WYANDOT  , or

HuRoN (q.v.), a tribe of N . American Indians of Iroquoian stock . When first met by the French early in the 17th century, the Wyandots lived between Georgian Bay and Lake Simcoe, Ontario . They were then estimated at about ro,000, scattered over twenty villages . They were continually the victims of raids on the part of their neighbours the Iroquoian league of six nations and the Sioux, being driven from place to place, and a dispersal in 165o resulted in one section settling in Quebec, while others found their way to Ohio, where they fought for the English in the Wars of Independence and 1812 . By a treaty made in 1817 the latter section was granted territory in Ohio and Michigan, but the larger part of this was sold in 1819 . In 1842 they migrated to Kansas . In 1855 many became citizens, the remainder being in 1867 removed to a reservation (now N.E . Oklahoma), numbering about 400 in 1905 . The Hurons at Lorette, in Quebec, also number about 400 . See Handbook of American Indians, ed . F .

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Hodge (Washington, 1907), S.V .