Hurons

It is a strange menagerie that I rule over here, and the Hurons are the foxes, -- when they are not trying to be lions.

Montlivet Alice Prescott Smith

Champlain called the Hurons, Attigouantans, though their true name was

Canada J. G. Bourinot

The second conclusion tends to confirm Father de Brébeuf's judgment, previously cited, that, while still retaining, as they did, a knowledge of God, however imperfect, the Hurons were the victims of all kinds of superstitions and delusions, which tinged the most serious as well as the most indifferent acts of their everyday life.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

Of their present condition the agent in charge reports (1908): The special industry of the Hurons, that is to say, the making of snow-shoes and moccasins, during the first part of the twelve months just past was not flourishing.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

When the Hurons were the weaker party, they were attacked and either massacred on the spot, or reserved for torture at the stake; and when they were the stronger, the wily Iroquois hung upon their trail and cut off every straggler.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

French dared not go, and the land of the Hurons was a devastated wilderness.

Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom 1903

Neutral country, now the richest and most populous part of Ontario, boasting such cities as Hamilton and Brantford and London, was rich in fur-bearing animals and tobacco; and the Hurons were the middlemen in trade between the

The Jesuit Missions : A chronicle of the cross in the wilderness Thomas Guthrie Marquis 1900

So possessed was I by absolute faith in Sir William Johnson's strain, called Hurons, that I listened approvingly to Sir Peter's plans for a dashing recoup.

The Reckoning 1899

Pottawattamies, led by an Ottawa chief named Saguina; on which the behavior of the dangerous visitors became so threatening that Dubuisson hastily sent a canoe to recall the Hurons and Ottawas from their hunting-grounds, and a second to invite the friendly Ojibwas and

A Half Century of Conflict - Volume I France and England in North America Francis Parkman 1858

This, says Laverdière, is what Champlain first called the Hurons, from the name of Ochateguin, one of their chiefs.

Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 02 Samuel de Champlain 1601