FDI - Tionontati

The Tionontati were a sedentary hunter/farmer nation known for Tobacco farming. The Tionontati were nearly destroyed by their relatives, the Iroquois. Numerous relocations followed for the survivors. During and subsequent to the Beaver Wars with the Iroquois, surviving Huron, Neutrals, Erie, Wenro, and Tionontati confederated into the Wyandot.

Aboriginal Locations (Subdivisions)

ON Ehouae, Ekarenniondi, Etarita, St. Andre, St. Barthelemy, St. Jacques et St. Philippe, St. Simon et St. Jude, St. Thomas

Year	*History*
1610	Had been at war with the Huron
1616	Met Samuel de Champlain, were hostile to first missionaries
1630	Began crossing into Michigan to hunt
1640	Jesuit mission established among tribe; Beaver Wars began with Iroquois
1649	Attignawantan Huron took refuge in the Tionontati villages after being defeated by the Iroquois; the Iroquois soon attacked the tionontati with the main village at Etarita being destroyed, its mission (St. Jean) burned, and two Jesuits, Father Charles Garnier and Father Noel Chabanel, tortured to death, approximately 1,000 Tionontati and Huron, mostly Tionontati, managed to escape to the north by canoe
1651	The Iroquois followed and attacked the Huron and Tionontati at Mackinac Island and the two tribes removed to an island in Green Bay
1652	Confederated Huron and Tionontati soon became known as Wyandot

Year	Total Population	ON	Source
1600	8,000	8,000	Mooney estimate
1700	0		NAHDB calculation
1800	0		NAHDB calculation
1900	0		NAHDB calculation
2000	0		NAHDB calculation

*Ethnie:*	TIONONTATI (TOBACCO NATION, PETUN)
*Language:*	Huron
*Family:*	Northern Iroquoian
*Stock:*	Iroquoian
*Phylum:*	Macro-Siouan
*Macro-Culture:*	Eastern Woodlands