Wyandot Nation



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Ancestral Homeland: St. Lawrence Valley, and Canada

Various Spellings: Wyandot, Wyandotte, Wiandot

Tribal Headquarters
Wyandotte Nation 64700 East Highway 60 Wyandotte, OK 74370 Phone: 1.918.678.2297 Fax: 1.918.678.2944


 * Wyandotte Nation Official Website

Brief Timeline

 * 1752: smallpox epedimic
 * 1832,1836, and 1842 Removed from Ohio
 * 1843: Wyandot removal to Kansas, They were the last Indian tribe to leave Ohio.
 * 1857: moved to Oklahoma
 * 1888 to 1890: land were allotted
 * 1959: Wyandot Tribe of Oklahoma terminated, Tribal membership 1,157, Tribal land (Acres) 94.36
 * 1978: regained federal recognition

When the Wyandot tribe lived in the Ohio and Michigan area they were under the jurisdiction of Piqua Agency 1824-30, Ohio Agency 1831-43, Saginaw Subagency and the Michigan Superintendency.

After removal to Kansas the tribe was under the jurisdiction of Wyandot Subagency 1843-51, Kansas Agency 1851-55, Shawnee Agency 1855-63, Delaware Agency 1863-69, Wyandot Agency 1870-72, The St. Louis Superintendency and the Central Superintendency.

Those living in Indian Territory were under the jurisdiction of Neosho Agency 1867-71, Quapaw Agency 1871-80, and the Central Superintendency.

Reservations
A track of land set aside for occupation and use by American Indians.

Additional References to the History of the Tribe
Additional details are given in John Swanton's The Indian Tribes of North America.

Ohio History Central article on the Wyandot Indians

Cemeteries
Bland Cemetery, Wyandotte, Oklahoma

Huron Indian Cemetery, Kansas City, Kansas, as surveyed in 1892

Rolls
1843 Muster Roll of Wyandot Indians who left Upper Sandusky, Ohio in 1843

1870 Tribal Roll of the Wyandot in Kansas and elsewhere.

1874 Voter List by clan

Treaties
1785-1843 -- See tribal web site for details.


 * 1785 January 21, at Fort McIntosh
 * 1789 January 9, at Fort Harmer
 * 1795 August 3, at Greenville
 * 1803August 7, at Vincennes, with the Eel River
 * 1805 July 4, at Fort Industry
 * 1807 November 17, at Detroit, with the Ottawa
 * 1808 November 25, at Brownstown, with the Chippewa, Ect.,
 * 1814 July 22, at Greenville
 * 1815 September 8, at Spring Wells
 * 1817 September 29, on the Miami
 * 1818
 * 1818
 * 1832 January 19, at St. Mary's
 * 1836 April 23,
 * 1842 March 17, at upper Sandusky
 * 1843 December 14, with the Delawares
 * 1850 April 1, at Washington
 * 1855 January 31, at Washington
 * 1867:February 3,with the Seneca, Mixed Seneca and Shwanee, Quapaw, Etc.,

Important Web Sites

 * Constitution of the Wayandotte Nation
 * Wyandotte Nation Official Website
 * Wyandot Nation Wikipedia