The Wendat

The Wendat

By: Carla, Steven, and Brooke.

GOAL!

The Wendat are amazing people and we wish for them to live on for ever!

Thank you...

http://www.wyandotte-nation.org/culture/history/general-history/wendat-huron-history/

http://www.saintemarieamongthehurons.on.ca/sm/en/HistoricalInformation/TheLifeoftheWendat/index.htm

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/huron/

By the way this is our bibliography!

People of the clan believe

to be decedent from a common

mythical ancestor the Bear, Deer,

Turtle, Beaver, Wolf,

Loon, Hawk or Fox

Carla

Family life part 2

-Steven

Moving From Place To Place

brooke

After the dispersal of the Huron by the Iroquois in 1650, one group relocated to Lorette, which is just north of Quebec, where it has remained ever since. The remaining Huron (merged with Tionontati, and Wenro) spent the next 50 years wandering as refugees through Minnesota, Wisconsin, and upper Michigan. By 1701 they had moved to the Ohio Valley (between Detroit and Cleveland) where they were known as the Wyandot. They stayed there until they were removed to Kansas during the 1840s.Only one group of the Wyandot managed to remain in the Great Lakes, when a small band of the Canadian Wyandot in southwest Ontario was given a reserve in near Amherstburg, which is now Quebec, Canada,

-Steven

Politics

The Wendat wasn't a tribe but a confederacy of four Iroquoian speaking nations and population in 1600 was 20000 to 25000. But in 1634 to 1642, it was wiped to 9000 by epidemics of the flu, smallpox, and measles.

Was everything perfect?

-Steven

After the epidemics ended all great Lakes had suffered greatly, Iroquoian and Algonquian groups saw the population reduce to half. Algonquins were suffering starvation. The Wendat decided to keep alliance with the the french

Carla

Environment And Transportation

The Huron-Wendat lived in the north and west areas of Lake Simcoe, and the south and east of Georgian Bay. Around 70 percent of this area could have been used for farming. The area was also good for fishing and hunting. In Wendrake, around 330km of trails linked the 4 tribes of the Wendat Nation. Since there were many rivers, birch bark canoes were used to travel long distances. During the winter, the Wendat used snowshoes, tobaggans, and sleighs.

Carla

Clothing

The clothing of the Wendat were made from deer and beaver hides. Men wore loincloths and moccasins. In winter, they also wore leggings and sleeves and a cloak made of fur. Women dressed the same way, wearing a skirt instead of the loincloth. The Wendat wore body paint and beads, and red was a preferred colour. They also used porcupine quills and feathers for decoration. Women wore bone combs in their hair. Wampum, which are traditional beads, made of shells, bones, and glass was another popular decoration. The men wore fire pouches on their backs in which they kept tobacco pipes, charms and other personal belongings. Pipes were valued a lot, and the Huron Wendat never spoke of business or came to a meeting without first smoking one.

The Wendat Nation is divided into four main groups:

Carla

• The Bear Tribe (Attignawantan), which was the largest tribe
• The Cord Tribe (Attigneenongnahac) which, like The Bear Tribe, were one of the oldest tribes
• The Rock Tribe (Arendarhonon)
• The Deer Tribe (Tahontaenrat), was the last tribe to enter the

The People of the Bog (Ataronchrono) were not recognized as a tribe, but they were represented by the People of the Bear Tribe.

Carla

Family Life

The average longhouse lodged 6 families. Each family was made up of a woman, her daughters or sisters, and their husbands and kids. In the longhouse, the women had control on the male leaders. They also had many responsibilities. Farming was the most important of their labours. The men, on the other hand, wanted to be seen as great warriors, hunters, fishermen, and clever traders. They also tried to earn reputations for generosity, good advice and good speech making. When a woman became pregnant, it was normal for each man she had lived with to claim the child as his. The choice was up to the mother. Newborn babies were named after they had their ears pierced. A child was breast-fed up to the age of two or three years. Older babies were also fed soups and chewed meats. Children were loved and taken care of by everyone.

Iroquoian/Wendat

The earliest written accounts of the Iroquoian were made by the French. The French began exploring North America in the 16th century. News of the Europeans reached the Iroquoian, especially when Samuel de Champlain explored the Saint Lawrence River in the early 17th century. Some Iroquoian decided to go and meet the Europeans. Atironta, the principal headman of the Arendarhonon tribe, went to Quebec and made an alliance with the French in 1609.In the early 17th century, these Iroquoian people called themselves the Wendat, which means "Islanders" or "Dwellers of the Peninsula".

They lived in 18 to 25 villages. Their subsistence economy was corn, beans, squash, and fish and hunting was not necessary except in the winter and it occurred far from the village. But during the 19th century, French came causing their population to drop to 23 people per 12 km.

What about size?

-Steven

Heritage was traced on the female side of the family.

And alliance with the Petun, Neutral, Ottawa, Nippissing, Algonquin nations of Georgian bay and the Ottawa valley. Houses up to 90 m in length.

Heritage

-Steven

Introduction

Brooke

The Wendat are also called Wyandot, Huron, or Iroquoian. They tradionally speak Wyandot language which is an Iroquoian language. Early French explorers reference to these natives as the Huron. Either from the French Huron ("ruffian", "rustic"), or from Hure ("boar's head"). Closely related to the people of the Huron were the Tionontate, or the Tobacco people, because for their cultivation of that crop. Today the Wendat have a reserve in Quebec, Canada. They also have three major settlements in the United States. Two of them are independently governed, and federally recognized tribes. Due to differing development of the groups, they speak distinct forms of Wendat and Wyandot languages.

Brooke