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“This aquifer, they estimate, contains eight Lake Eries of water, and they have already nearly depleted one. It’s like draining the Great Lakes, but we don’t see it.”

From The New Yorker • Dec. 11, 2016

The Eries occupied the territory just south of Lake Erie, while the Neuter or Neutral towns lay on the north side of the lake—stretching up perhaps near to Niagara Falls.

From The Niagara River by Hulbert, Archer Butler

To the south of Lake Erie rose the smoke of the fires of the Eries, generally translated "Cats," but, properly speaking, the "Raccoons."

From Canada by Bourinot, John George, Sir

It is not certain that the Eries were of the Iroquois family.

From The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Parkman, Francis

With the singular laugh, which was between a hiss and a roar, the Spirit replied by asking: "How know ye that I have delivered you into the toils of your fierce enemies, the Eries?"

From Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 by Jones, James Athearn