Explore: Cree Resistance

armed rebellion of Métis under Louis Riel and an associated uprising of Cree and Assiniboine mostly in the District of Saskatchewan, against the Canadian

the Cree and Ojibwe. Canadian syllabics are currently used to write all of the Cree languages, including Eastern Cree, Plains Cree, Swampy Cree, Woods

Butte June 3 – North-West Rebellion: Battle of Loon Lake. The last Cree resistance is shattered. July 2 – Big Bear captured. July 6 – Riel is charged

The James Bay Cree hydroelectric conflict refers to the resistance by James Bay Cree to the James Bay Hydroelectric Project and the Quebec Government,

punishment for the resistance, the Canadian government tightened restrictions on the Willow Cree, severely cutting off their Willow Cree’s rations. The government

West, but within a short period of time many Cree (nēhiyaw) and Métis were also settled there. Today the Cree outnumber the Chippewa on the reservation.

but continued resistance was hopeless. The Métis had been defeated at the Battle of Batoche three weeks earlier, and Poundmaker's joint Cree-Assiniboine

and the subsequent enforced starvation of the Cree people, Big Bear began organizing the Cree for resistance. On March 28 the Indigenous people living at

Reed insisted that the hangings were public and hence the end of the Cree resistance was marked. What started as a peaceful protest ended in a two-week

Confederacy or Iron Confederation (also known as Cree-Assiniboine in English or Nehiyaw-Pwat in Cree) was a political and military alliance of Plains