OCR Text |
Show LAST OF THE WVANUOTTE8. It is announced that in the death of Margaret Solomon, near Sandusky, Ohio, tho last of tho onoo powerful tribo of Wyandotte Indians passed, away. Tho Wyandottos were a branch of the Iroquois family, or tho Hurons, as the French writers called them. Thoso Indians called themselves Wendats or Zendats, and wore first known at Montreal, Mon-treal, where in the middle of the seventeenth seven-teenth century they became Roman Catholics under the instructions of the French missionaries. Having, as allies of other tribes, become involved in a war with the Iroquois, they were nearly exterminated, and the remnant emigrated emi-grated to the country around Lake Superior. In 1070 they were gathered at Mackinaw, under the care of F'ather Marquette. Thonce they went to Detroit, whore they furnished 400 warriors war-riors to tho ICnirlish in 1812. In 1820 they were settled, to the number of 000, near the headwaters of the Sandusky rivor in Ohio, and in 1832, by a treaty with the United States government, they romoved to Kansas, where tho few remaining members of the tribo eventually even-tually acquired the rights of citizenship and oaoh became the owner of a farm of forty acres. We doubt if Margaret Solomon was tho last of tho tribe, as there are in all probability some of the j members yet living in Kansas. |