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In June 1853, Big Turtle, a Wyandot chief, wrote to the Ohio State Journal regarding the current condition of his tribe. The Wyandot had received nearly $127,000 for their lands in 1845. Big Turtle noted that, in the spring of 1850, the tribal chiefs retroceded the granted land to the government.
The last Indians in Ohio were removed in 1843 via Treaty with the Wyandots (1842) by which the reservation at Upper Sandusky was ceded to the United States, and the Wyandots relocated to Oklahoma in 1843. [citation needed] As of the 20th century, there are no Indian reservations in Ohio, and no federally recognized Indian tribes in Ohio.
The Upper Sandusky Reservation was home to many of the Wyandot from 1818–1842. It was the last Native American reservation in Ohio when it was dissolved, and was also the largest Native American reservation in Ohio, although up until 1817 most of Northwest Ohio had not been ceded to the United States government. [1]
Upper Sandusky was a 19th-century Wyandot town named for its location at the headwaters of the Sandusky River in northwestern Ohio. [5] This was the primary Wyandot town during the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), and was sometimes also known as Half-King's Town, after Dunquat, the Wyandot "Half-King".
Wyandot County is a county located in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2020 census, the population was 21,900. [2] Its county seat is Upper Sandusky. [3] It was named for the Wyandot Indians, who lived here before and after European encounter.
Horonu, also known as The Cherokee Boy, was a Wyandot chief. In the 1817 Treaty of Fort Meigs, he was granted 640 acres "on the Sandusky River, to be laid off in a square form, and to include his improvements." [4] This land is located in Wyandot County, Ohio, in T1S R14E of the First Principal Meridian. [11]
The treaty ceded the lighter yellow area (87) south of the Maumee and Lake Erie and north of the Greenville Treaty Line. [1]The Treaty of Fort Meigs, also called the Treaty of the Maumee Rapids, formally titled, "Treaty with the Wyandots, etc., 1817", was the most significant Indian treaty by the United States in Ohio since the Treaty of Greenville in 1795.
Muskingum (also known as Conchake) was a Wyandot village in southeastern Ohio from 1747 to 1755. [3]: 288 It was an important trade center in the early 1750s, until it was devastated by smallpox in the winter of 1752.