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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.
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 ...
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]
Calling all lighthouse aficionados and history buffs, Port Huron Museums is hosting a lighthouse conference. Port Huron Museums is the next host for the upcoming Michigan Lighthouse Alliance ...
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
Lauer joined Today in 1994, eventually becoming one of the hosts three years later. He was fired from the show in November 2017 after being accused of sexual misconduct. A female staffer claimed ...
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.