Cree Indians

Location

• Parts of Canada
• Northern United States
• North Dakota, Montana

Daily Life

• Women made clothes
• Kids- played lacrosse and other games
• Men- hunted and fished

Food

• The Cree ate mostly meat like-
• Elk, Caribou, Moose and Buffalo
• Women planted corn

Housing

• Woodland Cree- wigwams made of sticks and branches.
• Plains Cree- teepe made of Buffalo hide
• Both could fit one family

Traditions

• Men and women tell kids about stories, but only in the winter.
• Boys stay out in the woods alone for days so the gods can tell them what they are good at.
• These traditions are passed on generation after generation.

Population

• The Cree had a bigger tribe than anyone else.
• The estimated population was over 200,000.

Language

• The Cree language is a musical lanugage.
• However, most Cree speak French or English.

Cree Indians Today

• The Cree Indians live throughout Canada on reservations.
• They lead regular lives and live in regular houses.
• However, they still do traditional things the same way they were done in the 1800s.

Interesting Facts

• In 1781, a smallpox epidemic wiped out about half of the Cree population.
• The houses are built by the women.
• Women can now be the Cheif of the tribe.

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