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cross the Detroit river and push their way into the peninsula between 

 Lakes Huron, Erie and Ontario. A band now known as the Huron 

 established themselves near and southward of Lake Simcoe. An 

 allied tribe, the Attiwandaronk or Neuter, possessed the region 

 south and east of them, taking the Grand River country and pushing 

 eastward across the Niagara. Still other bands pushed over the 

 northern shores of Lakes Erie and Ontario and fought their way t< 

 the mouth of the St Lawrence. 



Powerful bands established themselves about the St Lawrence, 

 with the site of Montreal as a center. They were the Mohawk- 

 Onondaga, though the Onondaga soon pushed southward to the hilly 

 region east of the foot of Lake Ontario, in the present Jefferson 

 county. 



Certain bands continued on the south shores of the lakes and 

 pushed their way eastward. One division, the Erie, claimed nearly 

 the entire southern shore of Lake Erie while the Seneca, pushing 

 eastward laid hold of the country from the Genesee river to 

 Canandaigua lake. 



The Conestoga or Andaste took northern Pennsylvania, especially 

 the region embraced by the two branches of the Susquehanna, 

 including the Chemung river and southward, perhaps as far as 

 Harrisburg. From thence to the headwaters of the Chesapeake 

 the Susquehannock claimed dominion. Still southward but east of 

 the Cherokee pushed the Tuscarora and it is possible that bands of 

 them earlier lived there. 



There was constant intercourse between the various tribes who 

 were well aware of the seats of one another. Often the various 

 bands, were at war and often there were loose alliances, as of the 

 Tuscarora with the northern Iroquois. The Cherokee and Iroquois, 

 especially the Seneca, were constantly at war. To the north the 

 chief enemies of the Iroquois were the Adirondack, who later allied 

 themselves with the Huron. 



The Huron-Iroquois pushed the eastern Algonkin to a narrow 

 strip along the coast and so separated them from their western 

 kinsmen that they exercised a dominant influence over their material 

 culture and to some extent their social organization. The Delaware, 

 who were closely associated with the Iroquois, were always more or 

 less friendly with them, and indeed in the historic period at least 

 acknowledged the supreme authority of the confederated Iroquois 

 over them. 



