"Cree" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... proceeded in his progress through the country, preaching, catechizing and baptizing; travelling through Galloway, where he was encountered with a most insolent protestation given in against him by the professors between Dee and Cree, subscribed by one Hutchison, which paper he read over at a public meeting in that bounds (after a lecture upon Psalm xv. and a sermon from Song ii. 2.), giving the people to know what was done in their name, with several animadversions thereon, as that which overturned several pieces of ...
— Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) • John Howie
... been a Cree squaw who married a French trapper. The son of this union became in due time the father of Auguste Dumont. Auguste married a woman whose mother was a French half-breed and whose father was a pure-bred Highland Scotchman. The result of this atrocious mixture ...
— Further Chronicles of Avonlea • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... Mohegan nunon, gone, or spent; the Pawnee sihuks, hands half; the Dakota zaptan, hand turned down; and the Massachusetts napanna, on one side. Ten is the end of the finger count, but is not always expressed by the "both hands" formula so commonly met with. The Cree term for this number is mitatat, no further; and the corresponding word in Delaware is m'tellen, no more. The Dakota 10 is, like its 5, a straightening out of the fingers which have been turned over in counting, or wickchemna, spread out unbent. The same is true of the Hidatsa ...
— The Number Concept - Its Origin and Development • Levi Leonard Conant
... Ruttledge's office whispered: ee: cree. They always build one door opposite another for the wind to. Way in. ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce
... missionary [i.e., Mgr. Faraud, in Annales de la Propagation de la Foi, xxxvi (1864), 388 et seq.] reports a deluge legend current among the Crees, another tribe of the Algonquin stock in Canada; but this Cree story bears clear traces of Christian influence, for in it the man is said to have sent forth from the canoe, first a raven, and second a wood-pigeon. The raven did not return, and as a punishment ...
— Filipino Popular Tales • Dean S. Fansler
... on crystal Cree, For mony a day a toil'd wicht was he; And the bairns they play'd harmless roun' his knee, Sae ...
— Spare Hours • John Brown
... His eyes opened wider, he moved, and the face drew back. Movement stimulated returning life, and reason rehabilitated itself in great bounds. In a dozen flashes he went over all that had happened up to the point where he had fallen down the mountain and into the Cree camp. Straight above him he saw the funnel-like peak of a large birch wigwam, and beyond his feet he saw an opening in the birch-bark wall through which there drifted a blue film of smoke. He was in a wigwam. It was warm and exceedingly ...
— Isobel • James Oliver Curwood
... notre bien vont etre satisfaits, et nous esperons voir bientot s'elever dans notre ville un monument qui, sans porter le nom de Vattemare, sera designe comme son oeuvre aux generations futures. Vous aurez ainsi cree les moyens d'unir le Canada avec les autres nations dans le magnifique et bienveillant systeme d'echanges internationaux, plan qui ne doit pas seulement etre considere sous le point de vue commercial, mais comme un grand ...
— Movement of the International Literary Exchanges, between France and North America from January 1845 to May, 1846 • Various
... thing done, we can find a man in the force fit for the job. One of the boys I took up can talk to them in Cree or Assiniboin; and it wouldn't beat us if they spoke Hebrew or Greek. There's a trooper in ...
— The Intriguers • Harold Bindloss
... than lance or bow, When he heard the whoop of his enemies. Five feathers he wore of the great Wanmdee, And each for the scalp of a warrior slain, When down on his camp from the northern plain, With their murder cries rode the bloody Cree. [35] But never the stain of an infant slain, Or the blood of a mother that plead in vain, Soiled the honored plumes of the brave Hohe. A mountain bear to his enemies, To his friends like the red fawn's dappled form; In peace, like the breeze from the ...
— Legends of the Northwest • Hanford Lennox Gordon
... 18th. To Cree Church, to see it how it is; but I find no alteration there, as they say there was, for my Lord Mayor and Aldermen to come to sermon, as they do every Sunday, as they did formerly ...
— The Diary of Samuel Pepys • Samuel Pepys
... son ministere, presque toujours avec succes, et tojours avec desinteressement. Cette societe s'est appercue que de nombreuses assemblees, n'avoient pas d'action, parce que le mouvement se perdoit en se divisant en trop de membres; elle a cree plusiers comites, toujours en activite; elle sollicite des creations semblables dans tous les etats; afin que par-tout les loix sur l'abolition de la traite et sur l'affranchissement soient executees; afin que par-tout ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Vol. I. Jan. 1916 • Various
... and half Cree; my mother is about three-quarters Cree; her grandfather was French," replied the boy, while his whole loyal young heart reached out towards this great man, who was lifting him out of the depths of obscurity. Then His Excellency's hands rested with a peculiar half fatherly, half brotherly ...
— The Shagganappi • E. Pauline Johnson
... 4 5 & all Day 6t of January 1805 all last night rained without intermition, & the morning. I sat out with 12 men in 2 Canoes to around thro the bay and up a Creek to an old landing at which place the Indians have a roade across thro Shashes West I landed made the Canoes fast and Set out up the Cree on a road passed thro 3 Stashes to a pond, then up & around th bend along a bad thick way, took an Indian path which took us to a Creek which runs into the Sand bay at which place we found a Canoe which took ...
— The Journals of Lewis and Clark • Meriwether Lewis et al
... my wee ham, saw ye my ain ham, Saw ye my pork ham down on yon lea? Crossed it the prairie last night in the darkness Borne by an old and unprincipled Cree?" ...
— Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... across the prairie, they were galloping hard and fast; For the eyes of those desperate riders had sighted their man at last— Sighted him off to Eastward, where the Cree encampment lay, Where the cotton woods fringed the river, miles and miles away. Mistake him? Never! Mistake him? the famous Eagle Chief! That terror to all the settlers, that desperate Cattle Thief— That monstrous, fearless ...
— Flint and Feather • E. Pauline Johnson
... woman an' chil'ren 's runnin' out On de wigwam of de Cree— De leetle papoose dey laugh an' shout W'en de soun' of hees voice dey hear— De oldes' warrior of de Sioux Kill hese'f dancin' de w'ole night t'roo, An de Blackfoot girl remember too De ...
— The Voyageur and Other Poems • William Henry Drummond
... the purpose of pipe manufacture, although they were then fully five hundred miles from their lodges. Such a traditional adherence to a choice of material peculiar to a remote source, may frequently prove of considerable value as a clue to former migrations of the tribes. Both the Cree and the Winnebago Indians carve pipes in stone of a form now more frequently met with in the Indian curiosity stores of Canada and the States than any other specimens of native carving. The tube, cut at a sharp right angle with the cylindrical bowl of the pipe, is ornamented ...
— Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce • E. R. Billings
... had stopped his dogs and now turned back to speak to the two men. His face was expressionless. He was a tall specimen of the Cree Indian. ...
— The Hound From The North • Ridgwell Cullum
... understand, and attempted to say so as well as he could by signs, and the use of the few words of the Cree language which his father had taught him. In the course of his speech (if we may use that term), he chanced to mention ...
— Silver Lake • R.M. Ballantyne |
