DCHP-3

Cree symbols

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a syllabary devised by the Reverend James Evans, a Wesleyan missionary, for the Crees (about 1840) and adapted to Eskimo toward the end of the nineteenth century.

Quotations

1913
This was, indeed, a message from Peter Rainy, and written in the only language the old Indian could use--the Cree symbols into which the Bible had been translated by the zealous missionary, James Evans, back in the [eighteen-] fifties.
1961
Indians used Petitsikapau as a crossroads post exchange where messages could be left in Cree symbols on the blazed bole of a tree.