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Champlain meets the Wendat (Huron) on his exploratory expedition to Wendake, the ancestral homeland of the Wendat. In the area southeast of the Georgian Bay, north of Lake Simcoe, the Wendat numbered about 20,000 people distributed in 18 towns and villages, eight of which were palisaded.
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Jesuits in Wendake
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Nation is dreadfully scourged by an epidemic of smallpox. Half the population dies. Father Jerome Lalemant states that the Wendat comprised "four nations" the general name that which is common..is Wendat..the individual names are Attignawantan (Bear), Attigneenongnahac (Cord), Arenahronons (Rock) and Atohontaenrat (Deer).
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Beaver and other furred animals had almost disappeared from the Iroquois country and the Iroquois who needed furs to trade to the Dutch began raids on the Wyandot trade routes.
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War breaks out between the Mohawk and Seneca against the Huron. The Mohawk and Senecas have 500 to 600 guns. The Huron nation is scattered.
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Huron and Petun are decisively defeated and flee westward to Mackinac Island.
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300 Huron who had wintered on Christian Island go to Quebec accompanied by 60 Frenchmen from the abandoned Huron Mission.
