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ling with what remains of the Tobacco Nation and of the Neu- 

 tral Nation at A'otonatendie, three days' journey above the Sault 

 Skia'e toward the south. Those of the Tobacco Nation have 

 wintered at Tea,onto'rai, the neutrals to the number of 800 at 

 Sken'chio.e (1) toward Te,o'chanontian; these two nations are 

 to betake themselves next autumn to A'otonatendiia where even 

 now they number a thousand men". Whether this league was 

 productive of results no one can say. It is certain that after 

 1653 the Neutral Nation ceased to exist as a nation. That 

 mairy had been killed in battle there can be no doubt. That 

 many died in the fires of the Iroquois, who, knowing of the 

 Iroquois can doubt ? Many were adopted into the Seneca nation; 

 and twenty years afterward, in 1669, Father Fremin (2) found 

 in the Seneca villages, Neuter captives who had become Chris- 

 tians. Some were scattered amongst the other Iroquois. Father 

 Fejeune preached to a congregation of them in a village of the 

 Onondagas, (3). During the war a large number abandoned 

 their homes and fled before the Iroquois. Some of these joined 

 the Huron fugitives on the St. Fawrence, where they became 

 Christians, (4). Others fled northward and joined their kindred 

 the Tionontate refugees at Mackinac. 



The Wenrohronons. (5) 



During the early years of the 17th century, and for some 

 time during the 16th century, the eastern portion of the Niagara 

 Frontier was the seat of the Wenro Nation or Wenrohronons. 

 Their occupancy of the Frontier during historic times was brief 

 and no record remains of their life there. 



The Wenrohronons are first definitely mentioned by the 

 Jesuit missionary, Father Brebeuf. In a letter which he wrote 

 in 1635 from the Huron town of Ihontiria, he expresses his 



i. Sault Skia'e is Sault St. Marie. 



Skenchio'e tuati Pointe appears on a map of 1777 by le Chevr de 

 Beaurain, on the west shore of L. Huron, in Michigan. This map is in the 

 Marshall Collection at Buffalo Historical Society's library. 



2. Jes. Rel. Vol. 57, P. 191, Burrows ed. 



3. Jes. Rel., 1656-58, Vol. 44, P. 41, Burrows ed. 



4. Registre des Baptemes de Paroisse de Ville Marie 1659-51. Quoted 

 by the Very Rev. Wm. R. Harris in "History of the Early Missions in 

 Western Canada". 



5. Ahouenrochrhonons, Ahouenrochronons, Awenrherhonons, Oenron- 

 ronnons, Ouenro nation, Weanohronons, Wenrohronons, Wenroronons. 



