Wenrohronon

The Wenrohronon or Wenro people were an Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands, historically from what is now western New York. They were an Iroquoian people who are thought to have been closely related to the Neutral. They spoke a language that was mutually intelligible with that spoken by the Wendat. Like most Iroquoian groups, they were almost certainly characterized by a matrilineal social structure, communal living in longhouses, and an agricultural economy centered on the cultivation of the "Three Sisters" (maize, beans, and squash).

The Wenro were dispersed by the Haudenosaunee Confederacy in the late 1630s during the Beaver Wars. The Neutral Confederacy had previously protected the Wenro from the Seneca, the westernmost nation of the Haudenosaunee, but had withdrawn their support leaving them open to raids. The Wenro subsequently sought asylum with the Wendat. The Jesuit Relation of 1639–1640 records 600 Wenro arriving at the village of the village of Ossossané on Nottawasaga Bay. A decade later the Haudenosaunee attacked the Wendat in order to replenish population lost to epidemics and to take control of the fur trade.

The name "Wenrohronon" has been translated as "people at the place of the floating scum." According to early ethnohistorian J. N. B. Hewitt, this was a reference to the oil spring at what is now Cuba, New York. This oil spring was the first recorded source of petroleum in what is now the United States. Most researchers, however, place the Wenro further to the north in the vicinity of the Old Orchard Swamp (south of Medina, New York). In The Jesuit Relations, it is recorded that the Wenro's territory was located east of the Neutral and west of the Seneca. This places the Wenro to the north of the Erie who lived south of the Buffalo River. Wenro territory is thought to have encompassed the area south of Lake Ontario between the Niagara and Genessee rivers, however, it is likely the Wenro inhabited only one or two villages.