Swampy Cree

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Swampy Cree are a subgroup of the Cree people, traditionally inhabiting the swamp and lowland regions of northern Manitoba, Ontario, and adjacent areas, with a distinct dialect and cultural practices.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Swampy Cree canonical 9
Northern East Cree 1
Swampy Cree Tribal Council 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indigenous people
subgroup of the Cree
country Canada
culturalArea Subarctic culture area
dialectOf Cree language
economicActivity fur trade
ethnicGroupOf Canada
governingBody Swampy Cree self-linksurface differs
surface form: Swampy Cree Tribal Council
historicalInteraction Hudson's Bay Company
language Swampy Cree dialect
languageFamily Algonquian languages
nativeName Maskēkowak
notableCommunity Chemawawin Cree Nation
Mosakahiken Cree Nation
Norway House Cree Nation
Opaskwayak Cree Nation
Tataskweyak Cree Nation
York Factory First Nation
partOf Algonquian peoples
surface form: Algonquian-speaking peoples
peopleCluster Cree Nations of Manitoba
Cree Nations of Ontario
region Subarctic
relatedEthnicGroup Cree Nation of Eeyou Istchee
surface form: East Cree

Moose Cree
Plains Cree
Woods Cree
religion Christianity
Cree traditional spirituality
subgroupOf Cree peoples
surface form: Cree people
traditionalEnvironment bogs
boreal forest
swamps
traditionalHousing log cabins
tents
traditionalSubsistence fishing
gathering
hunting
trapping
traditionalTerritory Hudson Plains ecozone
surface form: Hudson Bay lowlands

James Bay Lowlands
surface form: James Bay lowlands

Saskatchewan
surface form: eastern Saskatchewan

northern Manitoba
Northern Ontario
surface form: northern Ontario
treatyAffiliation Treaty 5
Treaty 9
writingSystem Canadian Aboriginal syllabics
Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (11)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Cree hasSubgroup Swampy Cree
Cree language macrolanguageOf Swampy Cree
Cree language macrolanguageOf Swampy Cree
this entity surface form: Northern East Cree
Cree peoples linguisticVariety Swampy Cree
Plains Cree relatedGroup Swampy Cree
Woods Cree relatedEthnicGroup Swampy Cree
Swampy Cree governingBody Swampy Cree self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Swampy Cree Tribal Council
Nēhiyawēwin hasDialect Swampy Cree
Ininīmowin hasDialect Swampy Cree