kinistineaux

Updated: May 10, 2025

Thence that great tribe, called by themselves the Nahéowuk, but by the Ojibway Saulteaux the Kinistineaux, and by the voyageurs Christineaux, or, more commonly, the Crees a word derived, some think, from the first syllable of the latter name, or perhaps from the French crier, to shout descended upon the Blackfeet, who probably at that time occupied this region, and undoubtedly the Saskatchewan, and drove them south along a line stretching to the Rocky Mountains.

Charles Mair - Through the Mackenzie Basin: A Narrative of the Athabasca and Peace River Treaty Expedition of 1899