By 1600, however, the villages and people were gone. Since the 1950s, historians and anthropologists have used archeological and linguistic evidence to develop a consensus that the people formed a distinct ethnic group, whom they have called St. Lawrence Iroquoians.
By 1600, the villages and inhabitants had disappeared. Since the 1950s, historians and anthropologists have used archaeological and linguistic evidence to establish a consensus on the existence of a distinct ethnic group that these people formed, which they call St. Lawrence Iroquoians.