Omushkego

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Omushkego are a Cree-speaking Indigenous people of the western James Bay and Hudson Bay lowlands in northern Canada, with a distinct culture, history, and relationship to the muskeg landscape.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Omushkego canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Cree subgroup
Indigenous people
affectedBy Canadian residential school system
forced sedentarization policies
engagesIn cultural revitalization
land rights advocacy
language revitalization
ethnicGroupOf Canada
hasContemporaryCommunities coastal communities on Hudson Bay
coastal communities on James Bay
hasCulturalConcept strong relationship to muskeg wetlands
hasCulturalRegion subarctic
hasDistinctCulture yes
hasDistinctHistory yes
hasHistoricalRelation Canadian federal government
Christian missionaries
Hudson's Bay Company
Manitoba provincial government
Ontario provincial government
hasSpiritualTraditions ceremonies tied to seasonal cycles
land-based spirituality
hasTraditionalEconomy fur trade participation
hasTraditionalEnvironment muskeg (peat bog) landscape
hasTraditionalHousing log houses
tents
hasTraditionalMobility seasonal movement between coast and inland
hasTraditionalSubsistence fishing
gathering wild plants
hunting
trapping
hasTraditionalTechnology canoes
snowshoes
toboggans
locatedIn western Hudson Bay lowlands
western James Bay lowlands
linked to: James Bay Lowlands
locatedInCountry Canada
locatedInRegion Nunavut (southern coastal areas)
linked to: Nunavut

northern Manitoba
linked to: Northern Manitoba

northern Ontario
linked to: Northern Ontario
relatedEthnicGroup Inuit (neighboring peoples)
linked to: Inuit

Mushkegowuk Cree
Plains Cree
Woodland Cree
linked to: Woods Cree
speaksLanguage Cree language
Swampy Cree
usesAutonym Omushkego
Omushkegowak

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Moose Cree selfIdentification Omushkego