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over hunting grounds <strong>and</strong> the fur trade.<br />

Destruction of Huronia. - Beginning in<br />

1642, warfare was directed against the Huron<br />

villages in an attempt to obtain furs. At<br />

first the Iroquois only raided <strong>and</strong> plundered<br />

the Huron villages but soon they decided to<br />

disperse the Hurons so that they could raid<br />

the Indians to the north. In the years that<br />

followed the Huron villages were methodically<br />

destroyed by Iroquois warriors. Some Huron<br />

attempted to hold out on nearby isl<strong>and</strong>s, but<br />

fled due to starvation <strong>and</strong> sickness; others<br />

moved to be near <strong>French</strong> communities in the<br />

St. Lawrence Valley; some affiliated with<br />

other tribes even as adoptees among the<br />

Iroquois or fled to the west. By 1650 the<br />

Hurons had become emigres removed from their<br />

homel<strong>and</strong>.<br />

These Hurons or Wy<strong>and</strong>ots were known to<br />

the <strong>French</strong> after 1650 as Tionontati

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