A fashionable Algonquin Indian couple, as drawn by a member of Samuel de Champlain's expedition in 1613. Lake Champlain has been home to humanity for 8000 years.
Archeologists keep digging up the remains of a village here, a jawbone there.
On the West bank, were the Iroquois and on the East, the Algonquins. Each nation claimed the lake in the name of their ancestors, and anyone caught on those waters by an opposing war canoe, was in for some serious stress. Recently, there has been a tendency for politically correct American historians to re-write the unpleasant portions of its Indian history. Noble they were. Magnificent they were.