Chief Janith English of the Wyandot Nation in Kansas said, “I hope people learn we are not angry people, but we are resilient. We didn’t just disappear in 1649, we are still here.” The migration of the Tionontaté / Petun Confederacy (who merged with the Wendat and other First Nations over the years to become the Wyandot Nation of Kansas and the Wyandotte Nation of Oklaholma) have a truly epic story of displacement.

Over a period of 200 years descendants of the Tionontaté Nation traveled from the Blue Mountain area through Quebec, to Detroit, and then on to Ohio. The Nation was eventually split between Kansas and Oklahoma. Eventually Ojibwa and other Algonquin Nations came to the territory. This is who the Crown Treated with in 1818 when they wanted the land for Settlers.