Santa has a little bit of Cree ancestry, so figured this little bit of Cree Street needed a geocache.
The Cree are a North American Indigenous people. There are numerous Cree peoples, these being the: Plains Cree, Woodland Cree, Rocky Cree, Swampy Cree, Moose Cree, and East Cree. The Cree are the largest group of First Nations in Canada and the Cree homelands account for a majority of eastern and central Canada. Although a majority of Cree live in Canada, there are small communities in the United States, living mostly in Montana.
The word "Cree" comes into English from the French Cris, short for Christinaux (alternatively: Kristineaux, Kiristinous, or Kilistinous), which came from the Ojibwemowin word Kinistino. In general, Cree people use terms such as Nêhiyaw, Nīhithaw, or Nêhinaw to refer to themselves. These are two terms combined, which mean “balance” and “action, movement”; and can include the root *siw ("human being"), rendering "one who is in balance with nature" as its translation. However, due to the many dialects of the Cree language, there are many other forms used and the people have no modern collective autonym.