Attigneenongnahac

The Attigneenongnahac, whose Wendat name Hatingeennonniahak means “makers of cords for nets,” were the Cord nation and one of the founding peoples of the Wendat Confederacy of southern Ontario. In the mid-fifteenth century they allied with the Bear nation, forming the nucleus the Rock nation joined around 1590 and the Deer around 1610.

They shared Wendake between Lake Simcoe and Georgian Bay: a country of twenty or more palisaded longhouse towns, its matrilineal families farming the Three Sisters and trading maize and tobacco with neighbouring Tionontati and Neutral.

European epidemics reduced the confederacy from perhaps thirty thousand people to about nine thousand by 1640, and the Haudenosaunee conquest of Wendake in 1648 and 1649 scattered the Cord nation with the rest; its survivors ended in Haudenosaunee villages, the Quebec settlement of Wendake, or the Wyandot fusion with the Tionontati.