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Nicolas Arendanki

1620-1649
Born: Huron Mission, Beorgian Bay, Ontario, Canada
Died: Fort St Louis, Quebec, Canada

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    <p>http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/m/a/l/Linda-R-Malbroughmcmurray/GENE2-0001.html</p><p>Nicolas Arendanki and Jeanne Otrihoandit, which are not their true names. These names were probably given to them by missionaries. The Arendanki name means &quot; he who comes from beyond Arenda&quot; This was the Huron name for the mission of Saint Marie-Madeleine where the family lived. I am unable to find if there is any special significance to the name &quot;Otrihoandit&quot; that was given to her Jeanne.</p><p>Around 1600, the French gave the nickname &quot;Huron&quot; to an Indian tribe that dressed their heads with feathers which made them resembled the head of some animal. This name was already used by the French to mean a slovenly and unpolished person. &quot;The head of a boar&quot; is still a French expression and figuratively means that a Huron is person who isn&#39;t civilized and is uneducated. <br><br>The true name of the Huron Indians is &quot;Ouendanke, which refers to a geographic area in the county and means &quot;isolated or separated from others&quot;. The Huron home territory consisted of an area 20 miles by 40 miles near the shores of George Bay with about 20 to 30 villages distributed within it. This is in the current county of Simcoe and in the province of Ontario. The location of the tribe put it in a strategic location for both West and South travel routes.</p><p>In 1615 , the Recollect missionaries along with Champlain visited the Huron Country. The Recollect missionaries planned to remain in Huron country, <br>but it was the Jesuits in 1637 that promoted a prosperous community. <br><br>The Jesuits converted a large number of the Huron people to Christianity , including the villagers at the mission of St. Madeleine. Since Catherine&#39;s <br>parents were Christians and were given the Christian names of Nicolas and Jeanne , we have no other way to find their Huron names or identities. <br><br>On May 21, 1636, the Jesuits began to build a church in Conception Parrish. The superior for the Huron missionaries in 1649 was Father Ragueneau. <br>He had 12 missionaries under his direction and their names are recorded by the Realations of the Jesuits. <br><br>The Conception Parrish Father Chaumonot said that his Christian flock was the dearest in the world. The &quot; Village of Believers&quot; was the name given to this village because of their fidelity in the practice of Christian virtues. The Huron intelligence and character was also given high praise by Father Brebeuf. <br><br>Ten mission were attached to St. Madeleine, which was one of the oldest, and there were also three post among the Algonquins. There were 64 whites, 18 of which were priests, the rest brothers ,laborers and 8 soldiers at the Huron post. <br><br>A war without mercy had been waged by the Iroquois against the Hurons for a number of earlier years. The Iroquois hated the French because of a treaty that had been made in 1611 under Champlain. The Iroquois waited until around 1637-1640 to start the true quarrel with the Huron. <br><br>The village of St. Joseph II was destroyed on July 4, 1648 and 700 people , mostly women and children ,were killed including Father Antoine Daniel. </p><p>More than 2000 Iroquois warriors invaded the Huron villages on March 16, 1649. The valiant Hurons were no match for the Iroquois. They were out numbered and the Iroquois had been furnished with firearms by the Dutch from New England. Missionaries and their converts were killed as the villages fell one after another. Intense cruelty was shown to Father de Brebeuf, when he was taken and tortured on that day. Poor Father Gabriel Lallemant under similar torments did not die until the next day and the hecatombe continued. Nicolas Arendanki, father of Catherine, was one of the 200 Huron warriors that went into battle against the Iroquois. The Huron were annihilated to the last man on the same day that the village of St. Madeleine fell. <br><br>The few Hurons that managed to flee searched for places of refuge. Some found it in friendlier tribes,and others got lost in the masses and lived among their conquerors while others just ran for their lives. The survivors[only 600] of the Saint Marie-Madeleine blood bath were nearly all women, children and cripples managed to find refuge on Isle St. Joseph in the Bay of George at a provisionary fort [Saint Marie II ] built by missionaries. The winter of 1649-1650 brought further hardship to the survivors. Starvation killed many, while it forced others to risk their lives fishing and to look for food where they could be found by the Iroquois. The Iroquois were always on the lookout for any Huron survivors and killed them when found. <br><br></p>

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    <p><span style="font-family: tahoma; font-size: 12pt"><em><font color="#0000ff">http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~massasoit/huron.htm</font></em></span></p><p><span style="font-family: tahoma; font-size: 12pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><em><strong>&nbsp;</strong><span style="font-family: tahoma; font-size: 12pt">Nicolas Arendanki was born abt 1620 in Sillery, Canada, Distinguished chieftain from the Bear Clan of the Huron nation who was massacred by Iroquois Warriors.<span>&nbsp; </span>Jeanne Otrino-Andet born abt 1620 in Sillery, Canada. </span></em></font></span></p><p><span style="font-family: tahoma; font-size: 12pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><strong><em>Nicolas ARENDANKI</em></strong><em> was born about 1623 in &lt;Huron Mission, Georgian Bay, Ontario&gt;. He married Jeanne OTRI-HO-ANDET. <strong>Jeanne OTRI-HO-ANDET</strong> was born about 1627 in &lt;Huron Mission, Georgian Bay, Ontario&gt;. She married Nicolas ARENDANKI. They had the following children: <span>&nbsp;</span>Catherine Annennontak </em></font></span><span style="font-family: tahoma; font-size: 12pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><em>http://members.verizon.net/mlaferriere/webtree/pafg77.htm</em></font></span></p><p><span style="font-family: tahoma; font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: tahoma; font-size: 12pt">Nicolas was one of the first Indian Chiefs to embrace the Christian religion and was well known to the missionaries Brebeuf Lallemant and Isaac Jogues and others who were martyred during the massacre. Nicolas was among the missing and no doubt suffered martyrdom like many others on that fateful day.</span></span></p>

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