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border="0"><br><br><br> <center> <i>Iroquoian language family area</i><p> </center> <font size="+1"> In the early seventeenth century, the Hurons (or Wyandots), allied in origin and language to the Iroquois, dwelt in several large villages in a narrow district on the high ground between Lake Simcoe and Georgian Bay. The Hurons were divided into four tribes: the Bear (Attignaouantan), the Cord (Attingueenongnahak), the Rock (Ahrendarrhonon) and the Deer (Tahontaenrat). A few smaller Iroquoian communities, and at least one Algonkian community, united with them from time to time for protection against the Iroquois. The real name of the confederacy was Wendat ("Islanders" or "Dwellers on a Peninsula"), hence the name Wyandot, adopted by the descendants of the Hurons in Oklahoma, Michigan and Kansas. The Hurons built up a powerful trading enterprise in which they acted as middlemen between the northern tribes and the French. It was destroyed by the Iroquois in 1650. For their food supply, the Hurons depended principally on maize, with beans and pumpkins as subsidiary crops. 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