In the mid-to late 1660s and early 1670s, the Haudenosaunee established a series of settlements at strategic locations along the trade routes inland at short distances from the north shore of Lake Ontario.
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This volume brings together traditional Indigenous knowledge as well as documentary and recent archaeological evidence of this period and focuses on describing the historical context and efforts to find the settlements and presents examinations of the unique material culture found at them and at similar communities in the Haudenosaunee homeland.
It appears that most of the north shore villages were abandoned by 1688.
In 1676, a short-lived subsidiary mission was established at Teiaiagon.
The Cayuga village of Kenté was where, in 1668, the Sulpicians established a mission by the same name, which became the basis for the region\'s later name of Quinte.
These self-sufficient places acted as bases for their own inhabitants but also served as stopovers for south shore Haudenosaunee on their way to and from the beaver hunt beyond the lower Great Lakes.
All of these settlements likely contained people from several Haudenosaunee nations as well as former Ontario Iroquoians who had been adopted by the Haudenosaunee.
From east to west, these communities consisted of Ganneious, on Napanee or Hay Bay, on the Bay of Quinte
Kenté, near the isthmus of the Quinte Peninsula
Ganaraské, at the mouth of the Ganaraska River
Quintio, on Rice Lake
Ganatsekwyagon, near the mouth of the Rouge River
Teiaiagon, near the mouth of the Humber River; and Qutinaouatoua, inland from the western end of Lake Ontario.
In the mid-to late 1660s and early 1670s, the Haudenosaunee established a series of settlements at strategic locations along the trade routes inland at short distances from the north shore of Lake Ontario
