Beardy's and Okemasis' Cree Nation 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 ...

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Beardy's & Okemasis' 96 & 97 Beardy's 97 and Okemasis 96 is an Indian reserve of the Beardy's and Okemasis' Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. It is 58 kilometres southwest of Prince Albert. In the 2016 Canadian Census The 2016 Canadian census was an enumeration of Canadian res ...

* Beardy's & Okemasis' 96 & 97A * Beardy's & Okemasis' 96 & 97B * Beardy's & Okemasis' 96 & 97C

History & Etymology

The nation is named for Willow Cree Chiefs Beardy (''kâmiyescawesit (Kah-mis-cho-wey-sit)'', "one who has a little beard") and Okemasis (''okimâsis'', "little chief", diminutive of ''okimâw''). Together, they led two-thirds of the Willow Cree band and settled west of Duck Lake prior to the signing of

Treaty 6 Treaty 6 is the sixth of the numbered treaties that were signed by the Canadian Crown and various First Nations between 1871 and 1877. It is one of a total of 11 numbered treaties signed between the Canadian Crown and First Nations. Specifica ...

in 1876. With adjoining reserves, the two bands have since merged into a single First Nation. The Cree name for this combined reserve is ᓃᐱᓰᐦᑯᐹᐏᔨᓃᓈᕽ ''nîpisîhkopâwiyinînâhk'', "among the Willow Cree".Wolvengrey, Arok, editor. Cree: Words. Regina, University of Regina Press, 2001
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One Arrow First Nation One Arrow First Nation ( cr, ᑳ ᐯᔭᒁᐢᑯᓇᒼ ''kâ-pêyakwâskonam'') is a Cree First Nations band government in Bellevue, Saskatchewan, Canada. Its main reserve is located just south of Batoche near the South Saskatchewan River about ...

. The Willow Cree are a sub-group of the Plains Cree tribe located today in the geographic regions of the Saskatchewan parklands, situated on the southern edge of the Boreal Forest and northern edge of the Great Plains, also situated between the North Saskatchewan and South Saskatchewan Rivers.

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* First Nations in Saskatchewan Cree governments {{FirstNations-stub