Kondiaronk, known as Le Rat, was chief of the Native American Wendat people at Michilimackinac in New France, where they settled after war with the Iroquois in 1649, This is the area around the strait
Kondiaronk speaking to the captured Iroquois diplomats, 1688—as imagined in an illustration published in 1909.
The Petun, also known as the Tobacco people or Tionontati, were an indigenous Iroquoian people of the woodlands of eastern North America. Their traditional homeland was south of Lake Huron's Georgian
1914 illustration depicting the artist's concept of a Petun woman cultivating tobacco