Lecture 5- The Wendat

Question 1

Who are the Wendat?

Answer 1

Also known as the Huron. a powerful Indigenous confederacy located in what is now Southern Ontario. They were the largest and most powerful confederacy at contact.They are significant for their resilience and complex social structure

Question 2

Wendat society and culture

Answer 2

part of the larger Iroquoian cultural and linguistic group, sharing cultural traits with other Iroquoian nations
-lived in semi permenant villages with longhouses surrounded by palisades
- matrilineal
-traded goods such as corn, fur, and tobacco

Question 3

What was the Beaver wars

Answer 3

• also known as the French and Iroquois war
  -motivated over competition of the fur trade
  -Wendat-Haudensaunee rivalries