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history of the Dominion. They fought with the Sioux southwest 
of lake Superior, participated in the wars against the Iroquois, and 
supported the French in their struggle against the English. The 
Ottawa were close friends of the Hurons, from whom they learned 
to cultivate maize; and their jiroximity to the Ottawa river gave 
them control of the main route to the lower St. Lawrence and the 
trading-posts of the early colonists, for the upper St. Lawrence was 
blocked by the hostile Iroquois. After destroying the Hurons, there- 
fore, the Iroquois turned their arms against the Ottawa and drove 
them from Georgian bay. Some fled west towards lake Superior; 
others took refuge with their Potawatomi kinsmen in the Lhiited 
States. Llalf a century later many of these refugees returned to 
Manitoulin island and the north shore of lake Huron, where their 
descendants still survive. 
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Ojibwa Indian woinon in a birch-bark canoe. (Photo by F. IT. Wauyh.) 
About the beginning of the eighteenth century, when the 
strength of the Iroquois commenced to wane and a portion of the 
Ottawa were moving back into Canada, the main body of the Ojibwa 
suddenly entered on a career of expansion provoked by the diminution 
of the beaver within their domains. Many Missisaiiga moved into 
the old territory of the Llurons between lakes Huron and Erie, 
