| The Cree Indian Tribe occupies territory from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean. They are Canada’s largest native group with 200,000 registered members in communities across Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Alberta. There are also more than 100,000 Metis people in Canada, many of whom are descendants of Cree Indians and French Canadian voyageurs. The name ‘Cree’ is said to derive from the French name for the tribe, ‘Kristenaux’ which is thought to be a corruption of the French word for ‘Christian’ or an Algonquian word for ‘first people’. |
