Editing Cree (section)

== Name ==
The name "Cree" is derived from the [[Algonkian languages|Algonkian]]-language [[exonym]] {{lang|oj-Latn|Kirištino˙}}, which the [[Ojibwa]] used for tribes around [[Hudson Bay]]. The French colonists and explorers, who spelled the term {{lang|fr|Kilistinon}}, {{lang|fr|Kiristinon}}, {{lang|fr|Knisteneaux}},<ref>{{cite web |first=Neal |last=McLeod |title=Cree |website=Indigenous Saskatchewan Encyclopedia |publisher=[[University of Saskatchewan]] |access-date=27 October 2019 |url=https://teaching.usask.ca/indigenoussk/import/cree.php}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Mackenzie|first=Alexander|editor=Milo Quaife|title=Alexander Mackenzie's voyage to the Pacific ocean in 1793|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bzMXAAAAIAAJ&pg=PP1|year=1931|publisher=The Lakeside Press, R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co}}</ref> {{lang|fr|Cristenaux}}, and {{lang|fr|Cristinaux}}, used the term for numerous tribes which they encountered north of Lake Superior, in Manitoba, and west of there.<ref>{{cite book|last=Thompson|first=David|author-link=David Thompson (explorer)|title=Travels in western North America, 1784–1812|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=itEUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA109 |year=1971 |publisher=Macmillan of Canada |page=109|chapter=Life with the Nahathaways |isbn=9780770512125 |quote=The French Canadians...call them 'Krees', a name which none of the Indians can pronounce{{nbsp}}...}}</ref> The French used these terms to refer to various groups of peoples in Canada, some of which are now better distinguished as Severn [[Anishinaabe]] (Ojibwa), who speak dialects different from the Algonquin.<ref>{{cite journal |first1=Adolph M. |last1=Greeberg |first2=James |last2=Morrison |title=Group Identities in the Boreal Forest: The Origin of the Northern Ojibwa |journal=[[Ethnohistory (journal)|Ethnohistory]] |volume=29|issue=2|pages=75–102 |year=1982 |jstor=481370|doi=10.2307/481370}}</ref>

Depending on the community, the Cree may call themselves by the following names: the {{lang|cr-Latn|nēhiyawak, nīhithaw, nēhilaw}}, and {{lang|cr-Latn|nēhinaw}}; or {{lang|cr-Latn|ininiw, ililiw, iynu (innu)}}, or {{lang|cr-Latn|iyyu}}. These names are derived from the historical [[Endonym|autonym]] {{lang|cr-Latn|nēhiraw}} (of uncertain meaning) or from the historical autonym {{lang|cr-Latn|iriniw}} (meaning "person"). Cree using the latter autonym tend to be those living in the territories of Quebec and Labrador.<ref name=Pentland/> Alternative names include Inninu and Inninuwuk.