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THE DOWNFALL OF THE HURON NATION 



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bank of the Eiver, another on the west bank, and the third on the south 

 shore 'of Lake Erie in Ohio near Sanduslcy. These were the Hurons or 

 Wyandotts of Western Ontario, of Michigan, and of Ohio, descendants 

 of the old Hurons and Petuns of the Georgia^n Bay. What became of 

 these Western Wyandotts ? In 1842 the Wyandotts of Ohio ceded their 

 lands, which were situated in Wyandott County, a few miles south of 

 Sandusky, to the United States, and in the following year purchased 



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from the Delawares a tract of land in the India^n Territory at the forks 

 of the Missouri and Kansas Rivers. W. E. Connelly says of this 

 migration : 



" They brought with them from Ohio a well-organized Methodist 

 Church, a Freemason's Lodge, a civil Government, and a code of 

 written laws which provided for an elective council of chiefs, the 

 punishment of crime, and the maintenance of social and public order." 



