[bbyce] ethnological TYPES IN RUPERTS LAND !S7 



In considering the Saulteaux it is no't to be forgotten that it was 

 among those Indians at Sanlt Ste. Marie that H. R. Schoolcraft col- 

 lected his immense store of Indian legend, from which Longfellow 

 obtained the material of " Hiawatha." 



THE CEEES. 



But long before the Saulteaux developed in numbers and power, 

 the Ojibways of the Upper Lakes had spread themselves to the north 

 and west. Indeed, the migration noted by the early French explorers 

 from Sault Ste. Marie, was but one of the movements which had been 

 going on probably for many centuries before. The earlier Ojibway 

 migrations had" given rise to a vast nation, of several divisions, known 

 as the Crées. Their name was variously spelt by the early writers : 

 Christineaux, Kristinos, Klistinos, Kinistineaux, Knistinos, etc. 



Leaving Lake Superior and Lake Winnipeg and going northeast- 

 ward the rivers and lakes are found to supply food, and the forests 

 to provide hunting for a scattered tribe called the Muskegons or Maske- 

 gons. This type is stout, low-'set, dark, and somewhat stolid in appear- 

 ance. The women generally incline, especially in more advanced years, 

 to obesity. They are familiarly known as the Swamp or Swampy Crées, 

 from their country being largely made up of swamp or muskeg. Not 

 only do the Swampy Crées extend to Hudson Bay, but they are found 

 as a persistent type in Labrador, reaching up till they meet the Eski- 

 mos, with whom they are at deadly enmity. 



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While the Ojibways hold the Lake of the Woods district, and are 

 found at Red Lake and other Indian settlements in iSTorthwestern 

 Minnesota, they do not seem to have spread westward, past the Red 

 River and Lake Winnipeg region. The Crées, however, have pushed 

 beyond this district, and are found among the forests of the Winni- 

 pegoosis and Lower Saskatchewan. Their habits not having changed 

 from those of the Lake Superior and Lake Huron Indians, they resem- 

 ble the ordinary Wood Indian. They were called by the French " Les 

 Cris de bois," and now as wandering bands are known as the Wood 

 Crées. 



