Dialects of Swampy Cree
A division is sometimes made between West Swampy Cree and East Swampy Cree.
Communities recognized as West Swampy Cree include: Shoal Lake; The Pas; Easterville ; Grand Rapids Barren Lands; Churchill; Split Lake; York Factory; Fox Lake; Shamattawa, and God's lake Narrows,. (all in Manitoba); and Fort Severn, Ontario.
Communities recognized as East Swampy Cree are: Weenusk, Ontario; Attawapiskat, Ontario; Albany Post, Ontario; and Kashechewan, Ontario; and Fort Albany, Ontario. The Cree spoken at Kashechewan also shows Moose Cree influence.
This page reflects the forms found in Albany Post (now Kashechewan) Ontario.
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Famous quotes containing the word swampy:
“These boys who love their mother
who loves men, who passes on
her sons to other women;
The cloud across the sky. The windy pines.
the trickle gurgle in the swampy meadow
this is our body.”
—Gary Snyder (b. 1930)