As early as 1615, the people of present-day southern Ontario and upper New York State forged a trading alliance with the French, and many of them converted to Catholicism.

The Huron People

Explanation:

The Huron people/ Huron Nation also called Wyandot people or Wendat, are an Iroquoian-speaking peoples of North America who emerged as a tribe around the north shore of Lake Ontario forged a trading alliance with the French, and many of them converted to Catholicism During that time, The Huron had from the start welcomed the French as emissaries and as important links for French goods and supplies as well as allies in their wars against their enemies, the Iroquois. That was during wake of the Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Counter-Reformation, since the Jesuits were preaching a type of Catholicism that was kind of favourable, majority of them converted.

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