Moose Cree
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Moose Cree (Cree: Mōsonī or Ililiw), also known as Moosonee (Monsoni), and together with Eastern Swampy Cree, also known as Central Cree, West James Bay Cree or West Main Cree. They speak the l-dialect of the Cree language.
The Moose Cree were first noted in Jesuit Relations for 1671, along the shores of James Bay and along the Moose River. On the [http://rla.unc.edu/Mapfiles/BSH3/BSH%20B%204044-16.HMC.3.jpg Ochagach map (c. 1728)], they (as "Monsonnis") were noted as far inland as the Rainy Lake region.
First Nations
- Abitibi River Cree (historical)
- Abitibiwinni First Nation (also Algonquin and Ojibwe)
- Wahgoshig First Nation (also Algonquin and Ojibwe)
- Moose River Cree (historical)
- Brunswick House First Nation (also Ojibwe)
- Chapleau Cree First Nation
- Constance Lake First Nation (also Ojibwe)
- Kashechewan First Nation (also Swampy Cree)
- Matachewan First Nation (also Ojibwe)
- Missanabie Cree First Nation (also Ojibwe)
- Moose Cree First Nation
- Taykwa Tagamou Nation
- Lake Nipigon Cree (historical)
- Piscotagami River Cree (historical)
- Rainy Lake Cree (historical)
External links
- Bishop, Charles A. [https://books.google.com/books?id=WOCL_SwWH-sC&pg=PA158 "Territorial Groups Before 1821: Cree and Ojibwa"] in Handbook of North American Indians: Subarctic. {{ISBN|0160045789}}
- Bishop, Charles A. [http://iportal.usask.ca/docs/Prairie%20Forum/The%20Western%20James%20Bay%20Cree%20%28v8no2_1983_pg147-155%29.pdf "The Western James Bay Cree: Aboriginal and Early Historic Adaptions"] in Prairie Forum, 1982, Vol. 8, No.2.
- Honigmann, John J. [https://books.google.com/books?id=WOCL_SwWH-sC&pg=PA217 "West Main Cree"] in Handbook of North American Indians: Subarctic. {{ISBN|0160045789}}
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=VUYSAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA932 "Monsoni"] in Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico: Part 1: A-M.
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