Who Made the Huron tribe dissipear and how?
The tribe known to white people as “Hurons” (French for “bristle-haired” – their correct name is Wendat) numbered some 32 villages and about 12,000 adults when the Jesuits made a count in the early 17th century. This would give a total population of over 18,000. After constant warfare over the next 50 years with the much larger group of tribes known to us as Iroquois, the remnants were scattered widely to live with other tribes. Most of the Huron villages were destroyed by the Iroquois in 1649 in order to remove any competitors for the lucrative fur trade. There are today only a few hundred mixed-blood Hurons left in Canada and Oklahoma – so Hurons are not exactly extinct, more accurately absorbed into other groups (as was the case with many of the Eastern tribes).
