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The Petun (tobacco in French), or Tionontati, were anhttp://www.answers.com/topic/iroquoian-languages-speaking http://www.answers.com/topic/first-nations-of-canada people closely related to thehttp://www.answers.com/topic/wyandot. Their homeland was located along the southwest edge of http://www.answers.com/topic/georgian-bay, in the area immediately to the west of the Huron territory in http://www.answers.com/topic/southern-Ontario of present-dayhttp://www.answers.com/topic/canada. They had eight to ten villages, and may have numbered several thousand prior to European contact.http://www.answers.com/tobacco%20tribe#cite_note-0.
Following decimation by disease, both Huron and Petun survivors were dispersed by http://www.answers.com/topic/iroquois warfare and encroachment in the late 17th century. The remnants joined with some refugee Hurons to become the Huron-Petuns, later known as the http://www.answers.com/topic/wyandot.
Namehttp://www.answers.com/topic/france traders called these http://www.answers.com/topic/first-nations-of-canada people the Petun(tobacco), for their industrious cultivation of that plant. Petun as a word for tobacco became obsolete; it was derived from the early French http://www.answers.com/topic/Brazil trade.http://www.answers.com/tobacco%20tribe#cite_note-1 In the Mohawk dialect of the Iroquois, the name for tobacco is O-ye-aug-wa.http://www.answers.com/tobacco%20tribe#cite_note-2
French colonial tradesmen and the following settlers in the Ohio Valley called the Wyandot, guyandot. The http://www.answers.com/topic/guyandotte-river in south-western http://www.answers.com/topic/west-Virginia was named for the http://www.answers.com/topic/wyandot people who had migrated to the area during the http://www.answers.com/topic/north-american-fur-trade wars.
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What kind of houses did the tobacco nation tribe live in?
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What did the Iowa tribe eat?
They ate buffaloes,salmon, tobacco,fruit,and other little animals such as rabbits,squiarels, and birds.
What was the Powhatan tribe known for in history?
The Powhatan Native American tribe is best known for the conflict had with the settlers of Jamestown. Conflicts began when it became clear that the settlers of Jamestown sought Tribal lands to expand the land used to grow tobacco.
What were the resources of the wyandot tribe?
The Wyandot tribe of northern Ohio had good fertile land,the honey came from the beehives,trees,flint,and they planted beans,tobacco,corn,squash,and pumpkins.They would also kill the birds and use the feathers for dream catchers.
What products were used in the Virginia colony?
Tobacco
What kind of houses did the tobacco nation tribe live in?
18
Where did the tobacco tribe lived in the 17th century?
The tobacco tribe lived south of the Huron at the east of the great lakes and west of the League of Iroquois around the border of what is now the US and Canada. More specificly, the Canadian state of Ontario. I hope this answers your question.
What did the easternwoodlands eat?
They are hunters and gatherers but they mainly eat animals found close to their tribe, they also eat the tobacco plant.
What did the Iowa tribe eat?
They ate buffaloes,salmon, tobacco,fruit,and other little animals such as rabbits,squiarels, and birds.
What plant does the blueberry plant relate to?
the bluberry plant is related to the tobacco plant and these both plants come from a native tribe called the incas
What was the Powhatan tribe known for in history?
The Powhatan Native American tribe is best known for the conflict had with the settlers of Jamestown. Conflicts began when it became clear that the settlers of Jamestown sought Tribal lands to expand the land used to grow tobacco.
Who was the first person to do drugs?
most likely the first African tribe which is where we were created thousands of years ago. pipes have been unburied used for herbs or tobacco.
What were the resources of the wyandot tribe?
The Wyandot tribe of northern Ohio had good fertile land,the honey came from the beehives,trees,flint,and they planted beans,tobacco,corn,squash,and pumpkins.They would also kill the birds and use the feathers for dream catchers.
What products were used in the Virginia colony?
Tobacco
What crop made the colony of Jamestown successful?
tobacco
What is English tobacco?
Tobacco made in England
What is unmanufactured tobacco?
Tobacco Leaves on a tobacco plant
