Term: Pelée
Definition: an island in western Lake Erie, near the Ontario shore; the Ottawa took refuge on it during the Iroquois wars of the mid-17th century.
[Source: Perrot, Nicolas. Ch. 15 of "Mémoire sur les moeurs, coustumes et religion des sauvages de l'Amérique Septentrionale" at Turning Points in Wis. History (www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/)]