Moose Cree

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Moose Cree are a subgroup of the Cree people traditionally living in the James Bay and Hudson Bay lowlands of northern Ontario, Canada, with their own distinct dialect and cultural practices.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Moose Cree canonical 8

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Cree subgroup
First Nations people
Indigenous people
associatedWithCommunity Moose Factory Island
surface form: Moose Factory

Moosonee
associatedWithRiver Moose River
country Canada
culturalPractice land-based education
oral storytelling traditions
seasonal land use and migration
culturalRegion Subarctic region
surface form: Subarctic culture area
dialectOf Cree language
ethnicGroupOf Canada
governingBody Moose Cree First Nation
hasCollectiveRights Aboriginal rights in Canada
treaty rights in Canada
hasWritingSystem Canadian Aboriginal syllabics
Latin alphabet
historicalInteraction Hudson's Bay Company
surface form: Hudson’s Bay Company
historicalSite Moose Factory
surface form: Moose Factory trading post
language Swampy Cree dialect
surface form: Moose Cree dialect
languageFamily Algonquian languages
locatedIn Ontario
Subarctic region
partOf Opaskwayak Cree Nation
surface form: Cree Nation

Indigenous peoples in Northern Ontario
recognizedAs First Nation band government
region Hudson Bay
surface form: Hudson Bay coast

James Bay Lowlands
surface form: James Bay coast
religion Christianity
traditional Cree spirituality
selfIdentification Omushkego
subgroupOf Cree peoples
surface form: Cree people
traditionalClothing fur garments
traditionalEconomy fur trade
traditionalHousing wigwam
traditionalSubsistence fishing
gathering
hunting
trapping
traditionalTerritory Hudson Plains ecozone
surface form: Hudson Bay lowlands

James Bay Lowlands
surface form: James Bay lowlands

Northern Ontario
surface form: northern Ontario
traditionalTransport canoe
snowshoe
toboggan
treatyAffiliation Treaty 9
usesDialect Moose Cree self-link

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (8)

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

Cree hasSubgroup Moose Cree
Cree language macrolanguageOf Moose Cree
Cree peoples linguisticVariety Moose Cree
Swampy Cree relatedEthnicGroup Moose Cree
Moose Cree usesDialect Moose Cree self-link
Nēhiyawēwin hasDialect Moose Cree
Ininīmowin hasDialect Moose Cree