16 Facts About Wyandot people

The Wyandot are Iroquoian Indigenous peoples of North America who emerged as a confederacy of tribes around the north shore of Lake Ontario with their original homeland extending to Georgian Bay of Lake Huron and Lake Simcoe in Ontario, Canada and occupying some territory around the western part of the lake.

However, the Wyandot people have connections to the Wendat-Huron through their lineage from the Attignawantan, the founding tribe of the Huron.

Huron Range spanned the region from downriver of the source of the St Lawrence River, along with three-quarters of the northern shore of Lake Ontario, to the territory of the related Neutral Wyandot people, extending north from both ends to wrap around Georgian Bay.

Wyandot people'storians believe the disease spread from the children to the Huron and other nations, often through contact with traders.

The Wyandot people gained the high ground and surrounded Boone's forces.

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Also in late 1782, the Wyandot people joined forces with Shawnee, Seneca, and Lenape in an unsuccessful siege of Fort Henry on the Ohio River.

In 1807, the Wyandot joined three other tribes – the Odawa, Potawatomi, and Ojibwe people – in signing the Treaty of Detroit, which resulted in a major land cession to the United States.

The Lenape had been grateful for the hospitality which the Wyandot people had given them in Ohio, as the Lenape had been forced to move west under pressure from Anglo-European colonists.

The Wyandot people acquired a more-or-less square parcel north and west of the junction of the Kansas River and the Missouri River.

In June 1853, Big Turtle, a Wyandot people chief, wrote to the Ohio State Journal regarding the current condition of his tribe.

Wyandot people said that the thrift of the Wyandot exceeded that of any tribe north of the Arkansas line.

The Wyandot people offered some of the floating sections of land for sale on the same day at $800.

Wyandot people was elected by Wyandot, white traders, and outside interests who wished to preempt the federal government's organization of the territory and to benefit from the settlement of Kansas by white settlers.

An October 1855 article in The New York Times reported that the Wyandot people were free and without the restrictions placed on other tribes.

Since the mid-century, the Wyandot people pursued claims in the United States because of having lost lands and not been fully compensated by the government.

The Wyandot people filed a land claim for compensation due to the forced sale of their land in the Ohio region to the federal government under the 1830 Indian Removal Act, which forced Native Americans to move west of the Mississippi River to an area designated as Indian Territory.