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In the 1840s, most of the surviving Wyandot people were displaced to Kansas Indigenous territory through the US federal policy of forced Indian removal. Using the funds they received for their lands in Ohio, the Wyandot purchased 23,000 acres (93 km 2 ) of land for $46,080 in what is now Wyandotte County, Kansas from the Lenape.
In 1907, Lyda Conley, a descent of a Wyandot member, sued to prevent the sale of the Huron Indian Cemetery, a case which reached the Supreme Court.While Conley lost this case, and other cases brought by the members of the Wyandot Nation of Kansas to prevent the sale of the cemetery were unsuccessful, U.S. Congress, led by Charles Curtis (Kaw/Osage/Prairie Potawatomi), repealed the law ...
From an 1817 print. Tarhe (c. 1742–1818) was a leader of the Wyandot people in the Ohio Country.His nickname was "The Crane". [1] He fought American expansion into the region until the Northwestern Confederacy was defeated at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794.
The headquarters of the federally recognized Wyandotte Nation is in Wyandotte, Oklahoma, and their tribal jurisdictional area is in Ottawa County, Oklahoma. [1]Billy Friend is the elected Chief, currently serving a four-year term.
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Wyandot people (2 C, 16 P) Wyandotte Nation (1 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Wyandot" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total.
This category page lists notable citizens of the United States who state they have Wyandot ancestry. For people whose Wyandot ancestry has been independently verified, see Category:American people of Wyandot descent. For citizens of a Wyandot tribe, see Category:Wyandot people and its subcategories.
Nicholas Orontony (c. 1695–1750) was an 18th-century Wyandot leader who, in the years before the French and Indian War, tried to escape the domination of New France over Native people in the Detroit region by resettling in the Ohio country and forming an anti-French tribal coalition.