Wenrohronon
| Wenro | |
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| Region | New York, Pennsylvania |
| Extinct | 17th century |
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| ISO 639-3 |
None (mis) |
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Linguist list
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qgv |
| Glottolog | wenr1236 |
The Wenrohronon or the Wenro People, were an Iroquoian Amerindian people of North America, originally residing in present-day western New York (and possibly fringe portions of northern & northwestern Pennsylvania) who were conquered by the Confederation of the Five Nations of the Iroquois in two decisive wars between 1638-1639 and 1643— probably as part of the Iroquois campaign against their likely relatives and abutting neighbors, the Neutral people which lived across the Niagara River. The Iroquois had discovered a secret, their winter attacks lead to advantageous campaigns allowing attritional defeats on both the larger Iroquoian confederacies, as it had against the numerous Huron.
The Tabacco people having fallen in 1650-1651 after a December 1649 sneak attack kicked off that phase of the Beaver Wars as the Iroquois rampaged westwards along the north shores of Lake Ontario after their defeat of the Huron in 1649. As had happened to the Huron peoples, the sudden unexpected winter attack led to disorganization and isolation of clan groups, and early losses of key towns by the Neutrals in the 1651-53 campaign by the warriors of the League of the Iroquois leading to eventual defeat and displacement (flight by whole villages) of first the Tobacco tribes, then the Neutral groups, as had happened to the Huron.
Through the first half of the 1600s sources report the Wenrohronon tribe inhabited a lands along both ends of the Lakes Erie and Ontario and their connecting river, the Niagara River. This range ran from the west side of the lower Genesee River valley around Rochester, NY (opposite to the territory of the Seneca peoples) and extended westerly along the right bank (eastern) shores of the Niagara River (opposite lands occupied by the main Neutral Nation on the Canadian side of today's river) and from lands at its source (Lake Erie, in the vicinity of Buffalo) continued a comparatively shorter distance along the southern shores at the eastern end of Lake Erie.
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