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Mondo's NAT #633 - WyandotType: Traditional | Size: Small 
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Native American Tribe series. Wyandot The Wyandot are a remnant of the ancient Huron Indians, whose country was the western shore of the lake which bears their name. They were of Iroquois lineage, but, in the wars with the fierce "Six Nations" of the same family, were driven from their old home more than three centuries ago. In 1639, the Jesuits recorded their number as 20,000, owning 32 villages and 700 dwellings. Some of their towns were fortified and the dwellings were neatly constructed, being in formation with a raised platform extending the entire length, the space underneath being utilized as a storeroom. After the Wyandot were driven from Lake Huron, they migrated to the region of Detroit, and gradually extended their settlements south from the shore of Lake Erie, their principal villages being in the vicinity of Sandusky Bay in Ohio. The first treaty with the United States to which the Wyandot were a party was concluded at Fort McIntosh, Ohio on January 21, 1785. The Wyandot tribe was anciently divided into twelve clans, or gentes. Each of these had a local government, consisting of a clan council presided over by a clan chief. These clan councils were composed of at least five persons, one man and four women, and they might contain any number of women above four. Any business pertaining purely to the internal affairs of the clans was carried to the clan councils for settlement. An appeal was allowed from the clan council to the tribal council. The four women of the clan council regulated the clan affairs and selected the clan chief. The office of clan chief was in a measure hereditary, although not wholly so. The tribal council was composed of the clan chiefs, the hereditary sachem, and such other men of the tribe of renown as the sachem might with the consent of the tribal council call to the council fire. In determining a question the vote was by clans, and not by individuals. In matters of great importance it required a unanimous vote to carry a proposition. Mooney (1928) estimates that in 1600 there were 10,000 Huron and 8,000 Tionontati. French estimates of the first half of the seventeenth century range from 20,000 to 30,000, the former figure being one that Hewitt (in Hodge, 1907) is inclined to accept. After the dispersal, the Hurons of Lorette were estimated at 300 in 1736 but placed officially at 455 in 1904. The following figures are given for the other Huron: 1,000 in 1736; 500 and 850 in 1748; 1,250 in 1765; 1,500 in 1794-95; 1,000 and 1,250 in 1812. In 1885 the Huron in Oklahoma numbered 251; in 1905, 378; and by the census of 1910, 353. In 1923 there were 502 in Oklahoma and in 1924, 399 at Lorette, Canada: total 901. The census of 1530 returned exactly the same number in the United States as had the census of 1910. In 1937, 783 were reported in Oklahoma. In 1999, representatives of the far-flung Wyandot bands of Quebec, Kansas, Oklahoma and Michigan gathered at their historic homeland in Midland, Ontario, and formally re-established the Wendat Confederacy. Today, there are several autonomous bands: Wyandot Nation of Kansas - About 400 members headquartered in Kansas City, Kansas.
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