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First non-Native American contact with Henry Hudson.
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The Plains Cree Tribe were trading with the colonist and the Hudson Bay Company. They traded at a post by the Albany rive, Moose river, and Nelson river.
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Now in the prairies, they became less dependent on the trading post. They over throw the Assinboin and take their land. The Cree and Assiniboin become enemies.
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Start to trade with the Blackfeet tribe in 1790. This ended in 1810.
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In the late 1800s, missionaries converted many of the Cree's to Christianity. The Cree also traded with both the English and French.
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War started between the Blackfeet, Cheyenne, Cree, Crow, Dakota, Flathead, and Nez Perce tribes in 1840.
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By 1860, there is a population of about 12,500.
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By 1881, the buffalo are gone and the Cree are undergoing starvation.
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Population in the Cree Tribe is down to about 6,807
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The Cree are put into the Rocky Boy's Reservation in Montana with the Chippewa tribe.
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Through the years 1920-1940 many of the people die from bronchitis, the flu, tuberculosis, and the whooping cough.
