Author: Huron Institute

Publisher:

Published: 2015-06-29

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13: 9781330495827

Excerpt from Papers and Records, Vol. 1 The inhabitants of the villages 011 the Blue Mountains, of which we have the earliest record, were a branch of the Huron Indian nation, having the same language and called Tianontatcs or Kionontateronons. Their principal villages were on the easterly slopes of the Blue Mountains, situate in the Township of Nottawasaga, County of Simcoe; Township of Collingwood, County of Grey and Township of Mulinur, County of Dufferin, and inhabited by the Wolf and Deer tribes. Amongst this people a mission was established by the Jesuit Fathers, who called them Petun or Tobacco Indians, the mission, the "Mission of the Apostles," and also named the ten principal villages. Those village sites covered from ten to twenty acres, some being fortified. The houses were built of strong saplings and covered with bark of oak, elm, spruce or cedar. When fortified, the site chosen was on the bank of a lake, crown of a hill, or point of land in the fork of a river, or between two streams flowing in ravines. Their principal food, apart from that obtained by hunting, was Indian corn and smoked fish. They also cultivated pumpkins, beans and sunflowers. Tobacco was grown in quantity. The corn was stored in caches, or deep holes in the earth, and in some cases a supply sufficient for two or three years was laid up. The villages were inhabited from ten to thirty years. When the land in one vicinity was exhausted it would be deserted and a new location found. Before the French traders came in the principal weapons were axes, spears and arrowheads of stone. Pipes and cooking utensils were usually made of baked clay. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.