Wyandot and Wyandotte Resources

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Location: Michigan; Ohio; Oklahoma; Kansas
Surnames/tags: Wyandot Native_Americans Wyandotte Nation

Welcome to this Space page of resources for research on Native American and First Nation tribes and people known as Wyandot and Wyandotte.

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Contents 1 Peoples 2 Places 2.1 Wyandotte, Michigan 2.2 Wyandot County, Ohio 2.3 Wyandotte County, Kansas 2.4 Wyandotte, Oklahoma 3 WikiTree Resources 3.1 Categories 3.2 Space Pages 4 Census Records and Tribal Rolls 4.1 Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940 4.2 State Censuses 4.3 1843 Ohio Muster Roll 4.4 1847 Census Roll 4.5 1855 Claimant Roll 4.6 1855 Treaty Roll 4.7 1867 Treaty Roll 4.8 1871 Lists 4.9 1896 "Olive Roll" 4.10 1957 Proposed Membership Roll 5 Treaties 6 Record Collections and Research Resources 6.1 Archival Collections & Manuscripts 6.2 Bibliographies 6.3 First-Hand & Historical Accounts 6.4 Removal 6.5 Culture & Language 6.6 Maps 6.7 General Reference 7 Sources on This Page

Peoples

Today there are three communities of Indigenous people known as Wyandot or Wyandotte in the United States:

• Wyandotte Nation: U.S. federally recognized Native American tribe headquartered in Wyandotte, Ottawa County, Oklahoma.
• Wyandot of Anderdon Nation: Indigenous people of Turtle Island; state-recognized in Michigan.
• Wyandot Nation of Kansas: Wyandot who left Michigan for Ohio and subsequently were removed to Kansas; state-recognized in Kansas.

There is one recognized First Nation in Canada:

• Nation Huronne-Wendat: First Nation community in Wendake, Quebec.

Places

Wyandotte, Michigan

City in Wayne County; early settlement of Wyandot/Wendat originally from Georgian Bay area of Canada.

• City of Wyandotte official website
• FamilySearch: Wayne County, Michigan Genealogy
• Wikipedia: Wyandotte, Michigan

Wyandot County, Ohio

Historic area of Wyandot Reserve lands in the Ohio Valley.

• Wyandot County, OH official website
• FamilySearch: Wyandot County, Ohio Genealogy
• Wikipedia: Wyandot County, Ohio

• The history of Wyandot county, Ohio, containing a history of the county; its townships, towns, churches, schools, etc. Chicago: Leggett, Conaway & Co., 1884. Image copy. Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/historyofwyandot00legg_0 : 2016.
• Finley, James Bradley. History of the Wyandott Mission, at Upper Sandusky, Ohio, under the direction of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Cincinnati: J. F. Wright and L. Swormstedt, for the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1840. Image copy. Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/historyofwyandot00finl : 2022.

Wyandotte County, Kansas

Settled by Wyandot removed from Ohio in 1843.

• Unified Government of Wyandotte County & Kansas City official website
• FamilySearch: Wyandotte County, Kansas Genealogy
• Wikipedia: Wyandotte County, Kansas

• Kansas State Historical Society and Louise Barry (comp). Comprehensive Index, 1875-1930, to Collections, Biennial Reports and Publications of the Kansas State Historical Society. Topeka: The Society, 1959. Image copy. HathiTrust. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/102694613/Home : accessed 18 December 2023.
• Morgan, Perl Wilbur. History of Wyandotte County, Kansas, and its people. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1911. Image copy. Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/historywyandott01morggoog : 2022.
• Nichols, John. "Canada to Kansas: The Wyandot Origins of Quindaro" in Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains 42 (Summer 2019), 80-89; digital images, Kansas State Historical Society (https://www.kshs.org/p/kansas-history-summer-2019/20231 : accessed 15 December 2023).
• "Wyandotte County." In Andreas, A. T. and Thelma Carpenter, History of the State of Kansas, containing a full account of its growth from an uninhabited territory to a wealthy and important State ...: Also, a supplementary history and description of its counties, cities, towns, and villages (Chicago: A.T. Andreas, 1883), 1226-1254; digital images, HathiTrust Digital Library (https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008372811/Home : accessed 15 April 2024).

Wyandotte, Oklahoma

City in Ottawa County and tribal headquarters of Wyandotte Nation; named for Wyandot removed from Kansas in 1867.

• FamilySearch: Ottawa County, Oklahoma Genealogy
• Wikipedia: Wyandotte, Oklahoma

WikiTree Resources

Categories

• Wyandot & Wyandotte Team Category - for profiles of team members and pages associated with the team
• Wyandot Category - for profiles of Wyandot/Wyandotte people
• Wyandotte Nation Category - use for members who were born or died after 1937
• Absentee Wyandotte Indians Category page
• 1843 Wyandot Ohio Muster Roll Category page
• Quindaro Township (Wyandotte County, Kansas) Category page

Space Pages

• Absentee Wyandots Space page
• Quindaro Cemetery (Kansas City, Kansas) Space page
• Wyandot National Burying Ground (Kansas City, Kansas) Space page

• Native Americans Project Reliable Sources
• Native Americans Project Photo Page - resources for finding images

Census Records and Tribal Rolls

Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940

Wyandot/Wyandotte appear on the following rolls in Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940 (NARA Microfilm Publication M595); links point to digital images at Internet Archive:

1885-92	Roll 411 Quapaw (Eastern Shawnee, Miami, Modoc, Ottawa, Peoria Quapaw, Seneca, and Wyandot Indians)
1893-1900	Roll 412 Quapaw (Eastern Shawnee, Miami, Modoc, Ottawa, Peoria Quapaw, Seneca, and Wyandot Indians)
1922-29	Roll 413 (Eastern Shawnee, Ottawa, Quapaw, Seneca, and Wyandot Indians)
1930-32	Roll 414 (Eastern Shawnee, Ottawa, Quapaw, Seneca, and Wyandot Indians)
1933-35	Roll 415 (Eastern Shawnee, Ottawa, Quapaw, Seneca, and Wyandot Indians)
1936-39	Roll 416 (Eastern Shawnee, Miami, Ottawa, Peoria, Quapaw, Seneca and Wyandot Indians)
1901-07	Roll 488 Seneca (Eastern Shawnee, Miami, Modoc, Ottawa, Peoria Quapaw, Seneca, and Wyandot Indians)

Free online images are also available at FamilySearch.

State Censuses

• Kansas, U.S., State Census Collection, 1855-1925 - Ancestry ($)
• Oklahoma and Indian Territory, U.S., Indian Censuses and Rolls, 1851-1959 - Ancestry ($)

1843 Ohio Muster Roll

The "Muster Roll of Wyandot Indians Who Departed Upper Sandusky, Ohio" was prepared by the Wyandot Chiefs who led their peoples out of the Ohio Valley in July 1843.

• View online at NARA Microform M1831, Roll 1, Images 106-115
• Transcription at WNOK website
• WT Category: 1843 Wyandot Ohio Muster Roll

1847 Census Roll

"Census Return of Families in the Missouri branch of the Wyandot Tribe of Indians residing on the lands held by them..., and statistics of that Tribe, taken and collected for the year 1847, under the 5th section of the act, approved 3d March, 1847, amending organization of the Indian Department."

• View online at NARA Microform 234, Roll 950, Images 570 through 590

1855 Claimant Roll

List of claimants payable under Article 5 of 1842 Council House Treaty

• View online at NARA Microform 234, Roll 950, Images 515 through 523

1855 Treaty Roll

"Lists of all the Individual Members of the Wyandott Tribe Those of each separate family being arranged as per 3rd article of Treaty."

Article 3 of the Treaty with the Wyandot, 1855 required three commissioners to be appointed "—one by the United States, and two by the Wyandott council—", who were to prepare lists of Wyandottes eligible to receive land allotments under provisions of the treaty. The resulting lists were used to assign quantities of land to each family or individual. ^[1] The lists were submitted to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs by the Wyandott Commissioners on 22 February 1859.

• The 1855 Treaty Lists are reprinted in a 1919 Kansas State Historical Society article on "Wyandot and Shawnee Indian Lands in Wyandotte County, Kansas." ^[2]

1867 Treaty Roll

"List of the Wyandotte Tribe of Indians 'A register of the wholl [sic] people resident in Kansas and Elsewhere' 13th Treaty 1867" - prepared about August 1870.

• View online at NARA Microform M234, Roll 951, Images 208-252
• Transcription at WNOK website

1871 Lists

"Names of Wyandottes, taken from the Citizen list, who were over the age of twenty one years at the time of making the Treaty of January 31st, 1855, who are excluded from entering into tribal relations, under instructions contained in the letter of the Supt. of Indian Affairs, dated April 10th, 1871."

• View online at NARA Microform M234, Roll 951, Images 708-712
• Subsequent images are lists of Wyandottes entitled to enter into tribal relations.

1896 "Olive Roll"

The "Census of the Absentee or Citizen Wyandotte Indians, taken by Joel T. Olive, special and disbursing United States Indian agent, November 18, 1896," also known as the 'Olive Roll,' was prepared under the provisions of the Act of June 10, 1896, 29 Stat. 321.

• For more information see the Absentee Wyandots Space Page.
• For existing WikiTree profiles of persons appearing on the Olive Roll, see the Absentee Wyandotte Indians Category Page.

1957 Proposed Membership Roll

• "Wyandotte Tribe of Oklahoma Notice of Proposed Membership Roll" - published 05 April 1957 in the Federal Register, pp. 2286-2301.

Treaties

Treaties can add value to genealogical research in a few ways:

• Ancestors may have been signatories to a treaty made with the United States, signifying they may have held positions of leadership or authority within tribes or clans.
• Ancestors and their heirs may also have been granted land allotments to satisfy certain treaty provisions.
• The text of treaties can provide some historical background and context to events and influences of the early formation of the U.S. Government and its relations with Native Americans and other Indigenous peoples.

For more treaty research sources also see Native Americans Project Reliable Sources-Treaties.

Below is a partial list of significant treaties with the Wyandot. This list is not exhaustive. Treaty links point to treaties and related documents viewable online in the National Archives Catalog:

Date	Treaty	Wyandot Signatories
1785	Treaty of Ft. McIntosh Wyandots in Ohio acknowledge they are “under the protection of the United States, and of no other sovereign whatsoever.”	Daunghquat, Abraham Kuhn, Ottawerrieri, Geo. Clark [was probably the interpreter]
1789	Treaty with the Wyandots, Etc. Wyandot provisions separate from the Treaty of Ft. Harmar (Treaty with the Six Nations); attempted to reinforce provisions of Treaty of Ft. McIntosh	Tarhe
1789	Treaty of Ft. Harmar
1795	Treaty of Greenville Ended the Northwest Indian Wars in Ohio Territory; redefined boundaries of Indian territory in Ohio	Tarhe, Roundhead, Leatherlips.
1805	Treaty of Ft. Industry Additional lands in Ohio ceded as eastern boundary of Indian lands in Ohio is moved	Tarhe
1815	Treaty of Spring Wells U.S. "gives peace" to and "agrees to pardon" hostilities of certain tribes; Treaty of Greenville renewed and confirmed	Tarhe
1817	Treaty of the Foot of the Rapids; Treaty of Ft. Meigs Wyandots cede lands in Ohio; allocated Wyandot reserve at Upper Sandusky; land grants made to Wyandots Robert Armstrong, Cherokee Boy, among others.	De-un-quot, Principal Chief; Between-the-Logs; The Cherokee Boy; John Hicks Sr.; Mononcue; George Punch Sr.; Ron-ton-dee; Undauwau
1818	Treaty of St. Mary's Wyandots cede lands in Michigan	De-un-quot, Between-the-Logs, Cherokee Boy
1836	Treaty with the Wyandot More Wyandot lands in Ohio ceded to U.S.	Principal Chief William Walker Jr., John Barnett, and Peacock
1842	Council House Treaty Wyandots cede remaining lands in Ohio and Michigan and agree to removal to Indian Territory; land grants made to certain Wyandots, including Silas Armstrong, John M. Armstrong, Francis A. Hicks
1855	Treaty of Washington Dissolution of the Wyandot Nation: Wyandots declared to be citizens of the United States; land assignments and patents made to individuals of "Wyandott tribe."	Tan-roo-mee, Mathew Mudeater, John Hicks, Silas Armstrong, Geo. J. Clark, Joel Walker
1867	Treaty with the Seneca, Mixed Seneca and Shawnee, Quapaw, etc. Articles 13, 14 & 15 contained provisions relating to Wyandottes, including lands "set apart for the Wyandottes for their future home [from] the land ceded by the Senecas...."	Tauromee, John Karaho

Record Collections and Research Resources

• National Archives > American Indian Records in the National Archives
• Native American Online Genealogy Records at FamilySearch
• American Indian Records data collections at Ancestry ($)
• Oklahoma and Indian Territory, Indian and Pioneer Historical Collection, 1937 at Ancestry ($)
• Wyandot Heritage Digital Archive (WHDA)
  Guide to historical sources and scholarship from the Wyandotte Nation Cultural Center and Museum (Wyandotte, OK).

Archival Collections & Manuscripts

• Armstrong, Ralph Waldo Jr. The Descendants of Robert Armstrong, Indian Captive. Wilmington, Delaware: s. n., 1980. Image copy. FamilySearch. https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/566252-the-descendants-of-robert-armstrong-indian-captive : 2016.
• Buser, Charles and Patricia, creators. The Charles Aubrey and Patricia Anderson Buser Collection of Research on Native American Cultures. Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, Ohio State University. https://library.osu.edu/finding-aids/rarebooks/buser/buser-wyandot.php : 2012.
• Hancks, Larry K. The emigrant tribes: Wyandot, Delaware & Shawnee, a chronology in PDF format. Kansas City, Kansas: Larry K. Hancks, 2003. Image copy. Wyandot Nation of Kansas website. https://www.wyandot.org/wyandotKS/wyandot-history-in-kansas/ : 2022.
• Marsh, Thelma G. Index cards of Wyandott tribe, Upper Sandusky, Ohio, ca. 1795-1910. Bowling Green, Ohio: Center for Archival Collection, Bowling Green State University, 1997. Image copy. FamilySearch. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS5D-NSQN-G : 1997.

Bibliographies

• American Indians in Kansas Bibliography: Wyandottes (Huron)
  Excellent, extensive annotated bibliography from Kansas Historical Society

First-Hand & Historical Accounts

• Badger, Rev Joseph. "A Sketch of the Wyandot Tribe of Indians," in A.J. Baughman (ed). Past and Present of Wyandot County, Ohio; a Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement, Volume I, 38-71. Chicago: Clark Publishing Company, 1913. Image copy. Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/pastpresentofwya01baug/ : 2016.
• Barbeau, C.M. Huron and Wyandot mythology: with an appendix containing earlier published records. Ottawa: Government Printing Bureau, 1915. Image copy. Hathi Trust. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000814400/Home : 2023.
• Clarke, Peter Dooyentate. Origin and traditional history of the Wyandotts : and sketches of other Indian tribes of North America. True traditional stories of Tecumseh and his league, in the years 1811 and 1812. Toronto: Hunter, Rose & Co, 1870. Image copy. Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/origintraditiona00clar/ : 06 May 2009.
• Connelly, William E. The Provisional Government of Nebraska Territory and The Journals of William Walker, Provisional Governor of Nebraska Territory. Lincoln, Nebraska: State Journal Company, 1899. Image copy. Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/provisionalgover00conn : 2022.
• Connelley, William E. Wyandot Folk-lore. Topeka, Kansas: Crane & Company, 1899. Image copy. Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/wyandotfolklore00lcconn/ : 2008.
• Finley, James Bradley. Life among the Indians: or, personal reminiscences and historical incidents; illustrative of Indian life and character. Cincinnati: Hitchcock and Walden, 1857. Image copy. Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/lifeamongindians00fin : 2022.
• Youngman, Paul Armstrong. History of the Wyandots and "the Armstrong story." McMinnville, Oregon: Bennet & Miller, c1975. Image copy. FamilySearch. https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/561987-heritage-of-the-wyandots-and-the-armstrong-story : 2022.

Removal

• Stockwell, Mary. The Other Trail of Tears The Removal of the Ohio Indians. Yardley, Pennsylvania: Westholme Publishing, 2015. See WorldCat catalog record.
• Clifford E. Trafzer, "The Wyandots: From Quebec to Indian Territory," in Smith, Robert E. (ed)., Oklahoma's Forgotten Indians (Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Historical Society, 1981), 108-122. Image copy available from OHS The Gateway to Oklahoma History at https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc862894/.

Culture & Language

The traditional Wyandot language is Northern Iroquoian.

• Wikipedia: Wyandot Language
• See the finding aid for Box 13: Vocabulary Notecards in the Charles and Patricia Buser Collection for image scans of notecards with some Wyandot/English translations, and some bibliographic references.
• Larry Hancks, "Appendix VII: A Note on Names", pp. 483-496, in his The emigrant tribes: Wyandot, Delaware & Shawnee, a chronology in PDF format.

• Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe. The American Indians, Their History, Condition and Prospects, from Original Notes and Manuscripts. Buffalo: George H. Derby & Co, 1851. Image copy. Google Books (https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_American_Indians/UmYFAAAAQAAJ : accessed 27 May 2024).
• Steckley, John. The Eighteenth-Century Wyandot : a Clan-Based Study. Waterloo, Ontario, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2014. See WorldCat catalog record.
• Steckley, John L., “APPENDIX A: Wyandot Verbs.” In Forty Narratives in the Wyandot Language, 98:649–73. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020. Accessed via JSTOR (https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1gm00gk.8 : 21 August 2023 [requires institutional access].
• Steckley, John L. “Rescuing Colonized Names of the Wyandot”, Onomastica Canadiana, 97, Nos. 1 & 2 (2018),165-187; image copy (https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/oc/article/view/14964 : downloaded 21 August 2023).
• Steckley, John L. Words of the Huron. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2007. https://muse.jhu.edu/book/13216.
• Tooker, Elisabeth. An Ethnography of the Huron Indians, 1615-1649. Midland, Ontario, Canada: Huronia Historical Development Council and the Ontario Department of Education, through the co-operation of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C., 1967. Image copy. Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/ethnographyofhur0000took_c6e2 : accessed 27 May 2024).

Maps

• Map showing Allotments made under Treaty of 1855
• Plan of "Wyandott" City, Kansas Territory - Kansas Historical Society (1857)
• Map of Wyandotte Co., Kansas - Library of Congress (1887)

For more general map resources see Native Americans Project Reliable Sources-Maps

General Reference

• Wyandot Nation research wiki at FamilySearch
• Wikipedia: Wyandot People
• Wikipedia: Wyandotte Nation

Sources on This Page

1. ↑ "Ratified Indian Treaty 285: Wyandot - Washington, DC, January 31, 1855," Indian Treaties, 1789 - 1869, General Records of the United States Government, 1778 - 2006, Record Group 11: General Records of the United States Government, 1778 - 2006; National Archives Identifier: 176910960; National Archives Building at Washington, D.C.; online version on 18 December 2023 available through the NARA online catalog at https://catalog.archives.gov/id/176910960.
2. ↑ “Wyandot and Shawnee Indian Lands in Wyandotte County, Kansas” in Connelley, William (ed.), Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society 1919-1922 Vol. XV (Topeka: Kansas State Printing Plant, 1923), 103-127; digital images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/collectionsofkan15kans_0/page/n129/mode/2up : downloaded 18 December 2023).