They are said to be great rascals.

The great body of the Crees were at that time named Opimmitish Ininiwuc, or Men of the Woods.

It would, however, be an endless task to attempt to determine the precise people designated by the early French writers.

Every small band, naming itself from its hunting-grounds, was described as a different nation.

The Chippeways who frequented the Lake of the Woods were named from a particular act of pillage--Pilliers, or Robbers: and the name Saulteurs, applied to a principal band that frequented the Sault St.Marie, has been by degrees extended to the whole tribe.