Wyandot Elementary got it’s name from the Indian tribe of the same name. The Wyandot lived in southern Ontario, Canada. They were driven from their home by the Iroquois Confederacy and settled in northern Ohio. The Wyandot were friends with the Shawnee tribe and called them their “nephew” or “younger brother”.
The Wyandot were allies of the until British traders moved here around 1740. The French pushed the British out of Ohio and the Wyandot were forced to be allies of the French again. That was until the French and Indian War. As French trading posts turned into British forts, Ohio Indians came together to fight the British. During the Revolutionary War the Wyandot fought with the British against the americans.
The Wyandot were fierce warriors. Colonel Crawford led an expedition against them in 1782 and was burned at the stake. General Anthony Wayne was asked to fight against the Wyandot and was told by Captain Wells that, “they would not be taken alive.”
General Anthony Wayne finally defeated the Ohio Indians in the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794. The Wyandot gave up most of their land with the signed of the Treaty of Greenville. In 1842 they gave up the claim to their reservation and were moved from Upper Sandusky to a reservation in Kansas. They were the last tribe to leave Ohio.
Tarhe the Crane and Leatherlips are two well known chiefs of the Wyandot.