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Cree shoe
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a type of snowshoe used by the Cree Indians. See quote. See picture at snowshoe.
See: snowshoe ((n.))
Quotations
1963
Since the Crees, in their country, had no white ash that could be bent easily, they used the more brittle yellow birch--thus producing the long, tapered Cree shoe, which is still made in two pieces.