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8 unusual facts about Wyandot people


Billy Wirth

Wirth was born in New York City to a lawyer father and an artist mother who may have been of part Huron Native American ancestry.

Clintonville, Columbus, Ohio

The community of Clintonville developed as the center of Clinton Township (named for the U.S. Vice President George Clinton), part of the land grants given to Continental Army soldiers in lieu of pensions in what used to be Wyandotte Indian territory.

Dunquat

Dunquat (Petawontakas, Dunquad, Daunghquat; Delaware name, Pomoacan), known as the Half-King of the Wyandot people, sided with the Kingdom of Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War.

François-Joseph Bressani

From there, he received permission to penetrate the interior to Huron country.

Guyandot

Guyandot or Guyandotte are alternate spellings of Wyandot, a group of native North Americans also known as the Hurons.

Jim Harkema

An official chapter of the EMU Alumni Association, the Huron Restoration Chapter, seeks to bring back the name and claims to have the support of Chief Leaford Bearskin of the Wyandot Tribe of Oklahoma and former Grand Chief Max Gros-Louis of the Huron-Wendat Nation of Quebec.

Roundhead Township, Hardin County, Ohio

The only Roundhead Township statewide, it is named for Wyandot chief Roundhead, who inhabited the area in the early 19th century.

Sikorsky CH-54 Tarhe

It is named after Tarhe (whose nickname was "The Crane"), an 18th-century chief of the Wyandot Indian tribe.


Auoindaon

Auoindaon was the native chief of the Wyandot (Huron) at Quieunonascaranas, a settlement in Wendake near modern-day Midland, Ontario.

Buffalo, West Virginia

Historic tribes such as the Huron, from the Great Lakes region, and the Conoy (also spelled Conois and Kanawha) were driven out of the central valley by Iroquois' invading from their base in present-day western New York.

Donnacona, Quebec

However, the Huron Chieftain never lived in this area, but rather further east in Stadacona.

Huron Carol

Brébeuf wrote the lyrics in the native language of the Huron/Wendat people; the song's original Huron title is "Jesous Ahatonhia" ("Jesus, he is born").

Indian removals in Indiana

Other minor tribes, mostly Algonquian speaking, including the Wea, Lenape, Piankeshaw, Wyandott, and the Kickapoo, were scattered across the state.

James Burnett, Lord Monboddo

Monboddo studied languages of peoples colonised by Europeans, including those of the Carib, Eskimo, Huron, Algonquian, Peruvian (Quechua?) and Tahitian peoples.

Joseph de La Roche Daillon

Joseph de La Roche Daillon (d. 1656, Paris) was a French Catholic missionary to the Huron Indians and a Franciscan Récollet priest.

Old Sandwich Town

The area was initially inhabited by various Aboriginal nations including the Chippewas, Ottawas, Potowatomis and Wyandots.

Paul Ragueneau

Upon arriving in Quebec, he was almost immediately sent to the Huron mission where he worked under the instruction of Fathers Jean de Brébeuf and Jérôme Lalemant for eight years.

Sagamite

Sagamité was used in ceremonies to celebrate welcomed guests by tribes such as the Peoria, Huron, Osage, and early Caddo tribes of Arkansas.

Treaty of Fort Niagara

The 1764 Treaty of Fort Niagara was signed by Sir William Johnson for The Crown and 24 Nations from the Six Nations, Seneca, Wyandot of Detroit, Menominee, Algonquin, Nipissing, Ojibwa, Mississaugas, and others who were part of the Seven Nations of Canada and the Western Lakes Confederacy.


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