Episode 29
27:48

The Destruction of Wendake Part 2

Published March 12, 2026

March 16, 1649 was a fateful day for the Wendat Confederacy. An attack by the Haudenosaunee led to difficult decisions needing to be made for the survival of th...

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March 16, 1649 was a fateful day for the Wendat Confederacy. An attack by the Haudenosaunee led to difficult decisions needing to be made for the survival of the Wendat people.

Sources

The Children of Aateantsic: A History of the Huron People to 1660 by Bruce Trigger

Natives and Newcomers: Canada's Heroic Age Reconsidered by Bruce Trigger

Dispersed But Not Destroyed by Kathryn Magee Labelle

Blackhawk, Ned. “The Destruction of Wendake (Huronia), 1647–1652.” In The Cambridge World History of Genocide, edited by Ned Blackhawk, Ben Kiernan, Benjamin Madley, and Rebe Taylor, 243–266. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.

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Otterbein, Keith F. “Huron vs. Iroquois: A Case Study in Inter-Tribal Warfare.” Ethnohistory 26, no. 2 (Spring 1979): 141–152.

Magee, Kathryn. “They Are the Life of the Nation: Women and War in Traditional Nadouek Society.” The Canadian Journal of Native Studies 28, no. 1 (2008): 119–138.

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Episode Info
Episode
29
Duration
27:48
Published
March 12, 2026