Native American and French Settlement Patterns - Northern ...

who lived between the Huron and Five Nations
Iroquois and who remained neutral in the
hostilities between them. Their villages
were mostly in Ontario between the Grand and
Niagara rivers until their dispersal in 1652.
The Wenro were located to the east of the
Neutrals and by 1638 some 600 refugees,
mostly women and children, survivors of
Iroquois expansion had moved to Huronia.[12]
Prior to the epidemics of the 1630s the
Huron population, including the Tionontati as
there are no separate population estimates
for them, has been estimated between 18,000
to 22,000.[13] By 1640 the reduced population
of Neutrals is estimated at 12,000.[14]
Huron Life Style. - The Hurons and their
neighbors were agriculturalists who also
fished and hunted. The longhouse was the
physical expression of the extended family.
The village was defined as a cluster of