"Crees" is a word in ENGLISH
An Algonquin tribe of Indians, inhabiting a large part
of British America east of the Rocky Mountains and south of Hudson's
Bay.
I can hear someone whispering, like a mother quieting her small child: shhh…shhh…shhh…a pregnant pause taking shape and growing between each whisper, bringing life to the next series of sounds. They last no more than a few seconds, these brief acts of creation.
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An American tourist found himself in a sleepy country village, and asked one of the locals the age of the oldest inhabitant. "Well, sir," replied the villager, "we ain't got one now. He died last week."
Alt. of Algonkin
Read the complete definitionA linguistic group of warlike North American Indians, belonging to the same stock as the Algonquins, and including several tribes, …
Read the complete definition; sing. Huron. (Ethnol.) A powerful and warlike tribe of North American Indians of the Algonquin stock. They formerly occupied …
Read the complete definitionA general name for a group of Algonquin tribes which formerly occupied the coast region of North America from Connecticut …
Read the complete definitionAn Algonquin tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited a part of Illinois.
Read the complete definitionThe name used by the Algonquin Indians for the shell beads which passed among the Indians as money.
Read the complete definitionA female; a woman; -- in the language of Indian tribes of the Algonquin family, correlative of sannup.
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