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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. In Canada, the Huron-Wendat Nation has two First Nations reserves at Wendake, Quebec. [3]
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.
Pages in category "Huron-Wendat Nation people" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Ludger Bastien; D.
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Historical Iroquoian people were the Five nations of the Iroquois or Haudenosaunee, Huron or Wendat, Petun, Neutral or Attawandaron, Erie people, Wenro, Susquehannock and the St. Lawrence Iroquoians. The Cherokee are also an Iroquoian-speaking people.
Unlike the Huron-Wendat in Quebec, the three Wendat groups in the U.S. trace their origin to the Tionontati (Petun/Tobacco), Wenro, and Neutral nations, [245] and to only one of the original Huron nations (the Attignawantan nation), rather to the Huron Confederacy as a whole. [253]
Although linguistics have equated with or seen as a dialect of the Iroquoian Wendat (Huron), Wyandot became so differentiated as to be considered a distinct language.This change appears to have happened sometime between the mid-18th century, when the Jesuit missionary Pierre Potier (1708–1781) documented the Petun dialect of Wendat in Canada, and the mid-nineteenth century.
Wyandot people, who have been called Wyandotte, Huron, Wendat and Quendat; Wyandot language, an Iroquoian language; Wyandot Nation of Kansas, an unrecognized tribe and nonprofit organization headquartered in Kansas City, United States