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[Kirkhill]

Then add the layer that they were refugees and colonial settlers... whose ancestors wiped out the actual ancestral indigenous nation the Neutral Confederacy ~120 years prior in the Beaver Wars

Who, like Brant's people and the Huron spoke an Iroquoian tongue unrelated to the Algonkian languages of the Anishinaabe Ojibway and the Cree that were there before the Iroquoians showed up with their corn and their forts....

After the Inuit and Vikings met up in Newfoundland.

....

I love history.

 

[foresterab]

They were pretty well wiped out by the Mohawk and Iroquois Confederacy, who killed, took them as slaves or assimilated them into Mohawk bands, while pillaging their land and resources.

100% understood that part.

I use them often a case study when talking with peers and others about the complexity of First Nation history and trying to define things cleanly.
The French-Huron alliance vs. the British-Iroquois battles of history and yet who is original owners of the land today?

It's like trying to say the borders of Europe today are the exact same over history and that no invasions/mergers/purges or other dastardly events occurred in years past.