10 Facts About Petun

Petun, known as the Tobacco people, Wenro, or Tionontati, were an indigenous Iroquoian people of the woodlands of eastern North America.

Some remnant Petun joined with refugee Huron to become the Huron–Petun Nation, who were later known as the Wyandot.

Term "Petun" was derived from the early French-Brazilian trade and comes from the Guarani indigenous language.

One of the earliest traceable claims for notable tobacco production by the Petun is in the table of notes accompanying a 1632 map attributed to Champlain, but which was not wholly his creation.

The table has significant differences from Champlain's earlier work; in his 1619 text, he notes that the Petun grew corn, but did not mention tobacco, whereas the 1632 table explicitly mentions cultivation and trade of tobacco.

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The Petun were sometimes grouped with the Huron, and at other times unrelated peoples, such as the Cayuga, were called "Petun".

Petun emerged during the Late Ceramic archaeological period, which began around 1100 years ago and ended around 400 years ago.

The Petun were composed of two sub-groups which the Jesuits termed the "Nation of the Wolves" and the "Nation of the Deer".

However, a large group of Huron and Petun refugees fled to the upper Great Lakes, where they took refuge with the Odawa and Potawatomi.

Petun nation shared a similar dialect with the Huron Nation and many of the same cultural customs.