单词 | plains cree |
释义 | Plains Creen.adj.α. 1800s– Plains Cree. β. 1800s– Plain Cree. A. n. A member of a Cree people inhabiting the parts of Saskatchewan and Alberta that comprise the northernmost area of the North American plains; the dialect of Cree spoken by this people. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > Plains Indian > [noun] > Algonquian Piegan1772 Cheyenne1778 Fall Indian1779 Blackfoot1796 Minnetaree1805 Plains Cree1810 Siksika1843 blood1844 Prairie Cree1863 Gros Ventre1868 Wood Cree1885 Wood Cree1910 1810 A. Henry Jrnl. 13 Feb. (1992) II. 429 As for the Plains Cree below, we wish to have nothing to do with them. 1858 H. Y. Hind Rep. Assiniboine & Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition 53/1 Immediately on the banks of the Qu'Appelle Valley here are the remains of ancient encampments, where the Plain Crees, in the day of their power and pride had erected large skin tents. 1879 H. M. Robinson Great Fur Land ix. 186 Along its entire border there prevails..a state of perpetual warfare: on the north and east with the Plain Crees. 1908 Amer. Anthropologist 10 199 We have in the Plains Cree of Canada part of a distinct ethnic group adopting the culture of the area without losing connection with the whole. 1928 L. Bloomfield in C. F. Hockett Leonard Bloomfield Anthol. (1970) 200 Bad Owl was one of the young Plains Cree who hired out to us one spring to make the river voyage. 1940 Anthropol. Papers Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. XXXVII. 195/2 Among the Plains Cree, the horse was the standard of prestige value by means of which the status criteria of wealth, valor, and liberality could best be realized. 1948 H. E. Hives Cree Gram. 3 In the open country of the Saskatchewans live the Plain Cree. 1996 Handbk. N. Amer. Indians XVII. 400 Plains Cree..does not distinguish obviation in inanimate nouns. B. adj. (attributive). Of, relating to, or characteristic of this people or their language. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [adjective] > Algonquian languages Shawnee1674 Cree1744 Potawatomi1789 Nipissing1793 Miami1804 Algic1827 Beothuk1842 Blackfoot1845 Yurok1851 Passamaquoddy1856 Plains Cree1860 Maliseet1863 Ojibwa1937 the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > Plains Indian > [adjective] > Algonquian Piegan1790 Plains Cree1860 Prairie Cree1926 1860 H. Y. Hind Narr. Canad. Red River Exped. I. xvi. 360 All..objected strongly to..hunting buffalo during the winter in the Plain Cree country. 1862 H. Y. Hind Overland Route to Brit. Columbia 37 Battle River is frequented by Blackfeet and Plain Cree Indians. 1914 A. Skinner in Rep. Amer. Museum Hist. 11 41 (title) Political organization, cults and ceremonies of the Plains-Ojibway and Plains-Cree Indians. 1928 L. Bloomfield in C. F. Hockett Leonard Bloomfield Anthol. (1970) 200 As for our own Indians, in spite of their Plains Cree contempt for the Swampy Cree, they did not joke with the old man. 1940 Anthropol. Papers Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 37 251/1 The concept of a single all powerful creator was dominant in Plains Cree religious ideology and ceremonialism. 1970 W. L. Morton Seeing Unliterary Landscape in Mosaic 3 No. 3. 9 Hind's vivid rendering of..the Plains Cree warriors riding in file down the slopes of the Assiniboine to Fort Ellice. 1997 P. Bakker Lang. of our Own ix. 256 Part of this controversy is caused by a confusion of the Plains Cree language and the Plains Cree people. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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