FDI - Neutrals

The Neutrals were a sedentary hunter/farmer nation. The ranged from southern Ontario to westernmost New York, northeastern Ohio and southeastern Michigan. The Neutrals were so names because of their neutrality in the wars between the Huron and the Iroquois Five Nations. The Five Nations, however, eventually turned on the Neutrals during the Beaver Wars. The Neutrals were eventually completely destroyed by the Five Nations which absorbed some of its survivors while other confederated into the Mingo.

Aboriginal Locations (% Apportionment)

MI 10%

NY 10%

OH 60%

ON 20%

Year	*History*
1626	Visited to Father Joseph D'Alyon (received cold reception and forced to leave)
1635	Gave refuge to an unidentified Iroquoian speaking tribe from the western end of Lake Erie; defeated the Aouenrehronon (Potawatomi [?])
1640	Visited by Frs. Jean de Breboeuf and Pierre Chaumonot Jean de Breboeuf and Pierre Chaumonot
1641	2,000 Neutrals overran a Mascouten [?] village in 10 day siege taking women and children 800 prisoners; men blinded and left to wander and die
1647	Seneca accused Neutrals of harboring Huron refugees
1648	Huron accepted some Huron refugees
1650	Attacked by western Iroquois; one group fled across the Great Lake to join Tionontati and Huron, another joined the Susquehannock
1652	A Neutrals and Susquehannock group defeated a Seneca war party
1653	800 Neutrals living near Detroit
1656	Neutrals reported living south of Lake Erie
1660	All independent Neutrals bands has disappeared, though made had fled to join the Erie
1674	Many members of Caughnawaga (Mohawk) were Neutrals
1680	Seneca village of Gandongarae said to be comprised entirely of Neutrals

*Ethnie:*	NEUTRALS (ATTIWANDERONS)
*Dialects (Speakers):*	Neutrals (0)
*Language:*	Huron
*Family:*	Northern Iroquoian
*Stock:*	Iroquoian
*Phylum:*	Macro-Siouan
*Macro-Culture:*	Eastern Woodlands

Year	Total Population	MI	NY	OH	ON	Source
1600	10,000	1,000	1,000	6,000	1,000	Hewitt estimate
1700	0					NAHDB calculation
1800	0					NAHDB calculation
1900	0					NAHDB calculation
2000	0					NAHDB calculation