in the Plains Cree of Canada part of a distinct ethnic group adopting the culture of the area without losing connection with the whole. 1913F. W. Hodge Handbk. Indians of Canada (1971) 382/2 Paskwawininiwug (‘prairie people’), the Plains Cree, one of the two great subdivisions of the Cree. 1928L. Bloomfield in C. F. Hockett Leonard Bloomfield Anthol. (1970) 200 As for our own Indians, in spite of their Plains Cree contempt for the Swampy Cree, they did not joke with the old man. Ibid., Bad Owl was one of the young Plains Cree who hired out to us one spring to make the river voyage. 1938P. H. Godsell Red Hunters of Snows v. 85 The Pasquainniniwuk or ‘People of the Plains’, roaming the prairies of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta..known to the fur traders as the Plains Crees, had..acquired most of the traits and characteristics of the buffalo-hunting tribes. 1940Anthropol. Papers Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. XXXVII. 195/2 Among the Plains Cree, the horse was the standard of prestige value by means of which the status criteria of wealth, valor, and liberality could best be realized. Ibid. 251/1 The concept of a single all powerful creator was dominant in Plains Cree religious ideology and ceremonialism. 1948H. E. Hives Cree Gram. 3 In the open country of the Saskatchewans live the Plain Cree. 1972D. Morton Last War Drum vii. 133 Big Bear and the Plains Crees set out, striking eastward, but..the Woods Crees turned north. |