The Woodland Cree live in the forested areas of central and eastern Canada. Due to the many dialects of the Cree language, the people have no modern collective autonym. January can be between -10ºC and -30ºC. Lang. During winter they lived in small family groups. It was quite a strenuous undertaking for the Cree women, as they did most of the work. In this revised edition, first reprinted in 1978, Part One contains the original material dealing with Plains Cree history and ethnology. The Cree soon become middlemen, establishing treaties with other First Nations, notably the Plains Assiniboine and the Blackfoot. The Plains Cree Tribe were trading with the colonist and the Hudson Bay Company. Cris, inhabited for a time the region about Red river, intermingled with the Chippewa and Maskegon, but were attracted to the plains by the buffalo, the Cree like the Chippewa being essentially a forest people. CREE. The Plains Cree were allied with the Assiniboine and the Saulteaux Native Indian tribes in what was known as the "Iron Confederacy".

Woods Cree: northern Alberta and Saskatchewan. Plains Cree: 34,000 people in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and Montana. First published in 1940, David Mandelbaum's study remains the definitive account of the Plains Cree.
The Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation is home to the Chippewa Cree Tribe and is located in rural north-central Montana.

The Crees are a tribe with a long history in the United States and Canada. As for their main protein source, it was definitely fish, along with moose and deer meat. The plains cree are nomadic and the woodland Cree are semi-nomadic. Naskapi and Montagnais (known as the Innu): are inhabitants of an area they refer to as Nitassinan. Winters are cold. The Plains Cree are one of eight subgroups of the indigenous Cree people. They traded at a post by the Albany rive, Moose river, and Nelson river. CREE. They can also be divided into two major culture groups: the Woodland Cree and the Plains Cree. The Plains Cree The Plains Cree adopted a nomadic lifestyle, hunting the great buffalo herds and living in tepees made of buffalo hides. A portion of the Cree, as appears from the tradition given by Lacombe 1 Lacombe, Dict. The Plains Cree and Attikamekw refer to themselves using modern forms of the historical nêhiraw, namely nêhiyaw and nêhirawisiw, respectively. The Cree are often divided up into a number of smaller groups such as the James Bay Cree, Swampy Cree, and Moose Cree. Climate. On the plains, summers can be between 10ºC and 30ºC. Plains Cree – a total of 34,000 people in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and Montana. Our History. The Cree had four seasons every year, with a cycle for winter and summer. 1870 – Rupert’s Land becomes a part of the Dominion of Canada. Their territories comprise most of the present-day political jurisdictions of eastern Quebec and Labrador. These subgroups are generally differentiated by the traditional ancestral lands in which they lived prior to European contact. The Rocky Boy’s Reservation was the last of the seven federally recognized reservations to be created in the State of Montana. The Cree Indians planted and guarded the crop, harvested it, hulled it, dried it and smoked it.

Feb 24, 1730 Their current territory ranges from the eastern shores of James Bay, down through northern Ontario, across the Prairie Provinces of Canada to the Rocky Mountains, north to the Northwest Territories, and south to the states of Montana and the Dakotas..