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Examples

  • Khionontateronnon Tobacco in English, Petun in French

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • Khionontateronnon Tobacco in English, Petun in French

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • He visited the western Algonquin, and persuaded the Huron to take him to the Petun or Tobacco nation.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • He visited the western Algonquin, and persuaded the Huron to take him to the Petun or Tobacco nation.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • That's a matter for Petun, and those who put their trust in _him_ are usually sorry, I can promise that.

    Enchantment Card, Orson Scott 1999

  • That's a matter for Petun, and those who put their trust in _him_ are usually sorry, I can promise that.

    Enchantment Card, Orson Scott 1999

  • But what is wholly new is the systematic reconstruction of the maps of Huronia proper and of a small portion of the Petun country, an achievement which may be further perfected but which, as it stands, imparts new interest to Sagard's works and the Jesuit Relations, the only contemporaneous chronicles of these tribes from the first decades to the middle of the seventeenth century.

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

  • In it there is a statement for which he is responsible, to the effect that in the country of the Hurons the population was reckoned at more than eighty thousand souls, including the Neutral and Petun nations.

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

  • Migrations in the West of the Petun, or Tobacco, nation

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

  • The villages of the Petun, or Tobacco, Nation were scattered over the Counties of Grey and

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

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