Last Wyandots leave Ohio on the Miami and Erie Canal illustration   Save
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Description: The last Wyandots leave Ohio on the Miami and Erie Canal. From "Pathways of Progress, A Short History of Ohio" by David Bowman, 1943. The Wyandot Indians originally lived in southern Ontario. They were also called Hurons. But they called themselves "wendat" which in time became "Wyandot" or "Wyandotte." They were related to the Iroquois Indians, but in the years before European settlement, the Iroquois Confederacy attacked them and drove them from their homeland. Some came to live in northern Ohio. They built their main villages in Wyandot, Marion, and Crawford Counties, but they lived across northern Ohio and as far south as Ross County. During the American Revolution, the Wyandots fought for the British against the Americans, who they saw as encroaching on their land. When the British surrendered, the Indians were left to fight the Americans on their own. General Anthony Wayne finally defeated the Wyandots and other Ohio Indians at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794. They surrendered most of their lands in Ohio with the signing of the Treaty of Greeneville. In 1842, the Wyandots gave up their claim to their reservation at Upper Sandusky. In 1843 the United States government sent the Indians off to a reservation in Kansas. They were the last Indian tribe to leave Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04018
Subjects: American Indians in Ohio; Wyandot Indians--History; American Indian history and society
Places: Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Wyandot County (Ohio)