By George T. Hunt
George T. Hunt’s vintage 1940 learn of the Iroquois in the course of the center and past due 17th century provides war due to depletion of ordinary assets within the Iroquois fatherland and tribal efforts to imagine the position of middlemen within the fur exchange among the Indians to the west and the Europeans.
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It is more than doubtful whether Hudson's Indians were Iroquois at all; William M. Beauchamp, an archeologist of considerable standing, has decided that they could not have been. It is his view that the enemies of the Mohawks held the river for twenty-five leagues on each side. Further evidence will be offered in support of his contention. 5 The second basis for the claim that the Iroquois were in power on the Hudson is a supposed treaty of 1618 in "the vale of Tawasentha" or Norman's Kill, a small stream flowing into the Hudson a few miles below the mouth of the Mohawk.
THE HURONS AND THEIR NEIGHBORS 43 sisted. 14 They numbered nine or ten villages, which, on the basis of the proportions of the closely consanguine Hurons, would mean a population of about fifteen thousand. Champlain commented upon their sedentary way of life, their great crops of maize, and their production of hemp for thread, from which they manufactured fishnets. 15 They also cultivated, besides tobacco, hemp, and maize, beans and sunflowers. l6 The Allumettes and Minor Ottawa River Tribes The early traveler to Huronia by way of the Ottawa or, as it was then called, Grand River, encountered several small tribes living on or near its banks before reaching the dangerous rapids of Allumette Island.
5, Boston, 1877), 146-147. See also Tonty, "Memoir," in Illinois Historical Collections, vol. I, pp. 151-152; Lahontan, New Voyages, 1:125-126. U Compare Dongan's claim of February, 1688, that "y. When the Ottawa did come, after 1700, they said that they had never been there before. Beauchamp, New York Iroquois, 173. 16 Wassenaer, in O'Callaghan, Documentary History of New York, 3 :43-44; also in Jameson, Narratives of New Netherland. , 13 1, and Brodhead, History of New York, 1:169-170. 18 It has been necessary to present this detailed criticism of the Trico deposition because historians persist in accepting it, notably Adriaan J.