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The ERIE INDIANS, or the CAT NATION, were first noted in 1624 when the Huron told Fr. Gabriel Sagard about Eriehronon, or Eriquehronon, living across the lake. Sagard's 1639 Huron Dictionary translated this term as "Cat People," possibly referring to raccoons rather than any feline animal.
Erie, Iroquoian-speaking North American Indians who inhabited most of what is now northern Ohio, parts of northwestern Pennsylvania, and western New York; they were often referred to as the Cat Nation. Little is known of their social or political organization, but early Jesuit accounts record that.
The Erie people were an Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands historically living on the south shore of Lake Erie. An Iroquoian-speaking tribe, they lived in what is now western New York, northwestern Pennsylvania, and northern Ohio before 1658. [2] .
15 Αυγ 2018 · The City of Erie owes its own name to its indigenous population. The Erie people were several connected tribes, Iroquoian both linguistically and culturally, who inhabited the lands south of Lake Erie. Their population stretched from Western Ohio, through Pennsylvania, and into New York as far east as the Genesee River.
The ERIE INDIANS, or the CAT NATION, were first noted in 1624 when the Huron told Fr. Gabriel Sagard about Eriehronon, or Eriquehronon, living across the lake. Sagard's 1639 Huron Dictionary translated this term as "Cat People," possibly referring to raccoons rather than any feline animal.
25 Απρ 2017 · Thus, the Erie tribe was popularly known as the "Cat Nation." Traditionally, they lived on the southern shores of Lake Erie. They lived in sedentary agricultural villages in an area now including parts of northern Ohio, northwestern Pennsylvania, and western New York.
Many Indians of the Iroquois, Susquehannock, and Huron tribes today can trace their origins back to the Erie people. Many of the descendants of the Erie who were adopted by the Seneca began leaving the Iroquois homeland during the 1720's and returned to Ohio.
