Hello and welcome to Iroquois History and Legends. This is Andrew.

And this is Caleb. And welcome to episode 13, the French Connections.

If you recall in our last episode, we talked about the Erie, the cat people, and we talked about

the Wenro, we talked about the Neutral, and the people, and we talked about the Wenro, we talked about the neutral,

and the Airquois League has just gone out and wiped these three powerful nations off the map.

They've killed a lot of the men, and then they've adopted and brought into their communities,

a lot of the women and children to replace them. They want to keep pushing. They want to keep expanding and getting more hunting grounds.

But what good is all this hunting ground and what good is catching all these beavers and stuff

unless you've got somebody to sell it to?

That's right.

This episode, we're going to be looking at another side of kind of our last episode.

What we're going to be talking about is taking

place at a lot of the same time period from the wars that the Aroquois are waging in the

west and northwest. But we're going to be looking at this now from the French and Aeroquois

perspective. It takes on a more diplomatic approach because as good as the Iroquois were at war,

they were even better at diplomacy.

This will also be interesting because we actually have some documentation.

The only problem is with documentation is it can be a little one-sided sometimes.

All of this documentation we have is written journals from the Jesuits,

who I'm sure in their heads are being completely honest and truthful,

but whenever you take anything from one person's perspective,

it's always going to be tilted in their favor.

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