People
For 1,000 years, the culture and languages were dominated the central northeastern woodlands. The Bear, Cord, Rock and Deer nations who made up the Huron League lived in Heuronia, which was the peninsula of land. The french people called these people "Huron" which meant "Unkempt Knave".
The Huron people preferred to be called "Wendat" which meant the "dwellers of the Peninsula". The population was between 20,000 and 30,000 people. The Huron people formed the largest and most powerful of all of the Iroquois leagues.
The South Huronia and the west were the lands of the tobacco crops (or Petun) and the Neutral Leagues. The soil was not quite as easily worked as it was in the Huronia district because it also had a warmer climate. The Five Nations people were very similar to the Huron in many ways. Some of these ways were because the men both saw that raiding and warfare was a means of demonstrating their courage and proving their worth.
The Iroquois were generally much taller than most of the European people. Since there was no writing or books, the people developed excellent memories. Everyone knew that they had to work together in groups to accomplish things together. Co-operation existed among those who lived in the same house, village or nation and it was essential to their survival.