Scanonaenrat

Scanonaenrat was the large village of the Tahontaenrat, or Deer nation, in the southern part of Wendake. The Deer joined the Wendat confederacy around 1610 and, unlike its other constituent nations, were recorded as living together in a single village. Jesuit missionaries called their mission there Saint-Michel. In 1649, as Haudenosaunee attacks devastated neighbouring Wendat settlements, warriors from the village set out in pursuit of the raiders. The Deer people were among the Wendat who subsequently left their homeland and joined the Seneca.