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Woodland & Swampy Cree (Nēhiyawak)

1612 – present
Native nationNorth America

Boreal-forest and Hudson Bay-lowland Cree who became the indispensable middlemen of the Hudson's Bay Company fur trade.

Treaty 5 (1875) and Treaty 10 brought reserves around Lake Winnipeg and the Saskatchewan River; they remain numerous First Nations across Manitoba, Saskatchewan and northern Ontario.

Borders in 2026 · drawn from 5 sourced border frames
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Borders over time

The atlas holds 5 border frames for Woodland & Swampy Cree (Nēhiyawak) — the shape you scrub through changes in 1612 · 1670 · 1821 · 1875 · 1951.

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