Wyandot people
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The Wyandot people are an Indigenous people who emerged in the Great Lakes region in the mid-17th century. The Wyandot developed through a process of ethnogenesis during the Beaver Wars, when refugees
Wyandot moccasins, c. 1880, in the collection of the Bata Shoe Museum
William Walker (1800–1874), a leader of the Wyandot people and a prominent citizen of early-day Kansas.
Wendat people
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The Wendat people are the peoples of the Wendat confederacy in present-day southern Ontario, which was forcibly disbanded in the 1650s but reestablished in 1999. The Wendat Confederacy originally cons
Wyandot people
…mid-17th century. The Wyandot developed through a process of ethnogenesis during the Beaver Wars, when refugees from the Etionnontateronnon (Petun) and Wendat (Huron) coalesced following their dispersal by the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois). The Petun/Wendat relocated several times until settling at Michilimackinac in 1671…
Le Grand Voyage du Pays des Hurons, Gabriel Sagard, 1632
Trek of Wendat diaspora
Huron Hunters Camping at the Big Rock of Lake Lagon, by Cornelius Krieghoff, 1862