Ataronchronon

The Ataronchronon, whose name means “people of the bog,” were the fifth group of the Wendat Confederacy of southern Ontario, in the marshy country on Georgian Bay's southeastern fringe. French observers were unsure whether they held full nation status; they may have been only a division of the dominant Attignawantan, or Bear nation.

They shared the settled Iroquoian life of other Wendat: palisaded towns of bark longhouses, matrilineal clans, and fields of maize, beans and squash worked by women.

When Dutch-armed Haudenosaunee destroyed Wendake in the Beaver Wars of 1648 and 1649, the Ataronchronon dispersed with the Bear people, survivors joining Haudenosaunee communities, the French-protected Wendat settlement near Quebec, or the Wyandot around the Tionontati.