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.
Lake Huron is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. It is shared on the north and east by the Canadian province of Ontario and on the south and west by the U.S. state of Michigan. The name of
Wyandot people
…primarily the descendants of the Etionnontateronnon (Tionontati) and Wendat who historically lived near the southern shores of Georgian Bay, part of Lake Huron, in what is now south-central Ontario. They are closely related to other Iroquoian peoples from the Great Lakes region including the Haudenosaunee…
Lake Huron, Georgian Bay, and the frozen North Channel (top) seen from the International Space Station on April 20, 2018
View of Lake Huron from East Tawas State Park at the head of Saginaw Bay
Harrisville Beach on Lake Huron
View of rocky shore of Lake Huron from east of Port Dolomite, Michigan, in the upper peninsula