The summer before, Adam had written a story about a 26-year-old Cree woman named Malena Loonskin who'd gone missing and then been found murdered.
Originally inhabiting a smaller nucleus of this area, they expanded rapidly in the 17th and 18th centuries after engaging in the fur trade and acquiring firearms; the name Cree is a truncated form of Kristineaux, a French adaptation of the self-name of the James Bay band.
Its present name (a Cree Indian term probably for "where there are reeds") was adopted by the North West Company when it built Ft. Chipewyan, a fur-trading post, on the southwestern shore in 1788.
The name derives from Cree manitou-wapow or Ojibwa manidoobaa, both meaning "straits of Manitou, the Great Spirit", a place referring to what are now called The Narrows in the centre of Lake Manitoba.
Sequence feature characteristics of the different lengths of CREE illustrated in Figure 1 show a general conservation of CREE structure based on length.
The river was so named because the Cree Indians made bows from Douglas firs that grew along its banks.
The river, named from a Cree word meaning "swift-flowing current," was for long an important fur-trading route after first being explored by Henry Kelsey in 1690.
Visited in the 1730s by the son of La Vérendrye (the French voyageur) and named from the Cree Indian words for "muddy water," the lake is a remnant of glacial Lake Agassiz.
The region, its name derived from the Cree Indian word for "north wind," is almost entirely within the Canadian Shield a physiographic area of rocky, ice-smoothed hills and irregular basins mostly filled by lakes and swamps and is largely a permafrost zone with Arctic tundra vegetation.
Two years ago, the commission overruled Cree Indian objections and gave Quebecois names to 101 deserted islands that the Cree said already had Indian names.
