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'Toronto' Is An Iroquois Word
http://dragonflycanada.ca/toronto-is-an-iroquois-word/
Publisher: Dragonfly Consulting Services Canada
Date Written: 20/08/2012
Year Published: 2012
Resource Type: Article
The author tries to make the case that southern Ontario is historically Haudenosaunee (Iroqouis) territory. She conflates the term 'Iroquoian,' meaning the larger language and cultural grouping, with the narrower term 'Iroquois,' which refers specifically to the Five (later Six) Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy. In doing so, she tries to make it seem that the Huron who inhabited much of Southern Ontario until they were invaded and destroyed by the Haudenosaunee Confederacy in the 1640s, were just another branch of the Iroquois Confederacy. She dismisses the Anishinabe, who moved into southern Ontario after defeating the Iroquois Confederacy in the late 1600s, as latercomers whose oral histories, and claims to Southern Ontario should not be taken seriously.
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