Editing Cree (section)

{{short description|First Nations peoples in Canada and northern United States}}
{{Other uses}}
{{distinguish|Kree}}
{{redirect|Nêhiyawak|the rock group|Nêhiyawak (band)}}
{{redirect|Nehiyaw|the children's book author|Glecia Bear}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2020}}
{{Infobox ethnic group
| group            = Cree
| native_name      = {{lang|cr-Latn|néhinaw}} {{lang|cr-Cans|ᓀᐦᐃᓇᐤ}}
<br />{{lang|cr-Latn|néhiyaw}} {{lang|cr-Cans|ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐤ}}<br />etc.
| native_name_lang = cr
| image            = Cree Indians in camp, probably Montana, ca 1893 (LAROCHE 56).jpeg
| caption          = A Cree camp, likely in [[Montana]], photographed {{Circa|1893}}
| flag             = 
| flag_caption     = Flag of Cree people of Canada
| population       = 356,655 (2016 census)<ref name="auto1">{{Cite web |url=https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/abpopprof/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo1=PR&Code1=01&Data=Count&SearchText=Canada&SearchType=Begins&B1=All&C1=All&SEX_ID=1&AGE_ID=1&RESGEO_ID=1 |title=2016 Canadian Census |publisher=[[Statistics Canada]] |access-date=28 April 2019 |date=21 June 2018}}</ref><br />Including [[Atikamekw]] and [[Innu]]
| popplace         = Canada
| region1          = [[Alberta]]
| pop1             = 95,300 <small>(2016)</small><ref name="2016-profile">{{Cite web |url=https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/abpopprof/index.cfm?Lang=E|title=Aboriginal Population Profile, 2016 Census|publisher=[[Statistics Canada]]|access-date=26 May 2022|date=21 June 2018}}</ref>
| region2          = [[Saskatchewan]]
| pop2             = 89,990 <small>(2016)</small><ref name="2016-profile"/>
| region3          = [[Manitoba]]
| pop3             = 66,895 <small>(2016)</small><ref name="2016-profile"/>
| region4          = [[Ontario]]
| pop4             = 36,750 <small>(2016)</small><ref name="2016-profile"/>
| region5          = [[British Columbia]]
| pop5             = 35,885 <small>(2016)</small><ref name="2016-profile"/>
| region6          = [[Quebec]]
| pop6             = 27,245 <small>(2016)</small><ref name="2016-profile"/>
| languages        = [[Cree language|Cree]], [[Plains Indian Sign Language|Cree Sign Language]], English, French
| rels             = [[Anglicanism]], [[Indigenous religion]], [[Pentecostalism]], [[Roman Catholicism]]
| related          = [[Métis]], [[Oji-Cree]], [[Ojibwe]], [[Innu]], [[Naskapi]]
}}

The '''Cree''', or '''nehinaw''' ({{lang|cr-Latn|néhiyaw}}, {{lang|cr-Latn|nihithaw}}), are a [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|North American Indigenous people]], numbering more than 350,000 in [[Canada]], where they form one of the country's largest [[First Nations in Canada|First Nations]].<ref name="auto1" /> They live primarily to the north and west of [[Lake Superior]] in the [[Provinces and territories of Canada|provinces]] of [[Alberta]], [[Labrador]], [[Manitoba]], the [[Northwest Territories]], [[Ontario]], and [[Saskatchewan]].<ref name="ce">{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Cree |encyclopedia=[[The Canadian Encyclopedia]] |publisher=[[Historica Canada]] |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/cree |date=9 October 2018 |edition=online}}</ref> Another roughly 27,000 live in [[Quebec]].<ref>{{cite web |date=21 June 2018 |title=2016 Canada Census |url=https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/abpopprof/details/Page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo1=PR&Code1=24&Data=Count&SearchText=Quebec&SearchType=Begins&B1=All&C1=All&GeoLevel=PR&GeoCode=24&SEX_ID=1&AGE_ID=1&RESGEO_ID=1 |access-date=28 April 2019 |publisher=[[Statistics Canada]]}}</ref> 

In the [[United States]], the Cree, historically, lived from Lake Superior westward. Today, they live mostly in [[Montana]], where they share [[Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation]] with [[Ojibwe]] (Chippewa) people.<ref name="three">{{cite web |url=http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/exhibitions/tresors/ethno/etb0000e.shtml |work=Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation |title=Gateway to Aboriginal Heritage}}</ref>

A documented westward migration, over time, has been strongly associated with their roles as traders and hunters in the [[North American fur trade]].<ref>{{Gutenberg |no=35658 |name=Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793 |first=Alexander |last=Mackenzie |author-link=Alexander Mackenzie (explorer) |date=1903 |publisher=A. S. Barnes & Company |location=New York |bullet=none}}</ref>