Kondiaronk
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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 Haudenosaunee in 1649, This is the area around the s
Kondiaronk speaking to the captured Haudenosaunee diplomats, 1688—as imagined in an illustration published in 1909.
Great Peace of Montreal
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The Great Peace of Montreal was a peace treaty between New France and 39 First Nations of North America that ended the Beaver Wars. It was signed on August 4, 1701, by Louis-Hector de Callière, govern
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…he had secured the position of the Wendat, he favored a general peace settlement and managed to persuade all sides. This effort concluded in the 1701 Great Peace of Montreal between France, the Haudenosaunee, and the other Indian tribes of the Upper Great Lakes. This ended the Beaver Wars and helped open up the interior of…
Copy of the treaty including signatures