Oji-Cree
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Anishinini | |
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![]() Distribution of Anishinaabe peoples; the Oji-Cree are depicted by the orange band. | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Canada (Ontario, Manitoba) | |
Languages | |
Oji-Cree, English | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Ojibwe, Cree |
The Oji-Cree are a First Nation in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Manitoba, residing in a narrow band extending from the Missinaibi River region in Northeastern Ontario at the east to Lake Winnipeg at the west.
The Oji-Cree people are descended from historical intermarriage between the Ojibwa and Cree cultures, but are generally considered a nation distinct from either of their ancestral groups.[citation needed] They are considered one of the component groups of Anishinaabe, and reside primarily in a transitional zone between traditional Ojibwa lands to their south and traditional Cree lands to their north. Historically, the Oji-Cree were identified by the British and Canadian governments as "Cree." The Oji-Cree have identified with the Cree (or more specifically, the Swampy Cree) and not with the Ojibwa located to the south of them. Traditionally, they were called Noopiming-ininiwag (People in the Woods) by the Ojibwe. Oji-Cree at Round Lake First Nation were known as Ajijaakoons (little cranes), due to their chief's name, Ajijaak. The Oji-Cree identify by the autonym Anishinaabe or Anishinini (Original Human).
Their language and culture also derive from mixed Ojibwa and Cree traditions. Anishininimowin (the Oji-Cree language) is more closely related to Ojibwa structurally, although its literary tradition more closely resembles that of Cree. Anishinaabemowin has about 12,600 speakers.[1]
Oji-Cree bands[]
- Severn River Cree (historical)
- Big Trout Lake Band of Cree (historical)
- Deer Lake Band of Cree (historical)
- Island Lake Band of Cree (historical)
- Garden Hill First Nation – , , , ,
- Red Sucker Lake First Nation –
- St. Theresa Point First Nation – , ,
- Wasagamack First Nation – , ,
- Upland Ojibway (historical)
- Osnaburgh House Band of Ojibway (historical)
- Cat Lake First Nation –
- Mishkeegogamang First Nation (formerly known as New Osnaburgh House Band of Ojibway) – ,
- Slate Falls First Nation –
- Ojibway Nation of Saugeen First Nation –
- Fort Hope Band of Ojibway or Cree (historical)
- Aroland First Nation –
- Constance Lake First Nation –
- Eabametoong First Nation (also known as Fort Hope First Nation) –
- Marten Falls First Nation –
- Neskantaga First Nation (formerly Lansdowne House First Nation) – ,
- Nibinamik First Nation (also known as Summer Beaver First Nation –
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- Osnaburgh House Band of Ojibway (historical)
- Winisk River Cree (historical)
- Caribou Lake Band of Cree (Historical)
- Kasabonika Lake First Nation (ᑳᓭᐹᓇᐦᑳ ᓂᐢᑕᒼ ᐊᓂᐦᓯᓂᓂᐗᐠ (Gaa-zebaanikaa Nistam Anisininiwag); unpointed: ᑲᓭᐸᓂᑲ ᓂᐢᑕᒼ ᐊᓂᓯᓂᓂᐗᐠ) –
- Kingfisher First Nation – , ,
- North Caribou Lake First Nation (also known as Weagamow Lake First Nation or Round Lake First Nation) –
- Wapekeka First Nation (formerly Angling Lake First Nation) – ,
- Wawakapewin First Nation (ᐙᐙᑲᐯᐎᐣ ᓂᐢᑕᒼ ᐊᓂᐦᔑᓂᓂᐗᐠ (Waawaagabewin Nistam Anishininiwag); unpointed: ᐗᐗᑲᐯᐎᐣ ᓂᐢᑕᒼ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐗᐠ) (formerly Nemeigusabins Lake Band, Long Dog Lake Band or Long Dog Band) –
- Webequie First Nation – ,
- Wunnumin Lake First Nation – ,
- Caribou Lake Band of Cree (Historical)
References[]
Further reading[]
- Favel, Fred. Northern Lights and Satellites Kenina Kakekayash, Oji-Cree, Director of Radio, Wawatay Radio Network. [Ottawa]: Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, 2001. ISBN 0-662-65945-7
- Long, John. Treaty No. 9: Making the Agreement to Share the Land in Far Northern Ontario in 1905. Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010. ISBN 0-77353-760-0
- Macfie, John, and Basil Johnston. Hudson Bay Watershed A Photographic Memoir of the Ojibway, Cree, and Oji-Cree. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1991. ISBN 1-55002-088-9
- Rogers, Edward S. and Garth Taylor. "Northern Ojibwa" in Handbook of North American Indians: Subarctic. William C. Sturtevant, editor. Government Printing Office, 1978. ISBN 0-160-04578-9
- Triggs-Raine BL, et al. 2002. "HNF-1alpha G319S, a Transactivation-Deficient Mutant, Is Associated with Altered Dynamics of Diabetes Onset in an Oji-Cree Community". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 99, no. 7: 4614–9.
- Valentine, Lisa Philips. "Making It Their Own /Severn Ojibwe Communicative Practices", Anthropological Horizons, 7. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995. ISBN 0-8020-0643-4
- Valentine, Lisa Philips. "Work to Create the Future You Want" Contemporary Discourse in a Severn Ojibwe Community. 1990.
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