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As the centenary of the burning approached, a movement arose to commemorate Crawford's death with a monument. The movement's proponents were aroused by a strong sense of the incident's importance: besides being the earliest major event in Wyandot County history, it was the county's most prominent event of all time in their opinion.
Big Bottom, named for the broad Muskingum River Flood Plain, this park is the site of an attack on an Ohio Company settlement by Delaware and Wyandot Indians on Jan 2, 1791. The Big Bottom Massacre marked the outbreak [ 10 ] of four years of frontier warfare in Ohio, which only stopped when General Anthony Wayne and the Indian Tribes signed the ...
The Huron Indian Cemetery in Kansas City, Kansas, also known as Huron Park Cemetery, is now formally known as the Wyandot National Burying Ground. It was established c. 1843, soon after the Wyandot (called Huron by French explorers) had arrived following removal from Ohio. The tribe settled in the area for years, with many in 1855 accepting ...
The Wyandot acquired a more-or-less square parcel north and west of the junction of the Kansas River and the Missouri River. [45] A United States government treaty granted the Wyandot Nation a small portion of fertile land located in an acute angle of the Missouri River and Kansas River, which they purchased from the Delaware in 1843.
The Huron Feast of the Dead was a mortuary custom of the Wyandot people of what is today central Ontario, Canada, which involved the disinterment of deceased relatives from their initial individual graves followed by their reburial in a final communal grave. A time for both mourning and celebration, the custom became spiritually and culturally ...
Treaty of Fort Harmar (1789) - Wyandot, etc.; Treaty of Greenville (1795) - Wyandot, etc.: lands south and east of a line from Cuyahoga River to Portage, west to Fort Recovery, southwest to the Ohio across from the mouth of the Kentucky River (near Madison, Indiana) - tribes (11); Potawatomi, Shawnee, Delaware, Miami [1]
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.
Nicholas Orontony (c. 1695–1750) was an 18th-century Wyandot leader who, in the years before the French and Indian War, tried to escape the domination of New France over Native people in the Detroit region by resettling in the Ohio country and forming an anti-French tribal coalition.