Miami News Record September 1969
Mrs. Cecile Boone Wallace a descendant of the Petun Wyandots, recently took Charles Willowdale, Ontario Canada for her Indian son, in the old Wyandot tradition. She presented him with a jeweled turtle pin representing the Great Turtle Clan of the tribe, and gave him the Wyandot name Tauromee, who was the last full blood chief of the tribe and who died in Kansas in 1871.
Mrs. Wallace, a long-time resident of Seneca, is a retired teacher and is knowledgeable of Wyandot history; she is a niece of the late B.N.Walker, who was a former clerk at the old agency located at Wyandotte and who wrote under the name Hen-Toh. Mrs. Wallace, now 83, said she began her schooling at the old mission (now Seneca Indian School) at the age of four.
“The teachers tried to make white children out of us” she said regretfully, “we were taught and ordered to forget the old customs and were punished if we spoke our own language.”
Mrs. Wallace is a direct descendant of Adam Brown and the Wyandot Walker families. Her Indian name is Shun-dia-Wah, which means “alone in the water.”
Garrad is the author of various publications on Ontario archaeology and history and is co-author of the forth coming authoritative text on the Khoinnontateron (Wyandot) for the Smithsonian Institutions 1976 edition of “Indians North American”.
The visitor from Canada attended the recent annual meeting of the Wyandot tribe. He has worked some 20 years in the Wyandot project, received grants from the Canadian and Ontario governments to further his research. He expects to spend several days visiting members of the tribe and recording history.