Erie people

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The Erie were an Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands who lived in the lower Great Lakes region until the mid-17th century. An Iroquoian people, they shared many cultural traits with their neighbors, including the Neutral, Wendat (Huron) and Seneca. Their territory was southeast of Lake Erie in what became western New York and northwestern Pennsylvania. The Erie ceased to exist as a political entity in the mid-1650s after several years of warfare with the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois). Most survivors were absorbed into the Haudenosaunee. Some may have fled south to Virginia, where they were known as the Richahecrian and may have become the Westo.

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