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First Peoples
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Rockies |
Plains |
Inuit |
Cree | Huron |
Algonquin |
Maritimes |
Iroquois
| Beothuk
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James Fennimore Copper were an aggressive, sophisticated intelligent race.
They planted corn and harvest their crops, lived in comfortable villages and
were politically active within their tribes. The St Lawrence Iroquois had
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settlements along the river,
Stadacona (Quebec City) and Hochelaga (Montreal) with more then
20 other villages spread out between them. They hunted game,
fished in the river and ocean, harvested the seals and may have
hunted whales in the river. Their disappearance from this area
may have been because of pressure from the surrounding
Algonquin's but some believe the evidence points towards a large
and continuous attack by the Huron's who wiped out the adult
population and took the children to live with them.
The existence of farming
allowed the St Lawrence Iroquois and other farming groups to
create larges a surplus of food and population growth was rapid.
By 1350 not only had the farms become larger but fortifications
appeared around the villages which indicated that constant
warfare had set in among the peoples of the area.
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