Native American Tribes - Wyandot people
The Wyandot people or Wendat (self-title), also called the Huron Nation and Huron people, in most historic references are believed to have been the most populous confederacy of Iroquoian cultured indigenous peoples of North America. They traditionally spoke the Wyandot language, a Northern Iroquoian language and were believed to number over 30,000[1] at the time the first European trader-explorers made contact with them in the 2nd-decade-17th-century.
By the 15th century, the pre-contact Wyandots settled in the large area from the north shores of most of present-day Lake Ontario, northwards up to Georgian Bay. From this homeland, these more numerous cousins of the League of the Iroquois first encountered the French explorerSamuel de Champlain in 1615; a full six years after Lieutenant Champlain made mortal enemies of the Iroquois by taking part in a battle between Mohawk, who'd never seen anarquebus and a mixed war party of Huron and Algonkin peoples on the shores of Lake Champlain.
“And the thunder and lightning of his [Champlain's] arquebus echoed for 150 years. The bold foe had been Mohawk. The Five Nations nursed a dogged animosity toward the French, with only a few interludes of real peace, from that time onward.”
— American Heritage Book of Indians, pp-187
The modern Wyandot emerged in the late 17th century from the remnants of two earlier groups: the Wendat (Huron) Confederacy and the Tionontate (Petun, or the Tobacco people). They were located in the southern part of what is now the Canadian province of Ontario around Georgian Bay. Drastically reduced in number by epidemic diseases after 1634, they were dispersed by war in 1649 from the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee), then based in New York.
Today the Wyandot have a First Nations reserve in Quebec, Canada. They also have three major settlements in the United States, two of which have independently governed, federally recognized tribes. Due to differing development of the groups, they speak distinct forms of Wendat and Wyandot languages.