Erie people

The Erie, also known as the Eriehronon, Eriechronon or La Nation du Chat, 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 and Seneca. Their territory was located southeast of Lake Erie in what is now Western New York and northwestern Pennsylvania. The Erie as a distinct entity became extinct in the mid-1650s after several years of warfare with the Haudenosaunee. Most survivors were absorbed into the Haudenosaunee but is has been suggested that a remnant group of Erie may have fled south to Virginia where they were known as the Richahecrian, and as the Westo after their migration to the Savannah River.