Tinawatawa

Tinawatawa, also called Quinaouatoua or Tinaouataoua, was an Iroquois village of the Seneca people on the western end of the Niagara corridor, described as "a fertile flat belt of land stretching from western New York to the head waters of the Thames River".

[a] One theory is that it was east[1][3] or northeast of present-day Westover, Ontario, on the north side of Spencer Creek[2] and in Beverly Swamp,[1][4] which was a winter hunting grounds site.

[1] It may have been in current day West Flamborough along a high ground trail that is now Regional Road 97.

The Lower Great Lakes and Huronia "region was a multicultural landscape composed of conquerors, refugees and dispersed peoples."

[3] The original five nations of the Iroquois Confederacy reused former settlements in Southern Ontario, including Tinawatawa, also called Quinaouotuan and Tinaouatoua, or Otinawatawa by historian Francis Parkman.