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The Wyandot subsequently fought on the side of the British in the War of 1812, disrupting the American supply line to the city of Detroit. Partly in response to the Wyandot siding with the British, the Wyandot were removed from their remaining villages along the Detroit River to a reservation on the Huron River in 1816.
Wyandot of Anderdon Nation, Michigan; Other. Sagard's Dictionary of Huron – The earliest and one of the most complete dictionaries of the Huron language; The Huron-Wendat Museum, Wendake, Quebec "The Feast of the Dead", Erik R. Seeman, Berfrois, August 2, 2011; History of the Huron
Some Wyandot moved to an area near Flat Rock, Michigan, then to Ohio, and Indian Territory, in Kansas and finally Oklahoma. Most of the Wyandot moved across the Detroit River to Canada and what is now Anderdon, Windsor, Ontario. Many of their descendants live there today. The name somewhat lives on as Wyandotte County, Kansas. [7]
In August 1999, the Wyandotte Nation joined the contemporary Wendat Confederacy, together with the Wyandot Nation of Kansas, Huron-Wendat Nation of Wendake (Quebec), and the Wyandot of Anderdon Nation in Michigan. The tribes pledged to provide mutual aid to each other in a spirit of peace, kinship, and unity. [16]
After the fort was established, Odawa (Ottawa) from Michilimackinac, and Wyandot (Huron) from Michilimackinac and the St. Joseph River migrated to Detroit and established palisaded villages. Groups of Miami, Ojibwe and later Potawatomi also migrated to the area. In 1705, Cadillac reported an Indigenous population at Detroit of 2,000.
The Michilimackinac area is the strait between Lakes Huron and Michigan (or, the area between Michigan's Upper and Lower Peninsulas) in the present-day United States. [3] Noted as a brilliant orator and a formidable strategist, Kondiaronk led the pro-French Petun and Huron of Michilimackinac against their traditional Iroquois enemies ...
At this time there were Huron, Seneca, and Wyandot Indian villages in the area. With the Erie Canal opening in 1825, many people, especially from New York, came to Michigan to settle. By 1828 the village had four stores, two saw mills, a wool carding mill, a flour mill, and 250 inhabitants - serving as a center mainly for farmers who lived in ...
HMCS Huron (DDG 281), an Iroquois-class destroyer active from 1972 to 2005; United States lightship Huron (LV-103), a lightvessel launched in 1920 and now a museum ship moored in Pine Grove Park; USS Huron (1861), a gunboat acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War; USS Huron (1875), an iron sloop-rigged screw steam gunboat