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The grison or huron (Galictis vittata) is a small weasel found in South America, and extending northwards to Mexico.
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Huron is a nickname for a member of a confederation of five Iroquoian North American Indian peoples living near lakes Huron, Erie, and Ontario in the 16th and 17th centuries. They were almost wiped out by the Iroquois. In the 17th century, surviving Hurons formed a group called Wyandot, some of whose descendants now live in Quebec and Oklahoma.
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The Ojibway (Ojibwa, Chippewa, Chippewayans) are a North American Indian tribe of the North Carolina Algonquin family. The Ojibway originated from Sault Marie in Ontario and were contacted by Europeans in the 17th century, becoming involved in the fur trade from about 1670 and during the 18th century extended east and north-west. At the end of the 19th century they were living on the shores of Lake Huron and Lake Superior. Early wars with neighboring-tribes greatly reduced their numbers. They joined Pontiac. During the American War of Independence they were allies of England, but made peace by treaties in 1785 and 1789. They joined in the Miamis' uprising, but, reduced by Wayne, made peace in 1795. They ceded most of their lands on Lake Erie in 1805. They renewed hostilities in 1812, but joined in the peace of 1816, and relinquished all their lands in Ohio. Other treaties ceding territory followed, and by 1851 nearly the entire tribe had moved west of the Mississippi.
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William Aberhart (nicknamed Bible Bill) was a Canadian politician. He was born in 1878 at Huron County, Ontario and died in 1943. After working as a teacher and a clergyman in 1935 he became a member of the Alberta legislature, forming the Canadian Social Credit Party and becoming Premier in the same year. He campaigned for legislation to give each Albertan a $5 a month dividend from the province's natural resources, but was blocked by the federal government.
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Cheryl Ladd is an American actress. She was born in 1951 at Huron, South Dakota.
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Colleen Moore (real name Kathleen Morrison) was an American actress of the silent-era. She was born in 1900 at Port Huron, Michigan and died in 1988 of cancer.
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In Huron mythology, Airsekui is the great spirit. He is invoked at times of great danger.
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In Huron mythology, Heng is the god of thunder.
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In Huron mythology, Ioskeha was the all-good twin brother of Tawiskara, grandson of Ataentsic. He duelled with his brother for control of the world, each brother taking up whatever weapon he could find. Tawiskara fought with a rose-twig bu Ioskeha used a stag's antlers and won. Tawiskara fled into exile, weeping flint tears, and
Ioskeha celebrated his victory and his power in the world by creating the Huron people.
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In geology, huronian-rocks is a term applied to certain rocks on the banks of Lake Huron, consisting of quartzite, with masses of chloritic schist. They occupy the same relative position as the upper parts of the Archaean rocks of Britain.
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