Beaver Wars
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The Beaver Wars, also known as the Iroquois Wars or the French and Iroquois Wars, were a series of conflicts fought intermittently during the 17th century in North America throughout the Great Lakes r
Champlain's Battle with the Iroquois, Ticonderoga, July 1609, an 1898 illustration by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris
Haudenosaunee conquests during the Beaver Wars, overlaid over modern United States boundaries for reference.
Flintlock muskets acquired from Dutch traders allowed the Haudenosaunee to wage effective campaigns against neighboring nations
New France's governor Charles de Montmagny rejected peace with the Mohawks in 1641 because it would imply abandonment of their Wendat allies.
Wyandot people
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The Wyandot people are an Indigenous people who emerged in the Great Lakes region in the mid-17th century. The Wyandot developed through a process of ethnogenesis during the Beaver Wars, when refugees
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…Jesuits at Quebec, some assimilated and adopted by the Haudenosaunee, others joined the Petun or Tobacco nation, another Iroquoian people to become the Wyandot. The Ottawa tribe temporarily halted Iroquois expansion further northwest, but the Haudenosaunee controlled a fur-rich region and had no more tribes…
Wyandot moccasins, c. 1880, in the collection of the Bata Shoe Museum
William Walker (1800–1874), a leader of the Wyandot people and a prominent citizen of early-day Kansas.