What little is known about them has been derived from oral history of other Native American tribes, archaeology, and comparisons with other Iroquoian peoples.
The eastern woodland areas of what became Canada were home to the Algonquian and Iroquoian peoples.
These Iroquoian people had been a traditional and historic foe of the Confederacy.
In the early 17th century, this Iroquoian people called themselves the Wendat, an autonym which means "Dwellers of the Peninsula" or "Islanders".
Like other Iroquoian peoples, the Huron were farmers who supplemented their diet with hunting and fishing.
The remains may be of Iroquoian ancestry, since Iroquoian people inhabited the area before the Algonquin.
They were the ancestors of today's Algonquian and Iroquoian peoples.
The union created a powerful alliance of related Iroquoian peoples around the Great Lakes.
The Iroquoian people had been driven away from the southern shore of Lake Erie by the powerful Iroquois Five Nations in 1654.
The Oneidas, as an Iroquoian people, had a traditional territory that once covered a large section of the eastern part of North America.