Tribal, Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma

WYANDOTTE NATION TRIBE OF OKLAHOMA -  The Wyandotte Nation is a federally recognized Native American tribe in Oklahoma.  They are descendants of the Wendat Confederacy and Native Americans with territory near Georgian Bay and Lake Huron.  Under pressure from Iroquois and other tribes, then from European settlers and the United States government, the tribe gradually moved south and west to Ohio, Michigan, Kansas and finally Oklahoma in the United States.

Smaller groups of Wendat descendants live in Kansas and Michigan.  The Huron-Wendat Nation has a reserve at Wendake, Quebec, Canada, with a population close to that of the Wyandotte Nation.

The Wendat, their name for themselves in their language, or Wyandotte, as they came to be called after merging with other related groups, are Iroquoian-speaking Indians from the eastern woodlands.  Their name is thought to mean "dwellers on a peninsula" or "islanders."

After the American Civil War, Wyandotte people who had not become citizens of the United States in 1855 in Kansas, were removed a final time in 1867 to present-day Oklahoma.  They were settled on 20,000 acres (81 km2) in the northeast corner of Indian Territory.   The Seneca, Shawnee, and Wyandotte Industrial Boarding School, also called the Wyandotte Mission, opened for classes in Wyandotte, Oklahoma in 1872.