Wyandotte Nation
Oklahoma
You are in the heart of the Wyandotte Nation, in the far northeastern corner of Oklahoma. The Wyandot trace their roots to the Wendat peoples of the Saint Lawrence and Great Lakes region, who were once part of a large confederacy. War with the Iroquois drove them west, and by the seventeen hundreds they had villages around Upper Sandusky in Ohio.
They were among the last tribes forced out of Ohio. In July of eighteen forty-three, hundreds of Wyandot people carried what they could, walked to Cincinnati, and boarded steamboats for Kansas. Promised land there never materialized, so they bought acreage from the Delaware near present-day Kansas City.
In eighteen sixty-seven they were removed again, to a reservation here in Indian Territory. The Wyandotte Nation reorganized in nineteen thirty-seven and remains a sovereign tribal government on this ground today.
