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6 unusual facts about Wendake


Auoindaon

Auoindaon was the native chief of the Wyandot (Huron) at Quieunonascaranas, a settlement in Wendake near modern-day Midland, Ontario.

Huron-Wendat

Wendake, Quebec, the current name for the Huron-Wendat reserve.

The Huron Feast of the Dead

By the period when the Wyandot migrated to Wendake (on the south shore of Georgian Bay in modern-day Simcoe and Grey counties in Ontario), these mortuary rituals came to represent the unity and friendship of Wyandot bands.

Jean de Brébeuf, a Jesuit missionary, was invited in the spring of 1636 to a large Feast of the Dead outside the village of Ossossané, the capital of Wendake.

Wendake, Quebec

Later they migrated south and by the early 17th century had settled in their historical territory of Wendake in the Georgian Bay region.

Later they migrated to the Georgian Bay area, where they encountered Europeans in the 17th century.


Huron-Wendat

Huron-Wendat Nation, known as the Nation Huronne-Wendat, they are a Huron-Wendat First Nation community at Wendake, Quebec.


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