Wendake is the current name for two
urban reserves, Wendake 7
() and Wendake 7A,
() of the
Huron-Wendat Nation in the
Canadian province
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of
Quebec. They are enclaves entirely surrounded by the
La Haute-Saint-Charles borough of
Quebec City, within the former city of
Loretteville
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. One of the
Seven Nations of Canada, the settlement was formerly known as ''Village-des-Hurons'' ("Huron Village"), and also as ''(Jeune)-Lorette'' ("New Lorette").
Since the late 20th century, archeologists have found large 16th-century villages of the Wendat (Huron) in the northern
Lake Ontario region, which is where they believe the people coalesced as a distinct group. Later they migrated south and by the early 17th century had settled in their historical territory of Wendake in the
Georgian Bay region. The Wyandot Confederation was made up of loosely associated tribes who spoke a mutually intelligible
Iroquoian language.
History
Archeologists have excavated 16th-century settlements north of Lake Ontario at the
Mantle Site
The "Jean-Baptiste Lainé" or Mantle Site in the town of Whitchurch–Stouffville, north-east of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is the largest and most complex ancestral Wendat-Huron village to be excavated to date in the Lower Great Lakes region. Th ...
(2005),
Aurora Site
The Aurora Site, also known as the "Old Fort", "Old Indian Fort", "Murphy Farm" or "Hill Fort" site, is a sixteenth-century Huron-Wendat ancestral village located on one of the headwater tributaries of the East Holland River on the north side of ...
and
Ratcliff Site
The Ratcliff or Baker Hill Site is a 16th-century Huron-Wendat ancestral village located on one of the headwater tributaries of the Rouge River on the south side of the Oak Ridges Moraine in present-day Whitchurch–Stouffville, approximately 2 ...
in
Whitchurch-Stouffville, Ontario, all attesting to distinctly Wendat (Huron) occupancy. They have concluded the people coalesced in this area as a distinct group. Later they migrated to the
Georgian Bay area, where they encountered Europeans in the 17th century.
Until the middle of the 17th century, the Wendake ancestors occupied a vast territory straddling part of what is now the United States (from
Detroit to south-eastern
Ontario (
Penetanguishene and
Midland
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) and
Quebec. They hunted and trapped throughout this territory (mainly in the
Laurentian Mountains, between the central section of the
Saint-Maurice and the
Saguenay rivers).
Between 1634 and 1650, the Wyandot Confederation was dismembered; its families, having been gathered into four or five
tribes, were dispersed. It is estimated that the Huron population totalled approximately 20,000 to 30,000 people in 1634. By 1650, only a few hundred individuals remained. Most had been decimated by
infectious disease
epidemics, to which they had no natural
immunity
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; survivors were attacked by wars, especially by the
Iroquois Confederacy
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, who pushed from the south (present-day New York) trying to control hunting grounds and the
fur trade
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.
Part of the Huron population had also been integrated into the Iroquois Confederation. The survivors of this tragic period divided into two groups in Canada: the Great-Lake Wyandot and the Huron-Wendat. The latter were the ancestors of the Huron-Wendat of Wendake. This marked the beginning of a period of exile for the 300 or so Wendat who remained, an era during which they would occupy as many as six different sites in the province of Quebec. They finally settled for good in the village of Lorette in 1697. First established on
Île d'Orléans in 1651, the community moved to Quebec City in 1668. Subsequently, the Wendat temporarily resided in
Beauport, Notre Dame de Foy,
L'Ancienne-Lorette
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and then
New Lorette in 1673.
As of the
2016 Canadian census
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the population of the two reserves was 2,135 people and the
Huron-Wendat Nation has a total of 4,314 registered members, most of which live off reserve.
Wendake 7 occupies an area of
[ and Wendake 7A ][ for a total of .
As of 2021, the Grand Chief is ]Rémy Vincent
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and previous chiefs include Konrad Sioui Konrad Sioui (born in 1953) was the Grand Chief (french: Grand Chef) of Wendake, a native reserve that is an enclave within what is now Quebec City, Canada. He succeeded Max Gros-Louis in 2008.
Sioui is a hereditary chief of the Bear Clan of the ...
, who succeeded Max Gros-Louis
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in 2008.[
The Huron had called their historic homeland Wendake; it was the territory south of Georgian Bay in present-day ]Simcoe Simcoe may refer to:
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and Grey County counties. The region was informally known as "Huronia" or the Georgian Triangle. A very large 15th-century Huron-Wendat settlement (the Mantle Site
The "Jean-Baptiste Lainé" or Mantle Site in the town of Whitchurch–Stouffville, north-east of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is the largest and most complex ancestral Wendat-Huron village to be excavated to date in the Lower Great Lakes region. Th ...
) has recently been discovered in Whitchurch–Stouffville. Its discovery has added to archeologists and anthropologists believing that the Wendat arose as a people in this area.
Other remnants of the Wendat and Petun peoples formed the Wyandot and migrated south, to present-day Michigan. Later they were forced west of the Mississippi River to Indian Territory in Kansas and Oklahoma. In the United States, there is one federally recognized Wyandot tribe: the Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma. The self-identified Wyandot Nation of Kansas
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Places
* Wyandot, Ohio, an unincorporated community
* Wyandot County, Ohio
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and Wyandot Nation of Anderdon
Wyandot may refer to:
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* Wyandot people, also known as the Huron
* Wyandot language
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* Wyandot, Ohio, an unincorporated community
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* Camp Wyandot, a Camp Fire Boys and ...
in Michigan are not federally recognized. In August 1999, these nations joined the contemporary Wendat Confederacy, pledging to provide mutual aid to each other in a spirit of peace, kinship, and unity."The Wendat Confederacy"
August 27, 1999, ''Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma.'' 2008 (retrieved February 2, 2009)
References
*https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2021/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&SearchText=wendake&GENDERlist=1&STATISTIClist=1&DGUIDlist=2021A00052423802 Community Profile: Wendake Indian Reserve, Quebec; Statistics Canada]
External links
Wendake website
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1651 establishments in the French colonial empire
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Quebec City Area