Wyandot

American  

[wahy-uhn-dot] / ˈwaɪ ənˌdɒt /

Or Wyandotte

noun

Wyandots, plural Wyandot plural

1. an Indian of the former Huron confederacy.

2. a dialect of the Huron language, especially as used by those elements of the Huron tribe regrouped in Oklahoma.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• Wyandot
  plural
• Wyandots
  plural

Example Sentences

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Wyandot Wyandots

General view of a soybean field, where crops have benefitted from ample rains in recent weeks that could boost yields, in Wyandot County, Ohio, U.S.,

From Reuters ● Feb. 7, 2022

In the 18th century, the Wyandot, Delaware and Shawnee passed through the area and called the river “Hockhocking,” which inspired the park’s name.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 15, 2021

In late 1788, delegations from the Iroquois Six Nations confederacy, the Delaware, Wyandot, Ottawa, and other tribes met with the settlers at Fort Harmar, near Marietta.

From Slate ● May 10, 2019

A pervasive negative view of mental health care poisons the work, said Geiss, who is training staff at Truman Behavioral Health and Wyandot, Inc., in Zero Suicide.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 13, 2017

I will streak and stripe and spot his face till he looks as savage and fierce as Big Foot, the Wyandot giant—scary enough to scare a scare-crow.

From The Red Moccasins A Story by Heady, Morrison

Early inhabitants had been Shawnees, Miamis, Wyandots, and numerous smaller tribes, but retreating bands of Delawares and others had joined them from the East.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018

The United States acquired the territory that became downtown Chicago from Wyandots, Delawares, Shawnees, and others in the same 1795 treaty that gave the U.S. most of Ohio.

From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2014

At that meeting Tecumseh had delegates with him from several nations, including Kickapoos, Wyandots, Peorias, Ojibwas, Potawatomis, Winnebagos, and Shawnees.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Wayne’s units entered what is now northwestern Ohio and established a base they called Fort Defiance in the heart of an Indigenous alliance that included Delawares, Shawnees, Miamis, and Wyandots.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

The fugitive Wyandots sought refuge in the Ojibwa hunting-grounds; and tradition relates that, at the outlet of Lake Superior, an Iroquois war-party once encountered a disastrous repulse.

From The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Parkman, Francis