Note 84 — VOYAGES AND TRAVELS (continued 3)

The Cristinaux (Kiristinou, Killistinoe) Indians, now known as Crees, are Algonquian tribes who have always been associated with the Assiniboins (Assinipoils), a Siouan tribe derived early from the Yankton Dakotas. Their habitat has been the wilderness between Lake Superior and Hudson Bay, and the land to the west as far as the Assiniboin and Saskatchewan rivers. They were well known to the early French explorers (see Wisconsin Historical Collections, xvi), and were the chief Indians with whom the Hudson’s Bay Company traded. They still number over twelve thousand. See Henry, Travels (Bain ed.), p. 249.—Ed.