petun

1. historicalrareTobacco, especially in the context of its early acquisition from Native Americans by the French.

plural Petuns

1. historicalA member of the Iroquoian "tobacco people", or Tionontati, a First Nation located on the southwest edge of the Georgian Bay of Lake Huron, west of the Huron territory in Southern Ontario.

   We might always wonder about when the first meeting between a Petun and a European actually took place. Could there have been some Petun travellers in the St. Lawrence Valley visiting with St. Lawrence Iroquoians ...

   2014, Charles Garrad, Petun to Wyandot: The Ontario Petun from the Sixteenth Century, University of Ottawa Press, →ISBN, page 155

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   During the 1650s, the Senecas, Cayugas, and Onondagas expanded their war against the Hurons to include the Petuns, Neutrals, and Eries, in part because these Indian nations offered asylum to refugee bands of Hurons, but also because ...

   2006, Daniel P. Barr, Unconquered: The Iroquois League at War in Colonial America, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 50