A visitor to these people’s possible capital of Ossossané observed a 10-day Feast of the Dead, in which disinterred relatives were moved to pelt-lined ossuaries. A travelogue by the Baron Lahontan contains probably fictional debates between himself and a real orator of these people named Kondiaronk. The mission of “Sainte-Marie Among [these people]” is now the location of a shrine to eight 17th-century martyrs. Many of these people banded together with the related “Tobacco People,” or (*) Petun, after a 1648 attack that killed the Jesuit Jean de Brébeuf. Along with several northern Algonquin groups, a confederation of these people was defeated and displaced by the Haudenosaunee (“hoh-deh-noh-SHO-nee”) during the Beaver Wars. For 10 points, Wendake was the home of what indigenous group, whose exonym names a lake between Michigan and Ontario? ■END■
ANSWER: Huron [or Wendat, Wyandot, Wyandotte, Huron-Wendat, or Nation Huronne-Wendat; accept Huron-Petun until “Petun” is read; prompt on Tionontati; prompt on Petun until read]
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