| The Four Wendat Nations |
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| Today the Four Nations are what are left of the remaining historically recognized Wendat people. |
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Ouendat or Wendat, was the name given to the confederacy, by the original members, the Attignawantan and Attingueenongnahac Nations. Champlain was the first to use a nickname given the Wendat by early explorers; Hure or Huron. The name is in reference to the hair style of the men, who often wore a mohawk or roach. The English penned the name Wyandot initially as a misspelling of Wendat, and Wyandotte came about in a desire to hold individual and separate identity when we moved to Oklahoma. Simply stated...historically all Four Nations are Wendat. |
| There are differences amongst our Great Nations in the way we are recognized individually by the spelling of our Official Individual Nations Identities. We are known as Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma, Wyandot Nation of Kansas, Huron Wendat of Wendake and Wyandot Nation of Anderdon; collectively The Wendat Confederacy ( a copy of the treaty signed reconfirming the Confederacy) as directed by our Great Chiefs on August 27, 1999. Use of the Wendat name does not give primary recognition to the Huron Wendat of Wendake, minimizing the other three Nations. |
| The original confederacy consisted of five Nations; Attignawantan, Attingueenongnahac, Arendaronon, Tahontaenrat and Ataronchronon. Now today we have four Nations, that has split from within one Confederacy (but other Nations have since been absorbed into the Wendat, after the destruction of the original Confederacy, that were not part of the original five). |
| written by Lloyd Divine A Wyandotte Man from Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma |