Wyandot
noun
an Indian of the former Huron confederacy.
Wyandots
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pluralof Wyandot.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
This custom of descent in the female line prevailed not only among the Iroquois proper, but also among the Wyandots, and probably among the Andastes and the Eries, extinct members of the great Iroquois family.
From The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Francis Parkman
