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
Moosonee
associatedWithRiver Moose River
country Canada
culturalPractice land-based education
oral storytelling traditions
seasonal land use and migration
culturalRegion Subarctic culture area
linked to: Subarctic region
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
historicalSite Moose Factory trading post
linked to: Moose Factory
language Moose Cree dialect
linked to: Swampy Cree dialect
languageFamily Algonquian languages
locatedIn Ontario
Subarctic region
partOf Cree Nation
Indigenous peoples in Northern Ontario
recognizedAs First Nation band government
region Hudson Bay coast
linked to: Hudson Bay

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

northern Ontario
linked to: Northern Ontario
traditionalTransport canoe
snowshoe
toboggan
treatyAffiliation Treaty 9
usesDialect Moose Cree

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
Nēhiyawēwin hasDialect Moose Cree
Ininīmowin hasDialect Moose Cree