Some native words used by Cree Indians: Kiwetin meaning the north wind that brings misfortune (Gill, Sullivan 158). Another word is maskwa used for bear, the most intelligent and spiritually powerful land animal (Gill, Sullivan 182). A water lynx that holds control over lakes and rivers is called "Michi-Pichoux"; they are associated with unexplained deaths (Gill, Sullivan 189). Tipiskawipisim is used for the moon who is the sister of the sun. Once a flood destroys the first humans, Tipiskawipisim creates the first female (Gill, Sullivan 303).

The history of the Cree Indians begins where they live for the most part in Canada, and some share reservations with other tribes in North Dakota. The Cree Indians, an Alogonquian tribe sometimes called Knisteneau, were essentially forest people, though an offshoot, the so-called Plains Cree, were buffalo hunters. The Cree's first encounter with white people was in 1640, the French Jesu

This Cree story told about a young man courting a woman for the wrong reasons. The story was adapted by Barry Lopez and called "Coyote Marries A Man". A young man named Not Enough Horses decided he could not find any woman beautiful enough for him in his village. He sets off to find someone worthy of him, once he does he is married only to find out when awakes he married a Coyote. His whole village makes fun of him; however, he has still not learned his lesson. Once again he leaves and marries the first woman he comes in contact with thinking he would now be accepted in his tribe and finds out once again he was tricked and had married the Coyote the second time. This story was used to teach woman and men who were thinking of marriage how not to look for a mate by outward beauty, but inward beauty (Penn 112).

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Erdoes, Richard, and Ortiz, Alfonso. American Indian Trickster Tales. New York: Penguin Putnam, Inc., 1998.

The Cree Indians used the art of storytelling as a process that continues in its meaning and importance for the present and even future. Stories are remembered and told to be able to explore the world of things, beliefs, and ideas. Indians used stories for entertainment, education, and to explain life (Penn 6).

Rockwell, David. Giving Voice To Bear. Niwot, Colorado: Roberts Rinehart Publishers, 1991.

its. The Cree Indians later lost many of their tribe in the 1776 break out of small pox, battles with the Sioux, and a defeat to the Blackfeet in 1870. The Cree lived by hunting, fishing, trapping, and using muskrat as one of their staples. They made sacrifices to the sun; the Great Master of Life (Erdoes, Ortiz 504).

ortment of berries was gathered in different seasons, dried, and later used in cooking. Tea was made from wild mint, bark of elm tree, chokecherry trees, and roots of wild rose bushes. Medicinal teas were derived from wild broad-leafed sage, calamus, and cedar berries (Cox, Jacobs 100).

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