Wendat

Wendat

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      among North American Indians, a confederacy of four Iroquois-speaking bands of the Huron nation—the Rock, Bear, Cord, and Deer bands—together with a few smaller communities that joined them at different periods for protection against the Iroquois Confederacy. When first encountered by Europeans in 1615, the Wendat occupied a territory, sometimes called Huronia, around what are now Lake Simcoe and Georgian Bay, Ontario, Can. Some of the Wendat villages, consisting of large bark-covered dwellings housing several families each, were palisaded for protection. Villages were situated near fields where the Wendat grew corn (maize), the staple of their diet, which they supplemented with fish and, to a lesser extent, game.

      Weakened by diseases introduced by Europeans and unable to obtain as many firearms and ammunition as their enemies, the Wendat were destroyed by the Iroquois Confederacy in 1648–50, and the constituent tribes dispersed. The neighbouring Tionontati united with some Huron refugees and became known to the English as the Wyandot, a corrupted form of Wendat.

      In the early 21st century, population estimates indicated some 3,500 Wendat descendants.

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