The Europeans have known about Algonquin since 1603, when Samuel de Champlain found them at a celebration of song and dance at Tadoussac after a resent victory over Iroquois in what is now eastern Quebec. The French had made an early alliance with the Algonquins allowing them to keep their early settlements in the new world. During this period the Algonquin and the Iroquois tribes were at war, this gave Champlain and his settlers a way to help the Algonquin people. In this encounter Champlain is remembered for facing off against a much larger group of Iroquois warriors with a small number of Algonquin people, introducing the Native Aboriginal people to the popular European invention of gun powder. The French had learned of the tension of the two tribes along with the warrior mentality and this would finally would teach the French settlers that war did not happen here for the consumption of land.