Souharissen was the warrior chief who lived in a village called Ounontisatan, which was visited by the French in 1625-1626, and reached a trade agreement with the Neutral people, who then received protection from Souharissen. The "principal headman" took on and defeated the "Fire" Nation in what is now Michigan. The Recollect priest Joseph de la Roche Daillon lived with him for five months in the winter of 1626–1627. Daillon visited 28 Neutral villages, including the capital, which came to be known as Notre Dame de Angels. The fertile flats of the various oxbows that Big Creek, three miles from its mouth at Grand River make, are ideal for a long-term settlement pattern. Noble even uses the term "Neutralia" to designate the concentration of Iroquoian-speaking natives.