Amisk is a
Cree
The Cree ( cr, néhinaw, script=Latn, , etc.; french: link=no, Cri) are a Indigenous peoples of the Americas, North American Indigenous people. They live primarily in Canada, where they form one of the country's largest First Nations in Canada ...
word for beaver. Amisk may also refer to:
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Amisk Lake
Amisk (Beaver) Lake is a lake in east-central Saskatchewan (south-west of Flin Flon) in Canada. 'Amisk' means beaver in Cree. Saskatchewan Highway 167 provides road access. Denare Beach, the largest settlement, is located on the east side of ...
, an important lake in Saskatchewan on the main fur trade route
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Amisk Lake (Alberta)
Amisk Lake is a lake located in central Alberta about northeast of the City of Edmonton and east of the village of Boyle.
History
In the 1940s a Mink farm and resort with boat and cabin rentals were established on the northwest shore of the la ...
, a small lake in the Beaver River Basin
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Amisk River
Amisk River is a river in east-central Alberta located in the basin of the Beaver River. The Amisk River forms at Amisk Lake and travels in a south-east direction, flowing through the Buffalo Lake and Kikino Metis settlements before being bri ...
, a river flowing from this lake
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Amisk, Alberta
Amisk () is a village in east central Alberta, Canada.
The name comes from (), the Cree word for " beaver".
The site was surveyed by the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1906. That same year settlers from the United States, Scandinavia and Great B ...
, a village unrelated to the two lakes
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Amiskwi River
The Amiskwi River is a stream of about in length in British Columbia, Canada. It is a tributary of the Kicking Horse River. The name ''Amiskwi'' is a Cree word for ''Beavertail''.
Just as there is an Otterhead River and an Ottertail Rive ...
, a river in British Columbia (from the Cree word for Beavertail)
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Amiskwia
''Amiskwia'' is a genus of soft-bodied animals known from fossils of the Middle Cambrian Lagerstätten both in the Burgess Shale in British Columbia, Canada and the Maotianshan shales of Yunnan Province, China. It is interpreted as a member of th ...
, a fossil
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