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  WYANDOT COUNTY, OHIO - 1884 HISTORY - CHAPTER V - EARLY SETTLEMENTS
Hence when it was agreed that the principal reservation of the Wyandots should have Fort Ferree at Upper Sandusky for its center, the central -and greater portion of the present county was reserved to its aboriginal owners.
The small Wyandot reserve at the Big Spring, and the Delaware reserve lying south east of the reservation first mentioned, also encroached upon the limits of the county as now formed.
The pioneers had many discomforts to endure, and some dangers to enwhen Wyandot County was settled, the danger of Indian r ons ad passed away forever, but a vaguely defined apprehension existed in the minds of not a few of the first settlers, that they were not entirely secure in their forest homes.
www.heritagepursuit.com /Wyandot/WyCh5.htm   (5347 words)

  
 Wyandot - MSN Encarta
The Wyandot and Huron are indigenous peoples of North America known in their native language as the Wendat.
The Wyandot County Clerk of Court office is one of...
In 1842 the Wyandot sold their Michigan and Ohio lands and moved to Kansas; in 1867 they were placed on a reservation in Oklahoma where they still live.
encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761573142   (205 words)

  
 Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma
Under the new treaty, concluded between the Wyandot delegation and the government on April 1, 1850, the United States agreed to pay the Wyandots $185,000 for their claim on 148,000 acres of public domain, $85,000 in cash, and $100,000 to be invested in United States securities bearing a 5 percent interest.
On February 11, 1846, former governor of Ohio, T. Bartley, the Wyandot legal counsel, had agreed to prosecute their claim to the land or a monetary settlement, in return for 20 percent of whatever could be recovered from the government.
The Wyandots approved the treaty on May 23 with a few minor amendments by a vote of sixty-three to twenty, but Subagent Moseley reported that a majority of the Indians were opposed to the treaty.
www.wyandotte-nation.org /history/misc_works/wyandot_subagency/mining_company.html   (4179 words)

  
 Huron
The Kansas Wyandot, organized in 1959 from the "absentee" or "citizen" Wyandot, are recognized by Kansas and have applied for federal status.
In 1738 Orontony (Nicholas), a Detroit Wyandot chief, refused to participate in a raid against the Cherokee (British allies) south of the Ohio River.
During the summer of 1810, the Wyandot chief Leatherlips was assassinated by Roundhead, a Detroit Wyandot chief loyal to Tecumseh.
www.tolatsga.org /hur.html   (12302 words)

  
 USS Wyandot
Wyandot departed Pearl Harbor on 26 January 1945 and proceeded thence via Eniwetok to Tacloban where she joined the forces massing for the assault on Okinawa.
Wyandot, her mission at Okinawa completed, sailed for the west coast of the United States, via Pearl Harbor, for permanent repairs and reached the Naval Dry Docks at Terminal Island, San Pedro, Calif., on 6 June.
Early in 1951, Wyandot was selected to participate in Operation "Bluejay"—transporting construction materials to the northern part of Greenland—and was busy in that mission from May to September of that year.
www.multied.com /navy/AKA/Wyandot.html   (947 words)

  
 OHTF Wyandot County
Wyandot County has received the following financial assistance from the Ohio Housing Trust Fund.
Wyandot County Council on Aging received $160,000 for Essex Place North; it involves the new construction of one single-story building to be located in Sycamore.
The project is located southeast of the intersection of State Routes 53 and 67 in Wyandot County (1996).
www.odod.state.oh.us /cdd/htf/counties/wyandot.htm   (1299 words)

  
 Wyandot, Inc. - Vanguard GPS Business Analytics and Business Intelligence
Wyandot’s ERP systems met their needs from a manufacturing, inventory, and financial perspective, but offered only limited functionality for sales analysis.
Wyandot licensed and implemented GPS in 1998, and has successfully automated the entire sales reporting and analysis function and moved away from paper reports and onto the GPS solution.
Wyandot is able to monitor sales activity by product, brand, customer, or sales representative, and readily identify major trends, issues, or emerging opportunities.
www.2020software.com /products/Vanguard_GPS_Wyandot__Inc.asp   (550 words)

  
 Wyandot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This name may have been applied to the Wyandot people either from the French huron (peasant), because the Wyandot were an agricultural people, growing corn and sunflowers; or, according to Jesuit Father Gabriel Lallemant, the name referred to a hure, the rough-haired head of wild boars.
In the late 18th century, the Wyandot obtained a position of symbolic importance as the "uncles" to the Ohio Country tribes, who waged war against the United States in the 1790s such as at the Big Bottom Massacre.
The historian Georges Sioui is a Wyandot from a family active in the local politics of Wendake; Bruce Trigger is a noted scholar in Wyandot studies and has been adopted as an honorary Wyandot.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wyandot   (1149 words)

  
 Wyandot Nation of Kansas Website
The Wyandot Nation of Kansas is currently petitioning the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs for federal recognition and was incorporated in 1959.
The Wyandot Nation of Kansas is dedicated to the preservation of Wyandot history and culture and the preservation, protection, restoration and maintenance of the Huron Indian Cemetery in Kansas City, Kansas.
The Wendat Confederacy was reaffirmed on August 27, 1999 in Midland Ontario by the leaders of the Wyandot Nation of Kansas, Wyandott Nation of Oklahoma, Wyandotte Nation of Anderdon and the Huron Wendat of Wendake.
www.wyandot.org   (831 words)

  
 Wyandot
Within a short time, the ship's force, aided by the salvage experts of the repair unit, had made the necessary temporary repairs; Wyandot consequently returned to her place off the beaches of Okinawa and continued discharging ammunition, vehicles, gasoline, provisions, and special equipment earmarked for the American 10th Army on Okinawa.
Wyandot again deployed to the Mediterranean and Caribbean areas between 1953 and 1955, winning the coveted Battle Efficiency Award for 1955.
Later reclassified as T-AK-283, Wyandot served with MSTS, Atlantic, through the 1960's and was shifted to MSTS' successor organization, the Military Sealift Command (MSC) by October 1973, and to MSC, Pacific, by 1 July 1974.
www.history.navy.mil /danfs/w11/wyandot.htm   (966 words)

  
 Wyandot Popcorn Museum History & Origin
The creation of the Wyandot Popcorn Museum occurred as a byproduct of research that was done in the early 1970's and 1980's on the history of the Wyandot Popcorn Company and the popcorn industry.
Wyandot, Inc. was in the process of adding office space at their snack plant at 135 Wyandot Avenue, Marion, OH.
The Wyandot Popcorn Museum also acquired a volume tester that was designed and created by the Cracker Jack Company in 1931 to determine the expansion of their popcorn.
www.wyandotpopcornmus.com /hmuseum.htm   (1423 words)

  
 Wyandotte County - KS-Cyclopedia - 1912
The city of Wyandotte (now forming a part of Kansas City, Kan.) was started by the Wyandots soon after they located on the reservation in 1843, by the erection of a company store and a cabin for the United States agency.
In 1843 occurred a notable event in the marriage of Hiram N. Northrup and Margaret Clark, daughter of the Wyandot chief.
In 1843 their Methodist missionary preached against emancipation, and four years later became active in the organization of a "Church South" among them, a church which was supported by the most pronounced pro-slavery men.
skyways.lib.ks.us /genweb/archives/1912/w/wyandotte_county.html   (1766 words)

  
 Wyandot
At the time of the first contact in the 1500's, the tribe was locked in a war of extermination with the Iroquois Tribes of Five Nations, which led to their defeat in in 1649.
Because of their treaties with them, the Wyandot and many of the tribes sided with the British in the American Revolution, but their alliances were divided in the War of 1812.
The Senecas, remembering the Wyandot's kindness in their time of need, assigning the emigrants 33,000 acres across the north side of the Seneca reservation in the Quapaw Agency Lands, where many of their descendants live today.
www.rootsweb.ancestry.com /~itquapaw/seneca/wyandot.html   (577 words)

  
 WYANDOT COUNTY, OHIO - 1884 HISTORY - CHAPTER I - CRANE TOWNSHIP
Wyandot County was erected in February, 1845, and soon after Upper Sandusky was chosen as the county seat.
Taking Wyandot and Sandusky avenues as the divisible lines, the population of the town, at the date above mentioned, was ascertained by actual enumeration to be as follows: Northeast quarter, 270; northwest quarter, 63; southeast quarter, 153; southwest quarter, 200.
He was a Wyandot Indian, and the only one left of a once numerous tribe, that two years before, had emigrated to Kansas; or rather after purchase of the reservation here, was quartered there by the Government.
www.heritagepursuit.com /Wyandot/WCrane.htm   (20621 words)

  
 Wyandot (AKA-92)
Wyandot (AKA-92) was laid down on 6 May 1944 under a Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1192) at Oakland, Calif., by the Moore Dry Dock Co.; launched on 28 June 1944; acquired by the Navy and simultaneously commissioned on 30 September 1944 Comdr.
Over the next two years, Wyandot operated out of Norfolk and made her first Mediterranean deployment, visiting ports in Italy and French Morocco; the island of Crete; Great Britain, Cuba; Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands; Haiti; Newfoundland; Bermuda; Nova Scotia; the Panama Canal Zone; and Curacso, Netherlands West Indies.
Early in 1951, Wyandot was selected to participate in Operation "Bluejay" (transporting construction materials to the northern part of Greenland) and was busy in that mission from May to September of that year.
www.hazegray.org /danfs/amphib/aka92.htm   (944 words)

  
 Wyandotte.net - The Official City of Wyandotte Web - Wyandotte, Michigan
The Wyandot villages stretched from Georgian Bay in Canada, south along Lake Huron and Lake Erie, all the way east to Niagara, New York.
The Wyandots were removed to Kansas, and twenty years later they were forced to go to Oklahoma.
"The Wyandots were a peaceful, hardworking people looking only to continue their way of life without the threat of aggressions from outside forces.
www.wyandotte.net /community-extras/historicalstuff/wyandots.htm   (868 words)

  
 Wyandot Lifestyle-Clothing
Even so, the costime varied with the season and changed somewhat from the ceremonial to the day-to-day dress and also had to be adjusted for the hunt or the war path.
Physically, the Wyandot was typically slender and wiry, capable of traveling great distances but was not usually of the great stature or muscular physique of the Andastes for example.
Wyandots and other Iroquoians used feathers from the wild turkey, with now and then a hawk or eagle feather.
www.wyandot.org /wylife.html   (945 words)

  
 Wyandot County, Ohio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wyandot County is located in the state of Ohio, United States.
Its name comes from the Wyandot Indians and is variously translated from their language as "around the plains" and "dwellers on the peninsula".
About 3.80% of families and 5.50% of the population were below the poverty line, including 5.20% of those under age 18 and 5.10% of those age 65 or over.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wyandot_County,_Ohio   (486 words)

  
 Wyandot Indian Tribe
These Little People come and go through the "living rock," but the Wyandot must go to it by way of a great underground city where they were once hidden while the works of the world were being restored after destruction in a war between two brothers who were gods.
If it turns out that there is any reliance to be placed in the traditions of the Wyandot, they were found in their historic seat about one hundred and five years from the time they were first seen by the French at Montreal in 1535.
The Wyandot came to Kansas from Upper Sandusky, Ohio, in the summer of 1843.
www.nanations.com /wyandot/history.htm   (2909 words)

  
 About Us — Wyandot County Extension
The Wyandot Regional Planning Commission was formed in 1969 through a cooperative agreement between the Wyandot County Commissioners and the township trustees and the planning commissions of municipalities.
The commissioners of Wyandot County are granted this authority by the State of Ohio (ORC 711) and delegate this authority to the Wyandot Regional Planning Commission.
The Wyandot Regional Planning Commission is made up of nine at-large representatives from the townships, a representative from the Board of Commissioners, a County Extension Educator, a representative from the Public Health Commissioner, Soil and Water and County Engineer's office.
wyandot.osu.edu /business_economics   (406 words)

  
 Search: Wyandot - Windstream
Wyandot tribe was anciently divided into twelve clans, or gentes.
Wyandot Lake to the Columbus Zoo in 2006.
Modern Wyandots and Hurons emerged in the 17th...
search.windstream.net /_1_S7IUGR02JWW36N__wind.main/search/web/Wyandot   (303 words)

  
 Community Development — Wyandot County Extension
Leadership Wyandot County is designed to help people become effective leaders in order to enhance the social and economic well being of our community.
Leadership Wyandot County is intended to create a network of active leaders who can share ideas and procedures as they work on a variety of issues.
Leadership Wyandot County is an intensive, demanding, rewarding, learning experience.  Participants are expected to attend sessions and to be active participants responsible for their own learning.
wyandot-cms.ag.ohio-state.edu /community_development   (286 words)

  
 Wyandot Indians - Ohio History Central - A product of the Ohio Historical Society
They built their main villages in Wyandot, Marion, and Crawford Counties, but they lived across northern Ohio and as far south as Ross County.
The Wyandots were allies of the French until British traders moved into the Ohio Country circa 1740.
He was born in 1837 in northwest Ohio and moved to the Columbus area with his family when most of his tribe was displaced to Kansas and later to Oklahoma.
www.ohiohistorycentral.org /entry.php?rec=646   (592 words)

  
 The Ultimate Wyandot - American History Information Guide and Reference
It is this group that became commonly known to English speakers as "Wyandots" (notably in James Fenimore Cooper's novel Wyandotte, published in 1843).
In the late 18th century, the Wyandots obtained a position of symbolic importance as the "uncles", or senior members, of the Wabash Confederacy, which waged war against the United States in the 1790s.
Some Wyandot of the Wyandot Nation of Anderdon still live in southern Ontario and Michigan.
www.historymania.com /american_history/Huron   (991 words)

  
 CAC Civil War Newspaper Letter Index
Wyandot Democratic Union- May 1, 1862 (Shiloh casualties) pg.
Wyandot Democratic Union: September 11, 1862 (Second Bull Run casualties) pg.
Wyandot Pioneer- April 25, 1862 (Shiloh casualties) pg.
www.bgsu.edu /colleges/library/cac/ltrinxwya.html   (732 words)

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