| Year |
History |
| 1649 |
Beaver Wars - 2,000
Mohawk and Seneca destroyed the Huron mission-villages of St. Ignace and
St. Louis with hundreds killed and captured and two Jesuit priests
tortured to death; main village removed to Christian Island in Georgian
Bay raising island population to 6,000; Attignawantan Huron had fled
west and took refuge with the Tionontati only to have the Iroquois
attack both of them; 1,000 Attignawantan and Tionontati fled north to
Macinack Island |
| 1651 |
Mackinack bands fled
to an island in Green Bay with the Ottawa; the Seneca defeated the
Neutrals and the Tahontaenrat Huron a few of whom retreated to join the
tribes on the island in Green Bay; others who surrendered were adopted
by the Seneca; a truce with the Iroquois allowed French Jesuits to
establish missions in the Iroquois villages for Huron converts adopted
by the Iroquois |
| 1654 |
Trois Rivieres band
moved to Christian Island |
| 1656 |
Confederated Huron,
Neutrals, and Tionontati became known as Wyandot and, along with the
Ottawa, began trading furs with the French |
| 1658 |
French fur traders,
Pierre Radisson and Médart Chouart des Groseilliers, accompanied by the
old Jesuit Réné Ménard, foloowed the Wyandot and Ottawa back to their
villages to winter with tribes; Father Ménard wandered off into the
woods and apparently was killed by the Dakota |
| 1659 |
Wyandot and Ottawa
fought a huge battle with the Iroquois along the Ottawa River; Wyandot
removed to an island in the Mississippi River |
| 1661 |
Facing war with the
Dakota, the Wyandot returned to their old Lake Superior village site;
500 Wyandot and Ottawa starved to death during the winter after an early
frost destroyed their corn |
| 1662 |
Wyandot, Ojibwa,
Algonkin, and Ottawa discovered a large Iroquois war party at Iroquois
Point, just west of Sault Ste. Marie, and annihilated them |
| 1665 |
Father Claude-Jean
Allouez arrived at Chequamegon to establish the mission of La Pointe de
St. Espirit for the Wyandot and Ottawa |
| 1667 |
Peace pact between
French and Iroquois ended war with Wyandot |
| 1669 |
Father Jacques
Marquette began serving at La Pointe mission |
| 1672 |
Due to war looming
with the Dakota, Father Marquette convinced the Wyandot and Ottawa to
leave Chequamegon and move east near his new mission at St. Ignace |
| 1684 |
Wyandot and Ottawa at
Mackinac were drawn into the fighting and defeating the Iroquois in
Illinois as French allies |
| 1701 |
Fighting continued
until a formal treaty of peace was concluded between the French alliance
and the Iroquois League; Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, the commandant at
Mackinac, arrived to Detroit to build Fort Ponchartrain. and asked the
Wyandot and Ottawa to leave the St. Ignace mission at Mackinac and move
south to Detroit |
| 1704 |
Jesuits closed their
Mackinac mission and returned to Quebec |
| 1710 |
Tensions rose as
Wyandot, Ottawa, Ojibwe, Peoria, Potawatomi, and Miami crowded into the
area of Detroit and broke out into the Fox Wars upon the arrival of the
Fox and Mascouten |
| 1728 |
Second Fox War;
Iroquois gave permission for the British to open a trading post at
Oswego in their homeland. Wyandot and Ottawa were regular visitors |
| 1730 |
Wyandot began
encroaching into Iroquois "owned" Ohio |
| 1738 |
Wyandot on the verge
of civil war but the clan mothers intervened to keep Wyandot from
killing Wyandot |
| 1740 |
Wyandot trading
openly with the British |
| 1744 |
King George's War
(1744-48), the Detroit Wyandot, Ojibwe, Ottawa, and Potawatomi sent
their warriors east to help the French defend Montreal from an expected
British invasion; Sandusky Wyandot and Mingo remained neutral |
| 1745 |
Sandusky chief
Orontony strengthened his ties with the British and concluded a separate
peace with the British allied Cherokee and Chickasaw |
| 1748 |
Orontony organized a
conspiracy against the French and burned their trading post at Sandusky |
| 1750 |
French built a fort
at Sandusky to limit Wyandot trade with the British |
| 1751 |
Smallpox epidemic |
| 1752 |
Wyandot renewed their
attacks on the Chickasaw |
| 1755 |
Wyandot and other
French allies went east to fight in the French campaigns in northern New
York |
| 1761 |
Members of the French
alliance had to come to terms with the British and agreed to meet at
Detroit with Sir William Johnson, the British Indian Commissioner in a
large conference attended by Iroquois, Wyandot, Delaware, Shawnee,
Mohican, Kickapoo, Miami, Ojibwa, Mingo, Ottawa, and Potawatomi |
| 1763 |
Pontiac Rebellion in
which Wyandot reluctantly joined Pontiac and attacked the British fort
at Sandusky |
| 1764 |
Ohio Wyandot made
peace with the British and signed the Treaty of Presque Isle |
| 1777 |
400 Wyandot, Mingo,
and Shawnee attacked Fort Henry (Wheeling, West Virginia) and burned the
nearby settlement |
| 1778 |
Half King's Wyandot
made a feint at Fort Randolph (Point Pleasant, West Virginia) and then
attacked settlements on the Kanawha River |
| 1780 |
Wyandot, Mingo, and
Shawnee joined the British expedition of Captain Henry Bird which
ravaged the Kentucky settlements |
| 1782 |
Colonel William
Crawford attacked the Sandusky villages and was efeated by a combined
force of Delaware and Wyandot, Crawford was captured by the Wyandot,
Half King turned him over to the Delaware who burned him at the stake in
revenge for the Movarian Delaware killed at Gnadenhuetten |
| 1783 |
Revolutionary War
ended, Wyandot warriors reduced to 100; British encouraged the formation
of a new alliance against the Americans at a meeting held at the
Sandusky villages of the Wyandot |
| 1785 |
Treaty of Fort
MacIntosh was signed with the Wyandot, Ottawa, Ojibwe, and Delaware
where they agreed to American sovereignty over Ohio in exchange for a
boundary with white settlement; 12,000 white settlers were north of the
Ohio |
| 1791 |
Washington finally
decided to take Ohio by force and ordered General Harmar to move against
the alliance replaced Harmar with Arthur St. Clair who's army was nearly
annihilated in western Ohio with 600 killed and 400 wounded, it was the
worst defeat ever inflicted on an American army by Native Americans |
| 1792 |
Anthony Wayne took
command in Ohio and sat quietly, patiently waiting for the right
moment to strike as the Indian alliance of 2,000 warriors crumbled |
| 1793 |
A desperate attack on
the Americans at Fort Recovery failed, the alliance had only 700
warriors to face Wayne's Legion at Fallen Timbers, after the battle, the
retreating warriors sought refuge with the British at Fort Miami, only
to have them close the gates on their former allies; Wayne never
attacked but burned their villages and food supplies forcing a treaty |
| 1805 |
Wyandot, Delaware,
Ottawa, Ojibwe, Shawnee, and Potawatomi signed the Treaty of Fort
Industry ceding more land and agreeing to a new permanent frontier |
| 1806 |
Shawnee prophet
Tenskwatawa visited the Wyandot villages making several converts, then
he denounced four women as witches, nly the intervention of the Wyandot
chief Tarhe prevented their execution |
| 1807 |
Ceded more land by
treaty |
| 1808 |
Ceded more land by
treaty |
| 1810 |
Wyandot chief
Leatherlips assassinated by Roundhead, a Detroit Wyandot chief loyal to
Tecumseh; other Wyandot on the lower Sandusky killed two women as
witches, and the calumet and wampum belts of the alliance were
transferred from Brownstown to Tecumseh's capital at Tippecanoe |
| 1813 |
Michigan Wyandot
under Roundhead were among Tecumseh's staunchest supporters but Tarhe
and his followers fought for the Americans; the division of the Wyandot
continued until Tecumseh and Roundhead were killed at the Battle of the
Thames |
| 1814 |
Second Treaty of
Greenville, the Wyandot, Delaware, Mingo, and Shawnee loyal to the
Americans agreed to end hostilities with the tribes which had sided with
Tecumseh: Kickapoo, Miami, Ottawa, and Potawatomi |
| 1817 |
Treaty of Maumee
Rapids (Fort Meigs), the Wyandot surrendered their remaining lands in
Ohio in exchange for two reservations: the Grand Reserve on the upper
Sandusky and the Cranberry Reserve |
| 1818 |
Wyandot signed two
treaties at St. Marys |
| 1832 |
Wyandot at the Big
Spring Reserve signed the Treaty of McCutcheonsville selling their
reserve |
| 1836 |
Ohio Wyandot signed
another treaty selling the Cranberry Reserve |
| 1842 |
ceded all their lands
in Ohio and Michigan and agreed to move to Kansas |
| 1845 |
664 Wyandot removed
to Kansas where they ultimately purchased land |
| 1857 |
200 Wyandot removed
to Indian Territory |
| 1867 |
Oklahoma Wyandot
recognized |
| 1873 |
Oklahoma Wyandotte
drafted new constitution |
| 1892 |
Anderdon Wyandots
surrender their reserve, tribe remained in area |
| 1956 |
Congress terminated
Wyandotte Tribe of Oklahoma recognized status |
