Wenrohronon
Sign in to saveThe Wenrohronon or Wenro people were an Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands, historically from western New York and possibly northern Pennsylvania.
Key facts
- Former country.native_name
- Wenrohronon
- Former country.conventional_long_name
- Wenrohronon people
- Former country.common_name
- Wenro
- Former country.year_end
- 1660
- Former country.year_start
- Before 1600
- Former country.image_map
- Image:Wenro Territory ca1630 map-en.svg
- Former country.image_map_caption
- Wenro and neighboring nations in the early 17th century
- Former country.capital
- Oil Springs (near present-day Cuba, New York)
- Former country.common_languages
- Wenro (Iroquoian languages)
- Former country.stat_year1
- 1600
- Former country.stat_pop1
- Unknown (estimated in the low thousands)
- Former country.stat_year2
- 1650
- Former country.stat_pop2
- Absorbed into Wyandot and Haudenosaunee peoples
- Former country.today
- Descendants among the Haudenosaunee and Wyandotte Nation
- Former country.religion
- Traditional Iroquoian religion
- Former country.demonym
- Wenro
- Language.name
- Wenro
- Language.region
- New York, Pennsylvania
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The Wenrohronon or Wenro people were an Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands, historically from western New York and possibly northern Pennsylvania.
They were defeated by the Haudenosaunee Confederacy in two decisive wars between 1638–1639 and 1643. This was likely part of the Iroquois Confederacy campaign against the Neutral people, another Iroquoian-speaking tribe, which lived across the Niagara River. This warfare was part of what was known as the Beaver Wars, as the Iroquois worked to dominate the lucrative fur trade. They used winter attacks, which were not usual among Native Americans, and their campaigns resulted in attrition of both the larger Iroquoian confederacies, as they had against the numerous Wendat.
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