We are a group of four tribes called Wendake, speaking the Iroquoian language. We meet once a year to renew our alliance. The area we occupy is forested, west of Lake Simcoe and east of Georgian Bay. Most of the land good for growing crops and is excellent for hunting. One of your holy men you call Recollets, Brother Gabriel Sagard, described our land in his reports (The Jesuit Relations) to your homeland in Europe: "...a well cleared country pretty and pleasant and crossed by streams which empty into the great lake. There is no ugly surface of great rocks and barren mountains such as one sees in many places in the Canadian and Algonquian Territory. The country is full of fine hills, open fields, very beautiful broad meadows bearing much excellent hay." Return to Other Ways of Seeing... |
