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FINALLY!!! The bugs are worked out of the layout, and our site is back in play! Check back often because you'll see a lot of new information on this site in almost every category!

The site is rolling out in phases.

Phase I - Basic Formatting: Implementing the new drop down menu feature, breaking the site into individual sections and providing access to new materials (a HUGE influx of new documents!)

Phase II -Additional Features will be Added:

Email Update List: Visitors can sign up for automatic updates when material has been added to wyandot.org

Search Function: will help viewers find the data they need

Java and Web Widget Galleries: viewers will be able to view historic photos and other archival data

 

 

Wyandot History - Ontario Canada

History of the Wyandot to 1614

James Hunter

Executive Director Huronia Museum / Huron Indian Village Midland, Ontario, Canada

Champlain's Account of the Battle of October 10, 1615

Excerpted from Champlain's Voyages to New France 1632

The Feast of the Dead 1637 Huron Wyandot Burials

by Francis Parkman

Craigleith and the Birth of the Historic Wyandot Tribe

by Charles Garrad

Petun' and the Petuns

by Charles Garrad

“THEY ONLY SPOKE IN SIGHS”:
THE LOSS OF LEADERS AND LIFE IN WENDAKE,
1633-1639

by Kathryn Magee Labelle

Petun Research Institute Website

The Petun Research Institute website contains a treasure trove of scholarly articles and materials meticulously researched and presented in a manner accessible to most levels of scholarship. The PRI has provided unwavering support to the Wyandot/Wendat people through researcb, as well as preservig historic and sacred sites including village and burial sites in Canada.

Special thanks to Charles Garrad, Ella Garrad and John Steckley for their continued support

Wyandot.org is proud to host the PRI Website!

OAS ArchNotes Articles

These articles appear courtesy of the OAS by permission of former OAS President, Jean Luc Pilon. Special thanks to the OAS for permission to republish these articles.

Wendat Language, Lifestyle & History

by John Steckley & Charles Garrad`

WHY DID THE WENRO TURN TURTLE?  

John Steckley

OAS ARCH NOTES 85-3:17-9 

 

WHY DO I STUDY AN EXTINCT CANADIAN LANGUAGE? 

John Steckley

THE HURON CALENDAR  

John Steckley

OAS ARCH NOTES 83-1:11-3

WERE BURBOT IMPORTANT TO THE HURON?  

John Steckley

OAS ARCH NOTES 86-1:19-23, 26 

WHOSE CHILD IS THIS?  SPECULATION REGARDING HURON INFANT BURIAL  

John Steckley

OAS ARCH NOTES 86-5:5-8 

A NEUTRAL POINT 

 John Steckley

OAS ARCH NOTES 84-4:21-3 

TOANCHE: NOT WHERE CHAMPLAIN LANDED  

John Steckley

OAS ARCH NOTES 87-2:29-3 

  • TEYOYAGON:SPLIT IN TWO  John Steckley
  • OAS ARCH NOTES 87-2:20

  • RACOONS AND BLACK SQUIRRELS: SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT  John Steckley
  • OAS ARCH NOTES 86-2:23-6 

  • OWHISTA  John Steckley
  • OAS ARCH NOTES 89-4:31-4 

  • TOANCHE: NOT WHERE CHAMPLAIN LANDED  John Steckley
  • OAS ARCH NOTES 87-2:29-3 

  • MEN:CARRIERS OF CONTAGION?  John Steckley
  • OAS ARCH NOTES 89-2:26-9 

  • WHO WERE THE KONTRANDE,ENRONNON 
  • OAS ARCH NOTES 84-3:33-35 

  • LINGUISTIC IDENTIFICATION OF FRENCH-INFLUENCED HURON VILLAGE CONSTRUCTIONJohn Steckley
  • OAS ARCH NOTES 87-3:13-14 

  • HURON SWEAT LODGES: THE LINGUISTIC EVIDENCE  John Steckley
  • OAS ARCH NOTES 89-1:7-8,14 

  • HURON BEAD ETHNOLINGUISTICS  John Steckley
  • OAS ARCH NOTES 87-4:13-15 

  • HURON ARMOUR  John Steckley
  • OAS ARCH NOTES 87-5:7-11 

  • THE CORD TRIBE OF THE HURON  John Steckley
  • OAS ARCH NOTES 82-6:15 

  • A TALE OF TWO PEOPLE John Steckley
  • OAS ARCH NOTES 85-4:9-15

  • WYANDOT CLANS in 1745 John Steckley
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  • The Early Map ''Nouvelle France":A Linguistic Analysis John Steckley
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  • TSA8ENHOHI: THE VULTURE SEEN THROUGH HURON EYES (PDF) John Steckley
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