I recently spent about a week on the road, vacation time, with my wife, my brother and my sister-in-law. We traveled to Quebec City where we spent a few days enjoying the history and cuisine of the region. I took the opportunity to locate a nearby reservation, the Huron-Wendake reserve. The have a very nice little interpretation center ($12 per person) where one gets a good glimpse of how life was in the longhouse of 400 years ago. I learned something there which surprised me. I was always under the impression that the Huron, as a nation and a culture, were gone, decimated and destroyed by their arch enemies, the Iroquois. Wrong! About 300 Huron escaped the massacres and moved far from Huronia to the woodlands of Lower Canada (Quebec) where over the centuries, they have grown to a few thousand. The reserve was very well maintained, sporting many good businesses, their own police force and beautiful homes. They are doing well and I am sure would make an excellent model for many of the reserves across Canada which are not fortunate. This short side-trip to me was the highlight of my tour. At one point, as the Huron guide was leading the group about, I chuckled to myself as he explained to some out of country visitor why some of the people in photos on site "didn't look Indian", which pretty much describes me and 80% of my family members. He gave a rather good, albeit simplified explanation of the quantum of blood theory and mixed marriages. As I said, I chuckled to myself wondering what these Europeans would think if they knew that haof the people in the group they were part of, were Indigenous too.