Iroquoian

The Iroquoian group gathers the northern Iroquoian-speaking peoples outside the Haudenosaunee league: the St. Lawrence Iroquoians, the Neutrals and the Wenro. Jacques Cartier met the first at the villages of Stadacona and Hochelaga in 1535–1536, but by the late sixteenth century they had disappeared from the valley. The Neutrals lived in dozens of villages along the north shore of Lake Erie, from the Niagara Peninsula to the Detroit River.

In the Beaver Wars the Haudenosaunee, supplied with firearms by the Dutch, destroyed Wendake in 1649 and scattered the Neutrals in 1651. Survivors, including Wenro refugees, merged with other Iroquoian peoples; the Wyandot arose from such mergers.