For decades the Wyandots fought the white man fiercely in the area in which Wyandot Service Plaza is now located. |
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These clan names are all expressed in Wyandot, words so long and hard to properly pronounce that they are omitted here. |
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This is a modern reprint of John Johnston's 1820 vocabulary of Wyandot, an unfortunately extinct Iroquoian Indian language. |
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The Wyandot language has no native speakers today, so these vocabulary words come from early 19th-century sources and their pronunciation is uncertain. |
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These included the Miami, Winnebago, Shawnee, Fox, Sauk, Kickapoo, Delaware and Wyandot. |
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Many of the survivors gathered, displaced away from Lake Erie well to the north of their previous territories, ultimately forming the Wyandot nation. |
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