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WYANDOT , or See also:HuRoN (q.v.), a tribe of N . See also:American See also:Indians of Iroquoian stock . When first met by the See also:French See also:early in the 17th See also:century, the Wyandots lived between Georgian See also:Bay and See also:Lake See also:Simcoe, See also:Ontario . They were then estimated at about ro,000, scattered over twenty villages . They were continually the victims of raids on the See also:part of their neighbours the Iroquoian See also:league of six nations and the See also:Sioux, being driven from See also:place to place, and a dispersal in 165o resulted in one See also:section settling in See also:Quebec, while others found their way to See also:Ohio, where they fought for the See also:English in the See also:Wars of See also:Independence and 1812 . By a treaty made in 1817 the latter section was granted territory in Ohio and See also:Michigan, but the larger part of this was sold in 1819 . In 1842 they migrated to See also:Kansas . In 1855 many became citizens, the See also:remainder being in 1867 removed to a See also:reservation (now N.E . See also:Oklahoma), numbering about 400 in 1905 . The See also:Hurons at Lorette, in Quebec, also number about 400 . See Handbook of American Indians, ed . F . W . See also:Hodge (See also:Washington, 1907), S.V . |
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