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Wyandots

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Wy·an·dot also Wy·an·dotte  (wn-dt)
n. pl. Wyandot or Wy·an·dots also Wyandotte or Wy·an·dottes
1.
a. A Native American people formed of groups displaced by the destruction of the Huron confederacy in the mid-17th century, formerly located in Ohio and the upper Midwest and now living in northeast Oklahoma.
b. A member of this people.
2. The Iroquoian language of the Wyandot.

[Wyandot wãdát, tribal name.]


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He used the language of the Wyandots, or Hurons; his words were, consequently, unintelligible to Heyward, though they seemed, by the gestures that accompanied them, to be uttered more in courtesy than anger.
The barbarous savage nations of Shawanese, Cherokees, Wyandots, Tawas, Delawares, and several others near Detroit, united in a war against us, and assembled their choicest warriors at old Chelicothe, to go on the expedition, in order to destroy us, and entirely depopulate the country.
 
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