The Western Cree (Pakisimotan Wi Iniwak) - The Canoe Cree 1650 - 1770It has often been said that the western Cree came into the west in the wake of the Fur Trade to exploit a position as middlemen. Actual history shows the Cree to have been here long before, and to have adapted their historic way of life to take advantage of the fur trade not for profit, but for novelty. This history looks at the 100 years for which this way of life lasted.