Electronic editions of classic Cree resources: classic dictionaries, grammars and text collections that formed the foundation of the scholarly understanding of Plains Cree.
Bloomfield, Leonard. 1930, 1934.
- Sacred Stories of the Sweet Grass Cree. F.A. Acland, Ottawa.
http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/5409.html - Plains Cree Texts. American Ethnological Society Publications 16. New York
https://creeliteracy.org/2016/01/07/bloomfield-plains-cree-texts-online/
Howse, Joseph. 1844.
- A grammar of the Cree language: with which is combined an analysis of the Chippeway dialect. Rivington, London.
http://archive.org/stream/agrammarcreelan00howsgoog#page/n10/mode/2up
Lacombe, Albert. 1874.
- Dictionnaire de la langue des Cris. Beauchemin & Valois. Montréal.
http://archive.org/stream/dictionnairedela01laco#page/n7/mode/2up
- Grammaire de la langue des Cris. Beauchemin & Valois. Montréal.
http://archive.org/stream/cihm_30288#page/n5/mode/2up
Watkins, E.A., 1865.
- A dictionary of the Cree language as spoken by the Indians of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s Territories. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. London.
http://archive.org/stream/adictionarycree00watkgoog#page/n3/mode/2up
Wolfart, H. Christoph. 1973.
- Plains Cree: a grammatical study. American Philosophical Society Transactions n.s. 63, pt. 5. Philadelphia.
https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~rfburger/language/wolfart_-_plains_cree_1973.pdf - Explore many more early dictionaries, word lists and grammars of a variety of Cree languages and dialects at:
http://www.massinahigan.ca/dictionaries.html
Archive of the Papers of the Algonquian Conference, Carleton University.
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