 Historians noted the name closely resembled that recorded for the "Eriechronon" or "Erielhonan", commonly known as the Erie tribe, another Iroquoian-speaking people based near the Great Lakes.This Iroquoian people had been driven away from the southern shore of Lake Erie in 1654 by the powerful Iroquois Five Nations, who were seeking more hunting grounds.The anthropologist Martin Smith theorized some remnants of the tribe migrated to Virginia after the wars (1986