| 单词 | neutral nation |
| 释义 | > as lemmasNeutral Nation Neutral Nation n. North American History the peoples comprising the Neutral (see sense A. 1b); (also) any of these peoples. ΚΠ 1838 A. Jameson Winter Stud. & Summer Rambles Canada II. 303 To the east of the Detroit territory, there was settled from ancient times a band of Wyandots or Hurons, who were called the neutral nation; they never took part in the wars and conflicts of the other tribes. 1881 L. H. Morgan Houses & House-Life Amer. Aborigines 26 About 1651–'55 they [sc. the Iroquois] expelled their kindred tribes, the Eries, from the region between the Genesee River and Lake Erie, and shortly afterwards the Neutral Nations from the Niagara River. 1974 W. S. Sturtevant in J. Billard World Amer. Indian 130 With the Huron broken, the Attiwandaronk—better known as the Neutral Nation—came next in liquidation. 1985 Canad. Encycl. II. 789/2 The earliest references to habitation in the Hamilton area come from 17th-century French accounts referring to the Neutral nation. < as lemmas |
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