Wyandot Tribe

The Wyandotte name comes from Wendat, meaning islanders or dwellers on a peninsula, and the first known Wyandotte villages stood near present Montreal. War with the Iroquois ended in defeat in 1649, and of some twenty thousand Wyandotte in 1639, only about seventeen hundred survived by 1700. Treaties of 1795 and 1817 cut away most of their land in Ohio and Michigan, and an 1842 treaty ceded the rest. The 1867 reservation in Indian Territory was allotted to 241 tribal members by 1893, and the Wyandotte Nation's land base is centered around Wyandotte.

What the plaque says

Wyandot Tribe The Wyandot tribe after a bitter war with the Iroquois settled, about 1700, in northern Ohio. In 1843, under United States government authority, this tribe removed to northeastern Kansas. Local friction caused some Wyandot, in 1857, to leave Kansas and go to what is now north eastern Oklahoma. A treaty with the United States, made in 1867, enabled the remainder of the Wyandot to join their kinsmen in Oklahoma, where their tribal government was reorganized in 1871. This monument erected in final homeland of the Wyandot as a memorial to their outstanding contributions as citizens of the United States and the State of Oklahoma. Oklahoma Historical Society 1959

Where it stands

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