Does anyone know anything about the Erie Indians?

Dr. dig responds:
Very little is known about the Erie Indians except that they were important and that they were there. Early Dutch and Swedish settlers heard about them through their trade with the Susquehannock, but never actually met the Erie. All information about their social and political organization has come from early Jesuit accounts of what they had been told by the Huron.

The Erie were called the Long-tail people or the Cat people and they inhabited many villages along the southern shores of Lake Erie and spoke a dialect of Iroquoian. They were wiped out by the Iroquois indians in the mid-1700s.

You can find out more about the Erie indians by going to: members.tripod.com/~PHILKON/names.html or by going to www.dickshovel.com/erie.html.