Cree
noun
- pl. Crees or Cree a member of a North American Indian people living mainly in the Canadian Prairie Provinces
- the Algonquian language of this people
See Cree in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(krē)
noun pl. Cree Cree or
Crees a. A Native American people inhabiting a large area from eastern Canada west to Alberta and the Great Slave Lake. Formerly located in central Canada, the Cree expanded westward and eastward in the 17th and 18th centuries, the western Cree adopting the Plains Indian life and the eastern Cree retaining their woodland culture.
b. A member of this people.
- The Algonquian language of the Cree.
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