Wyandot

Examples

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• In this diaspora, the Wyandot lost much of the political and ceremonial complexity that had characterized their prosperous agricultural existence in Huronia.

  Academic text (1992)

• Wendat and Wyandot oral traditions were described by both Jesuit accounts and anthropologist Marius Barbeau, who interviewed Wendat and Wyandot elders in the early twentieth century.

  Academic text (2017)

• One could say, somewhat archly, that the Wyandot had now definitely entered the American mainstream.

  Academic text (1992)

• More than likely, this represents the initiative of a clan matron, one of those women central to the Wyandot political structure.

  Academic text (1992)

• Here again we find typical puritanical disapproval of the Wyandot simply amusing themselves in traditional ways in the spring of the year.

  Academic text (1992)

• Stewart, the first missionary, was seriously heeded by all the Wyandot when he preached sobriety, kindness, and honesty.

  Academic text (1992)

• Finley's buffalo feast and solemn feast provide evidence that the Ohio Wyandot had retained a substantial amount of their ancient Iroquoian ceremonial life.

  Academic text (1992)

• Following a strong religious impulse, he wandered northwest from Marietta into the Ohio Indian territory until he stumbled upon the Wyandot and found his missionary calling.

  Academic text (1992)

• A very modest Presbyterian mission had existed among the Sandusky Wyandot between 1803 and 1810, evidently dispersed by the traumatic events of the War of 1812.

  Academic text (1992)

• Finley lived with the Wyandot and shared their food and shelter.

Synonyms

N

Native American

vsWyandot

161 3.4

A person whose family lived in North or South America before Europeans arrived

is a member of one specific people from the Great Lakes region

Surface Forms

Etymology