WYANDOT INDIANS

WYANDOT ARE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF NORTH AMERICA AND ARE OF THE INDIGENOUS, TO THE IROQUOIS FAMILY CALLED WENDAT. DURING PREHISTORIC TIMES THEY LIVED IN LAKE ONTARIO AREA BEFORE MIGRATING TO GEORGIAN BAY. THEIR TOTAL POPULATION WAS 8000 FOLKS. IN 1615 THEY ENCOUNTERED SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN. THEY EMERGED FROM THE REMNANTS OF TWO EARLIER GROUPS. HURON CONFEDERACY CALLED THE PETUN OT TOBACCO PEOPLE BY THE FRENCH. THEY WERE LOCATED IN THE SOUTHEASTERN PART OF WHAT IS NOW THE PROVENCE OF ONTARIO. THEY GOT EPIDEMIC DISEASES AFTER 1634 AND WERE DISPERSED BY WAR FROM NEIGHBORING TRIBES.


TODAY THE WYANDAT HAVE A RESERVE IN QUEBEC. THEY HAVE THREE MAJOR SETTLEMENTS AND ARE INDEPENDENTLY GOVERNED. SOME OF THEM LIVE IN NORTHERN OHIO. THEY WERE FRIENDS OF THE SHAWNEES. OTHER TRIBES COULD BE OTHER FRIENDS ONE DAY AND ENEMIES THE NEXT. THEY ALLIED WITH THE FRENCH AROUND 1740 A.D. THE FRENCH PUSHED THE BRITISH OUT OF OHIO AND THEY WERE ALLIES WITH THE WYANDAT AGAIN. MANY FRENCH TRADING POSTS BECAME BRITISH POSTS AND THE OHIO, INDIANS BANDED TOGETHER TO FIGHT THE BRITISH AGAINST THE AMERICANS. THE BRITISH FINALLY SURRENDERED, THE INDIANS FOUGHT THE AMERICANS. THEY WERE FIERCE WARRIORS AND ONE OF THEIR COLONELS WAS BURNED AT THE STAKE.

IN 1794 GENERAL ANTHONY WAYNE DEFEATED THE WYANDOTS AND OTHER OHIO INDIANS. THEY SURRENDERED THEIR LANDS IN OHIO WITH THE SIGNING OF A TREATY. IN 1843 THEY WERE SENT TO A RESERVATION IN KANSAS. THE HURONS HAD BUILT UP A POWERFUL TRADING ENTERPRISE AND WERE MIDDLEMEN BETWEEN THE NORTHERN TRIBES AND THE FRENCH. IT WAS DESTROYED BY THE IROQUOIS IN 1650. THEY DID PLANT CROPS OF CORN, BEANS, AND PUMPKINS. THE HURON-WYANDAT LANGUAGE IS EXTINCT. SOME OF THE WYANDATS STILL LIVE OUTSIDE URBAN QUEBEC. THEY HAVE LIVED THERE FOR OVER 300 YEARS.7
























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