Cardinal is one of the most common surnames among aboriginal people Indigenous peoples are any ethnic group who inhabit a geographic region with which they have the earliest known historical connection. Several widely accepted formulations, however, which define the term indigenous peoples in stricter terms, have been put forward by prominent and internationally recognized organizations, such as the United Nations, in Canada The land occupied by Canada was inhabited for millennia by various groups of Aboriginal peoples. Beginning in the late 15th century, British and French expeditions explored, and later settled, along the Atlantic coast. France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763 after the Seven Years' War. In 1867, with the union of three (primarily Cree The Cree is one of the largest groups of First Nations/Aboriginals in North America, located mainly across Canada. In the United States, this Algonquian-speaking people lived historically from Minnesota westward. Today they live mostly in Montana and Metis). It originated as a French name and came to New France New France was the area colonized by France in North America during a period extending from the exploration of the Saint Lawrence River, by Jacques Cartier in 1534, to the cession of New France to Spain and Britain in 1763. At its peak in 1712 (before the Treaty of Utrecht), the territory of New France extended from Newfoundland to the Rocky and was part of the North American fur trade by the 1680s. In the 1780s, a small group of Cardinals came from Quebec to what is now northern Alberta to work in the fur trade, they stayed and intermarried with the local native peoples and reproduced prolifically. As a result, thousands of Cree and Metis people from across Alberta and beyond can trace their decent to the Cardinals.[1]
Sports
- Arizona Cardinals The Arizona Cardinals are a professional American Football team based in Tempe, Arizona. They play their home games in Glendale, Arizona. The Cardinals are members of the Western Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League (NFL). The Cardinals were founded in 1898, and are the oldest continuously run professional, an American professional football team
- Ball State Cardinals, the athletic teams of Ball State University
- Cardenales de Lara, a Venezuelan baseball team
- CUA Cardinals, the athletic teams of the Catholic University of America
- Lamar Cardinals, the athletic teams of Lamar University Lamar University is a comprehensive university offering bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees; located in Beaumont, Texas, and a member of The Texas State University System. As of Spring 2009, the university had 13,485 students, the highest enrollment in the university’s 85-year history in Beaumont Beaumont is a city in and county seat of Jefferson County, Texas, United States, within the Beaumont–Port Arthur Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city's population was 113,866 at the 2000 census. With Port Arthur and Orange, it forms the Golden Triangle, a major industrial area on the Gulf Coast, Texas Houston is the largest city in Texas and the fourth-largest in the United States, while San Antonio is the second largest in the state and seventh largest in the United States. Dallas–Fort Worth and Greater Houston are the fourth and sixth largest United States metropolitan areas, respectively. Other major cities include El Paso and Austin—the USA ^ b. English is the de facto language of American government and the sole language spoken at home by 80% of Americans age five and older. Spanish is the second most commonly spoken language
- Louisville Cardinals, the athletic teams of University of Louisville
- Mapúa Cardinals, the athletic teams of Mapua Institute of Technology
- St. Louis Cardinals The St. Louis Cardinals are a professional baseball team based in St. Louis, Missouri. They are members of the Central Division in the National League of Major League Baseball. The Cardinals have won a National League record 10 World Series championships, second only to the New York Yankees in Major League Baseball, an American professional baseball team
- Stanford Cardinal Following its win over Cal in the first-ever Big Game in 1892, the color cardinal was picked as the primary color of Stanford's athletic teams. White was adopted as a secondary color in the 1940s, the athletic teams of Stanford University
Navigation and transport
- Cardinal (train)
- The Cardinal (railcar)
- Cardinal mark, a sea mark used in navigation
- Cardinal direction The four cardinal directions or cardinal points are north, south, east, and west, commonly denoted by their initials - N, S, E, W. They are mostly used for geographic orientation on Earth but may be calculated anywhere on a rotating astronomical body. North and south point toward the geographical poles defined by the axis of rotation, such that, the four primary directions N, S, E, and W
- Cessna 177 Cardinal, an aircraft
People
- Aurèle Cardinal, Canadian architect
- Brian Cardinal, American basketball player
- Douglas Cardinal (born 1934), Canadian architect
- Gil Cardinal, Metis-Canada architect
- Harold Cardinal (1945-2005), Cree writer and political leader
- Jean-Guy Cardinal, Quebecois politician
- Joseph-Narcisse Cardinal, Lower Canadian politician and rebel
- Judah ben Isaac Cardinal (13th c.), Arabic-Hebrew translator
- Lorne Cardinal, Canadian actor
- Martin Cardinal, Canadian police officer and subject of controversy
- Mark Cardinal, Canadian rugby player
- Mike Cardinal, Canadian politician
- Tantoo Cardinal, Canadian actress
- Kardinal Offishall, Canadian rapper/producer
Other uses
- Cardinal (color) Cardinal is a vivid red, which gets its name from the cassocks worn by cardinals. The family of birds takes its name from the color, a vivid red
- Cardinal (Church of England)
- Cardinal (grape)
- Cardinal (album), a 1994 album by indie pop duo, Cardinal
- Cardinal, Ontario, Canada
- The Cardinals, a 1950s R&B group
- The Cardinals (rock band), a group formed in 2003
- Cardinal Brewery
- Cardinal butterfly
- Cardinal Health Cardinal Health, Inc., is a health care services company based in Dublin, Ohio. It is currently ranked 18th on the Fortune 500. Cardinal health specializes in health care supply chain services, providing pharmaceuticals and medical products to more than 40,000 locations each day. The company is also a manufacturer of medical and surgical products,, a health care services company
- Cardinal High School
- Cardinal number In mathematics, cardinal numbers, or cardinals for short, are a generalization of the natural numbers used to measure the cardinality of sets. The cardinality of a finite set is a natural number – the number of elements in the set. The transfinite cardinal numbers describe the sizes of infinite sets, a concept in mathematics
- Cardinal vowel Cardinal vowels are a set of reference vowels used by phoneticians in describing the sounds of languages. For instance, the vowel of the English word "feet" can be described with reference to cardinal vowel 1, [i], which is the cardinal vowel closest to it, a concept in phonetics
- C/2008 T2 (Cardinal), a comet
See also
References
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