Editing Cree (section)

== First contact ==
In Manitoba, the Cree were first contacted by Europeans in 1682, at the mouth of the Nelson and Hayes rivers by a [[Hudson's Bay Company]] (HBC) party traveling about {{convert|100|mi}} inland. In the south, in 1732; in what is now northwestern Ontario, [[Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye]], met with an assembled group of 200 Cree warriors near present-day [[Fort Frances]], as well as with the Monsoni,<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Theresa|first=Schenck|title=Identifying The Ojibwe|journal=Algonquian Papers|volume=25 |year=1994|page=396|url=https://ojs.library.carleton.ca/index.php/ALGQP/article/download/631/531}}</ref> (a branch of the [[Ojibwe]]). Both groups had donned war paint in preparation to an attack on the [[Dakota people|Dakota]] and another group of Ojibwe.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hlady |first=Walter M. |title=Indian Migrations in Manitoba and the West |journal=MHS Transactions |publisher=[[Manitoba Historical Society]] |series=Series 3 |volume=17 |year=1960 |url=http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/transactions/3/indianmigrations.shtml}}</ref>

After acquiring firearms from the HBC, the Cree moved as traders into the plains, acting as middlemen with the HBC.{{Citation needed|date=July 2022}}