Petun

petun English right|thumb|A Petun medicine man. Etymology From en fr pétun or en petun, an early name for tobacco, which the people grew and traded. Noun s * en historical A member of the Iroquoian "tobacco people", or Tionontati, a First Nation located on the southwest edge of the Georgian Bay of Lake Huron, west of the Huron territory in Southern Ontario. en 2006 Daniel P. Barr Unconquered: The Iroquois League at War in Colonial America Greenwood Publishing Group 9780275984663 50 During the 1650s, the Senecas, Cayugas, and Onondagas expanded their war against the Hurons to include the Petuns, Neutrals, and Eries, in part because these Indian nations offered asylum to refugee bands of Hurons, but also because ... en 2014 Charles Garrad Petun to Wyandot: The Ontario Petun from the Sixteenth Century University of Ottawa Press 9780776621500 155 We might always wonder about when the first meeting between a Petun and a European actually took place. Could there have been some Petun travellers in the St. Lawrence Valley visiting with St. Lawrence Iroquoians ... Anagrams en enptu punte