Muskiki Lake, Saskatchewan
Muskiki is a word of Cree origin ("maskihkîy") meaning ''medicine'', and may refer to: *Muskiki Formation, a stratigraphical unit of Late Cretaceous age in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin *Muskiki River, a tributary of the Nottaway River in Nord-du-Québec, Canada *Muskiki Springs, Saskatchewan, a community in Saskatchewan, Canada *Muskiki Creek (and Muskiki Lake), a tributary of the Cardinal River Cardinal River is a short river in western Alberta, Canada. It flows from the Canadian Rockies, and empties into the Brazeau River, itself a major tributary of the North Saskatchewan River. At its origin, just east of Jasper National Park, the Ca ...

Cree Language
Cree (also known as Cree– Montagnais–Naskapi) is a dialect continuum of Algonquian languages spoken by approximately 117,000 people across Canada, from the Northwest Territories to Alberta to Labrador. If considered one language, it is the aboriginal language with the highest number of speakers in Canada. The only region where Cree has any official status is in the Northwest Territories, alongside eight other aboriginal languages. There, Cree is spoken mainly in Fort Smith and Hay River. Names Endonyms are: * (Plains Cree) * (Woods Cree) * (Western Swampy Cree) * (Eastern Swampy Cree) * (Moose Cree) * (Southern East Cree) * (Northern East Cree) * (Atikamekw) * (Western Montagnais, Piyekwâkamî dialect) * (Western Montagnais, Betsiamites dialect) * (Eastern Montagnais) Origin and diffusion Cree is believed to have begun as a dialect of the Proto-Algonquian language spoken between 2,500 and 3,000 years ago in the original Algonquian homeland, an u ...
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Muskiki Formation
The Muskiki Formation is a stratigraphical unit of Late Cretaceous age in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. The formation is named after Muskiki Lake and Muskiki Creek, a tributary of the Cardinal River, and was first described in an outcrop along the Thistle Creek, north of Muskiki Lake, in the Bighorn Range, by D.F. Stott in 1963. The name is of Cree origin ("maskihkîy"), meaning ''medicine''. Lithology The Muskiki Formation is composed of shale with pebbly mudstone. Poorly sorted sandstone and concretionary beds also occur. In the western areal it becomes more silty. Distribution The Muskiki Formation is thick at its type locality at Thistle Creek. It thins out towards the south and east. It occurs in the Canadian Rockies foothills from the Highwood River in the south to the Berland River, north of the Athabasca River and into north-eastern British Columbia. Relationship to other units The Muskiki Formationis is part of the Smoky Group. It is conformably underlain by ...
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Muskiki River
The Muskiki River is a tributary of the Nottaway River (via Lake Soscumica, in the administrative region of Nord-du-Québec, in the Canadian province of Quebec, at Canada. Forestry is the main economic activity of the sector. Recreational tourism (especially hunting and fishing) comes second, thanks to the navigable water of Lake Soscumica, including the tributaries. The hydrographic slope of Soscumica Lake can be reached via the James Bay Highway (North-South direction), passing eastward to . The west side of the lake is served by a winter road (North-South direction). The surface of the river is usually frozen from early November to mid-May, however, safe ice circulation is generally from mid-November to mid-April. Geography The main neighboring hydrographic slopes are: *North side: Soscumica Lake, Nottaway River; *East side: Lake Ouescapis, Poncheville River, Lake Chensagi; *South side: Matagami Lake, Nottaway River, Waswanipi River; *West side: Soscumica Lake, Nottaway Ri ...
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Muskiki Springs, Saskatchewan
Muskiki Springs was a community in Saskatchewan, Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot .... References Bayne No. 371, Saskatchewan Unincorporated communities in Saskatchewan Division No. 15, Saskatchewan {{SKDivision15-geo-stub ...
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