   Aboriginal Settlement   The introduction of maize, or corn,
1,400 years ago led to the adoption of farming and of permanent
settlement. By 1000 CE Iroquoian speaking peoples had moved into
the region of present-day Toronto, and by 1300 had established
villages there. By 1400 Iroquoian peoples lived in fortified
villages that typically included longhouses and stockades that
overlooked fields of crops.  For a variety of reasons, including
better soil and warfare with the Haudenosaunee (Five Nations
Iroquois) of New York State, Iroquoians in the Toronto area
began to slowly move north to join the Wendat (Huron)
Confederacy in Huronia. In 1650 intertribal warfare and the
diseases brought by Europeans led to the collapse and dispersal
of the Wendat Confederacy. The Haudenosaunee established a
series of settlements in Ontario, including two Seneca villages
in present-day Toronto.  Around this time Algonkian speakers
began to move south from the Canadian Shield into the Toronto
area. Through a process of negotiat