426 THE LAST OF THE HURONS. [1650-1866. 



not on the island, but on the neighboring Point 

 St. Ignace, now Graham's Point, on the north side 

 of the strait. The greater part of them after- 

 wards removed thence to Detroit and Sandusky, 

 where they lived under the name of Wyandots 

 until within the present century, maintaining a 

 marked influence over the surrounding Algon- 

 quins. They bore an active part, on the side 

 of the French, in the war which ended in the 

 reduction of Canada ; and they were the most 

 formidable enemies of the English in the Indian 

 war under Pontiac.^ The government of the 

 United States at length removed them to reserves 

 on the western frontier, where a remnant of them 

 may still be found. Thus it appears that the AVy- 

 andots, whose name is so conspicuous in the history 

 of our border wars, are descendants of the ancient 

 Hurons, and chiefly of that portion of them called 

 the Tobacco Nation.^ 



When Ragueneau and his party left Isle St. 

 Joseph for Quebec, the greater number of the Hu- 

 rons chose to remain. They took possession of the 

 stone fort which the French had abandoned, and 

 where, with reasonable vigilance, they could main- 

 tain themselves against attack. In the succeeding 



1 See " History of the Conspiracy of Pontiac." 



2 The raigrations of this band of the Hurons may be traced by de- 

 tached passages and incidental remarks in the Relations of 1654, 1660, 

 1667, 1670, 1671, and 1672. Nicolas Perrot, in his chapter, Deffaitle et 

 Fiiitie des Hurons chassis de leur Pays, and in the chapter following, gives 

 a long and rather confused account of their movements and adventures. 

 See also La Poterie, Histoire de I'Amerique Septentrionale, II. 51-56. Ac- 

 cording to the Relation of 1670, the Hurons, when living at Shagwami- 

 gon Point, numbered about fifteen hundred souls. 



