page_title: Wyandot people
hierarchical_section_title: Wyandot people
caption_attribution_description: English: Exhibit in the Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. This item is old enough so that its design is in the public domain. The museum permitted photography without restriction.
context_page_description: The Wyandot people or Wendat, also called the Huron Nation and Huron people, are Iroquoian-speaking peoples of North America who emerged as a tribe around the north shore of Lake Ontario.
  Today, numerous Wyandot people in the United States are enrolled members of Wyandotte Nation, the federally recognized tribe headquartered in Wyandotte, Oklahoma.
  In Canada, the Wyandot have a First Nations reserve in Quebec.
  By the 15th century, the precontact Wyandot had settled in the large area from the north shores of most of present-day Lake Ontario, northwards up to the southeastern shores of Georgian Bay. From this homeland, they encountered the French explorer Samuel de Champlain in 1615. They historically spoke the Wyandot language, a Northern Iroquoian language. They were believed to number more than 30,000 at the time of European contact in the 1610s to 1620s.
  In the late 17th century, the Huron Confederacy merged with the Tionontati nation. This may originally have been a splinter colony of the Huron, to their west to form the historical Wyandot.
context_section_description: The Wyandot people or Wendat, also called the Huron Nation and Huron people, are Iroquoian-speaking peoples of North America who emerged as a tribe around the north shore of Lake Ontario. 
  Today, numerous Wyandot people in the United States are enrolled members of Wyandotte Nation, the federally recognized tribe headquartered in Wyandotte, Oklahoma.
  In Canada, the Wyandot have a First Nations reserve in Quebec. 
  By the 15th century, the precontact Wyandot had settled in the large area from the north shores of most of present-day Lake Ontario, northwards up to the southeastern shores of Georgian Bay. From this homeland, they encountered the French explorer Samuel de Champlain in 1615. They historically spoke the Wyandot language, a Northern Iroquoian language. They were believed to number more than 30,000 at the time of European contact in the 1610s to 1620s.
  In the late 17th century, the Huron (Wyandot) Confederacy merged with the Tionontati nation (known as the Petun in French, also known as the Tobacco people for their chief commodity crop). This may originally have been a splinter colony of the Huron, to their west to form the historical Wyandot.  Drastically reduced in number by epidemic diseases after 1634, they were dispersed by war in 1649 from the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee), then based in New York. Archaeological evidence of this displacement has been uncovered at the Rock Island II Site in the state of Wisconsin in the United States.
  The Huron Range spanned the region from downriver of the source of the St. Lawrence River, along three-quarters of the northern shore of Lake Ontario, to the territory of the related Neutral people, extending north from both ends to wrap around Georgian Bay. This became their territorial center after their 1649 defeat and dispossession.
caption: Wyandot moccasins, ca. 1880, Bata Shoe Museum
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