Hurons

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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Hurons

a confederacy of Iroquoian-speaking Indian tribes. During the 16th century they lived in 18 large villages near Lake Simcoe and Lake Huron in what is now Canada. In the early 17th century they numbered approximately 30,000 people. Their occupations were hoe farming and hunting. In 1649–50 they were defeated by the Iroquois. Some of the Hurons became members of Iroquoian tribes, and some joined other tribes. A small group settled near the city of Quebec. The modern descendants of the Hurons now live on the Lorette Indian Reservation (1967 population. 968): they have been largely assimilated by the French Canadians and have lost their native language.

REFERENCE

Narody Ameriki. vol. 1. Moscow. 1959.

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He went to Huronia in 1645; he had not learned the Huron language but the Hurons admired him for what he had undergone.

Father Bressani returned to Quebec to get military help, but on his return (without any military help) he met Jesuits and three hundred Hurons leaving Huronia, and returned with them to Quebec.

He wrote a history of the Huron Mission, published in 1653.

Fr. Francis Bressani: an unknown Canadian Jesuit missionary

From where Sainte Marie Among The Hurons now stands on the shores of Georgian Bay, and all the way into Quebec, used to be Huron land.

This park that is the historical recreation of a 16th century Huron Indian village where several Jesuit missionaries were martyred, now has the potential of becoming a Canadian Disneyland?

Dreaming of Sainte Marie among the Huronland (Ontario goverment considering turning Sainte Marie Among the Hurons into a theme park)

The dissolution of that world within fifty years of the Huron's first contact with the French is presented in a vivid, sympathetic, and sophisticated manner.

Culturally the Iroqouis nations had much in common with the Huron, whom they vanquished in 1649.

The Huron

This CD also features a very rare recording of a Huron-Wendat singing the traditional Huron-Wendat classic Jesus Ahatonhia, more commonly known throughout the country as the Huron Carol.

When the Huron people dispersed, some fled to the United States; some joined neighbouring nations and some crossed to Christian Island, but were forced to leave again and travelled to the Quebec City region.