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Throughout history, Cree have always been reticent about sharing their beliefs with scoffing outsiders. The religion was animistic, and all living beings and some inanimate objects had spirits, or manitowak. Humans, through dreams and visions, were able to secure the help of powerful animal spirits in such activities...
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www.everyculture.com/North-America/Cree-Western-Woods-R...
www.everyculture.com/North-America/Cree-Western-Woods-Religion-and-Expressive-Culture.html
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Storytelling is very important to the Cree Indian culture. Here is one legend about how the Cree people hunted the moose. What about Cree religion?;
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www.bigorrin.org/cree_kids.htm
www.bigorrin.org/cree_kids.htm
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Online exhibit of Cree artifacts from the Canadian Museum of Civilization. Native American Religion:; Advice for people researching traditional Cree religion and other American Indian spirituality. Crees:;
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www.native-languages.org/cree_culture.htm
www.native-languages.org/cree_culture.htm
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Cree language information and the culture, history and genealogy of the Cree Indians. Covers the Plains, Swampy, and Woodland Cree dialects, with a short dictionary of Cree words, Cree language stories, names, and Cree syllabics. ... Native Languages of the Americas: Cree...
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www.native-languages.org/cree.htm
www.native-languages.org/cree.htm
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Browsing subject area: Cree Indians -- Religion (About this browser) ... Filed under: Cree Indians -- Religion ... Grateful Prey: Rock Cree Human-Animal Relationships (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Robert Brightman (HTML at UC Press)
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onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/browse?type=l...
onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/browse?type=lcsubc&key=Cree%20Indians%20--%20Religion
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Ethnic or tribal religions; Cree Indians - Religion and mythology.; Religion; New Age / Body, Mind & Spirit; Biography & Autobiography / General; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies - Tribes; General; New Age; Biography & Autobiography; New Age / Parapsychology; Cree Indians; Great Plains; Indians of North America;
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www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0062500260/701-3529879-4...
www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0062500260/701-3529879-4889108
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Cree wearing sun dance dress, June 1895 ... The Plains Cree practised an ancient ceremony called the sun dance. The people referred to it as Nipakwe Cimuwin, or "thirst dance." Some have also called it a rain dance. Whatever people called it, to complete this ceremony required personal strength and courage.
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www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/settlement/kids/021013-2161...
www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/settlement/kids/021013-2161.12-e.html
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The book examines aspects of the Cree hunting culture and what the writer terms "the older Cree religion" rather than the more modern form of Catholicism practiced by the community.
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www.goodminds.com/booksatom/Grateful-Prey-Rock-Cree-Hum...
www.goodminds.com/booksatom/Grateful-Prey-Rock-Cree-Human-Animal-Relationship.html
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CREE INDIAN PROPHECY ... They would be free of petty jealousies and love all mankind as their brothers, regardless of color, race or religion. They would feel happiness enter their hearts, and become as one with the entire human race.
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www.birdclan.org/rainbow.htm
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