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The Wyandot people (also Wyandotte, Wendat, Waⁿdát, or Huron) [2] are an Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands of the present-day United States and Canada. Their Wyandot language belongs to the Iroquoian language family .
Wendat or Huron was the spoken language of the Huron-Wendat Nation in Quebec, Canada and some parts of Oklahoma in the United States, and it was traditionally spoken by Wyandot, Wyandotte or Huron people. [9] The language was closely related to the Iroquois language.
For decades, the Huron Cemetery (also known as Huron Park Cemetery, and now formally known as the Wyandot National Burying Ground) was a source of controversy between the Wyandotte Nation and individual Wyandot descendants in Kansas. The former wanted to sell the property for redevelopment.
Kondiaronk's signature on the Great Peace of Montreal for the Huron-Wyandot. Kondiaronk (c. 1625 –1701) [1] (Gaspar Soiaga, Souojas, Sastaretsi), known as Le Rat (The Rat), was Chief of the Native American Wendat people at Michilimackinac in New France.
Pierre-Joseph-Marie Chaumonot (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ ʒozɛf maʁi ʃomɔno]; aka Joseph Marie Chaumonot) (March 9, 1611 – February 21, 1693) was a French priest and Jesuit missionary who learned and documented the language of the Wyandot people, also known as the Huron.
The Wyandot (also called Huron) and Erie people, both Iroquoian peoples, also built longhouses, as did the Algonquian peoples, such as the Lenni Lenape, who lived from western New England in Connecticut, along the lower Hudson River, and along the Delaware River and both sides of the Delaware Bay.
Huron people, who have been called Wyandotte, Wyandot, Wendat and Quendat; Huron language, an Iroquoian language; Huron-Wendat Nation, or Huron-Wendat First Nation, or Nation Huronne-Wendat; Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi, or Huron Potawatomi, based in Calhoun County, Michigan
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the sale of the cemetery were unsuccessful, U.S. Congress, led by Charles Curtis (Kaw/Osage/Prairie Potawatomi), repealed the law ...