#wyandot

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Wyandot dancer, Canada, by Tourism Wendake

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Great Peacemaker of the Haudenosaunee

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Map of North America before Columbus and colonization

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Treaty (p 1, sig. pg) Between the United States and the Wyandot Indians Signed at the Council House, Upper Sandusky, Ohio, 3/17/1842, and maps of land ceded in this treaty (via Digitreaties). 

File Unit: Ratified Indian Treaty 240: Wyandot - Council House, Upper Sandusky, Ohio, March 17, 1842, 1789 - 1869

Series: Indian Treaties, 1789 - 1869

Record Group 11: General Records of the United States Government, 1778 - 2006

Image description: Map with a section of land outlined, which covers Upper Sandusky, Ohio, and east almost to Bucyrus. 

Image Description: Map with a section of land outlined, which covers parts of Wayne County and Monroe County, Michigan, including Oakwoods Metropark.

Transcription: John Tyler, President of the United States of

America, by John Johnston formerly agent for

Indian affairs now a citizen of the State of Ohio,

commissioner duly authorised and appointed to

treat with the Wyandot Nation of Indians for a

cession of all their lands lying and being within the

states of Ohio and Michigan; and the duly constitut-

ed Chiefs, Counsellors and head men of the said

Wyandott nation, in full council assembled on the

other part; have entered into the following articles

and conditions, viz.

Article 1.  The Wyandott [caret] Nation [/c] of Indians do hereby

cede to the United States all that tract of land

situate lying and being in the County of Crawford

and State of Ohio, commonly known as the residue

of its large Reserve being all of their remaining

lands within the state of Ohio, and containing one

hundred and nine thousand one hundred and

forty four acres, more or less.  The said nation

also hereby cedes to the United States all their right

and title to the Wyandott reserve on both sides of the

river Huron in the state of Michigan, containing

four thousand nine hundred and ninety six a

cres, be the same more or less being all the remain-

-ing lands claimed or set apart for the use of the

Wyandotts within the state of Michigan, and the

United States hereby promises to pay the sum of

Five hundred dollars towards the expences of

removing the Indians of the river Huron to Upper Sandusky

but before the latter clause of this articles is binding

on the contracting parties, the consent of the

head men of the river Huron Wyandotts is to be

had in writing.

[penciled in line count in left margin]

1   Article 2.  In consideration of the forgoing

2   cession, the United States hereby grant to the

3    aforesaid Wyandott nation, a tract of land

4    west of the Mississippi River, [penciled in bracket] in a square or

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March in the year of our Lord one thousand

eight hundred and forty two have set their names

signed in presence of }   [signed] John Johnston

us.                                       }

[red wax seal with ribbon]

[left column]

[signed] John W. Bear

        Sub. Ind Agt

[signed] James Rankin  U. S. Interpreter

[signed] G. C. Worth

[signed] John Cary

[signed] Saml Newell

[signed] Stephen Fowler

[signed] Chas Graham

[signed] John Walker

[signed] Chester Wells

[signed] I. Duddleson

[signed] Andrew Gardner jr

[signed] John Justus

[right column]

Fran. A. Hicks

       principal =chief

James Washington  [his mark] X

Squeendehtee  [his mark] X

Henry Jaquis  [his mark] X

Tauroone (  [his mark] X

George Armstrong (  [his mark] X

Doctor Grey Eyes  [his mark] X

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The Flying Heads are creatures found in Iroquois and Wyandot folklore. The Flying Heads are described as giant heads with wings that flew around in the sky and attacked people. The Flying Heads were formed when the tribe was going through a famine and the young men of the tribe wanted to have the tribe leave the land and find a new area. The elders of the tribe didn’t want to leave their land so the young men killed and decapitated the elders and tossed their bodies and heads in a nearby lake. Upon doing this, the water bubbled and slime started to appear and the elders heads, now huge, appeared out of the water with wings and started to terrorize the tribe. A legend says that a woman was roasting and eating acorns and a Flying Head saw this and was horrified thinking the woman was eating live coals straight from the fire and thinking she had immense power the Flying Head flew off and never bothered the tribe again.

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An Empty, Edenic “Frontier” Was a Core Lie of American History. So Why is David McCullough Still Peddling It?

In ignoring the messy realities of westward expansion, McCullough’s The Pioneers is both incomplete and dull.

The marketing material for The Pioneers stresses the idea that people won’t have “heard of” the main characters and episodes in this book, and that this “unknown” quality makes the book interesting. But the real “people we haven’t heard of” are the Shawnee, Miami, Wyandot, and other Native peoples who, at the beginning of The Pioneers’ narrative action, had already weathered decades of white incursion, come together in confederacies and alliances, moved from place to place, and fiercely debated among themselves what was to be done.        

 Jeffrey Ostler’s Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas—an excellent first installment of what will be a two-part history, also out this month—shows how in the decades before the establishment of the settlement at Marietta, the Native peoples of the northeast viewed the American Revolution with considerable trepidation, correctly foreseeing that Americans would be far more aggressive in their westward expansion than the British. In 1787, Samson Occom, a Mohegan Christian Ostler quotes on the matter, wrote that the American Revolution “has been the most d[e]structive to poor Indians of any wars that ever … happened in my day.” “Never before had Europeans destroyed so many Indian towns over such a wide area as Americans did during their war to obtain independence from Britain,” Ostler writes.        

But little of this very recent history of violence makes it into McCullough’s narrative. By spring 1793, the settlers in his book feel somewhat better about the threat from Natives, with the news of the formation of an army under Gen. Anthony Wayne, “to settle the threat of Indian attacks once and for all” (McCullough writes).

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Treaty Between the United States and the Wyandot, Ottawa, Chippewa, Munsee, Delaware, Shawnee, and Potawatomi Signed at Fort Industry on the Miami of the Lake, 7/4/1805

File Unit: Ratified Indian Treaty 45: Wyandot, Ottawa, Chippewa, Munsee, Delaware, Shawnee and Potawatomi - Fort Industry on the Miami of the Lake, July 4, 1805, 1789 - 1869

Series: Indian Treaties, 1789 - 1869

Record Group 11: General Records of the United States Government, 1778 - 2006

Transcription:

A Treaty between the United States of America, and the Sachems, Chiefs, and Warriors, of the Wyandot, Ottawa, Chippewa, 

Munsee and Delaware, Shawanee and Pottawatima Nations, holden at Fort Industry on the Miami, of the Lake on the Fourth day of July

Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and five. 

Article 1st

The said Indian Nations do again acknowledge themselves, and all their Tribes, to be in friendship with, and under the protection of, the

United States. 

Article 2nd

The Boundary line between the United States and the Nations aforesaid, shall in future, be a Meredian line drawn North and South, 

through a Boundary to be erected on the south shore of Lake Erie, one hundred and twenty miles due west of the west boundary line of the

State of Pensylvania, extending north until it intersects the boundary line of the United States, and extending south it intersects a line heretofore es-

tablished by the Treaty of Grenville. 

Article 3rd

The Indian Nations aforesaid, for the consideration of Friendship to the United States, and sums of Money herin aftermentioned, to be paid

annually, to the Wyandot, Shawanee, Munsee and Delaware Nations, have ceeded and do hereby cede and relinquish, to said United States,

forever, all the Lands belonging to said United States, lying east of the aforesaid line, Bounded southerly and easterly by the line established by said

Treaty of Grenville, and Northerly by the Northernmost part of the forty first Degree of North Latitude.

Article 4th

The United States to preserve harmony, manifest thier liberality, and in consideration of the cession made in the preceeding article, will every year

forever hereafter, at Detroit or some other convenient place, pay and deliver, to the Wyandot, Munsee and Delaware Nations, and those

of the Shawanee and Seneca Nations who reside with the Wyandots, the sum of Eight hundred and twenty five dollars cur-

rent money of the United States, and the further sum of One hundred and seventy five dollars making in the whole an

annuity of One Thousand dollars, which last sum of one hundred and has been secured to the

President in trust for said nations, by the Connecticut Land Company, and by the company incorporated by the name

of "The proprietors of the half million acres of land lying south of Lake Erie called sufferers land," payable annually

as aforesaid, and to be divided between said Nations from time to time, in such proportions, as said Nations with the approbat-

-ion of the President shall agree.

Article 5th

To prevent all misunderstanding hereafter, it is to be expressly remembered, that the Ottawa and Chippawa Nations, and such of the Potta-

-watima Nation as reside on the river Huron of Lake Erie, and in the neighbourhood thereof, have received from the Connecticut

Land Company, and the Company incorporated by the name of "The  proprietors of the half Million Acres of land lying sough

of Lake Erie called sufferers land," the sum of Four thousand dollars in hand, and have secured to the President of the

United States in trust for them, the further sum of Twelve thousand dollars payable in six annual installments, of two

thousand each; which several sums in the full amount of their proportion of the purchases effected by this treaty, and also by a treaty 

with said Companies bearing even date herewith; which proportions were were agreed on and concluded by the whole of said Na-

-tions in their general council; which several sums together with Two thousand nine hundred and sixteen dollars and

sixty seven cents secured to the President, to raise said sum of one hundred and seventy five dollars annuity as aforesaid, 

is the amount of the consideration paid by the Agent of the Connecticut reserve, for the cession of their Lands.

Article 6th

The said Indian Nations parties to this treaty, shall be at liberty to fish, and hunt, within the Territory and Lands which they

have now ceded to the United States, so long as, they shall demean themselves peaceably. 

In Witness whereof Charles Jouett Esquire a Commissioner on the part of the United States, and the Sachems,

Chiefs and Warriors, of the Indian Nations aforesaid, have hereto set their hands and seals. 

[signed] Charles Jouett

In presence of.

[signatures]

Wm. Dean c FSC

JBllower

Interpreters:

[illegible] Parrish

[illegible]

William Walker

Israel Buland

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Ottawa: 

Nekick [pictograph] or Little Otter

Kawachewan [pictograph] or Eddy

Mechimenduth [pictograph] or Big Bowl

Aubaway [pictograph]

Ogonse [pictograph]

Sawgamaw [pictograph]

Tusquagan [pictograph] or McCarty

Tondau-ganie [pictograph] or the Dog

Ashawet [pictograph]

Chippewa: 

Marquettoguet [pictograph] or Little Bear

Quitchonequit [pictograph or X] or Big cloud

Queoonequetwabaw [pictograph]

Oscaguasanu [pictograph] or Young Boy

Monimalk [pictograph] or Cat Fish

Tonguish [pictograph]

Potawatima:

Noname [pictograph]

Mogawh [pictograph]

Wyandot:

Tarhee [pictograph] or the Crane

Miere [pictograph] or Walk in Water

Thateyyanayop [pictograph] or leather Sips

Harrowenyou [pictograph] or Cherokee Boy

Tschauendah [pictograph]

Tahunshawetee [pictograph] or Adam Brown

Shaurunthie [pictograph]

Munsee & Delaware: 

Puikconsithond [pictograph or X]

Paahmehelot [pictograph]

Pannocit [pictograph] or Armstrong

Pappellelonu [pictograph or X] or Beaver Hat 

Shawnee: 

Wayapierscawaw [pictograph] or Blue Jacket

Cuthiaweasaw [pictograph] or Black Half

Auonasukla [pictograph or X] or Civil Man 

[pictograph or X] Isaac Peters