Buffalo-hunting horsemen of the parkland who, with the Assiniboine and Saulteaux, dominated the northern plains as the Iron Confederacy.
Treaty 6 (1876) and Treaty 4 settled them on reserves across Saskatchewan and Alberta as the buffalo vanished; they endure as dozens of thriving First Nations today.
The atlas holds 5 border frames for Plains Cree (Paskwāwiyiniwak) — the shape you scrub through changes in 1690 · 1731 · 1821 · 1876 · 1951.
The classic ethnography of the buffalo-hunting Cree of the parkland and their Iron Confederacy.
Disease, starvation and the treaty era that settled the Plains Cree on reserves (broad regional context).
Governor General's Award-winning novel centred on the real Plains Cree chief Mistahimaskwa (Big Bear) and his people's resistance to the treaty system on the Canadian plains in the 1870s-80s, squarely in the Plains Cree's era and place.