Wyandot Tribe

Historical marker location:

Wyandotte, Oklahoma

( Marker is on State Highway 137, 0.2 miles north of U.S. 60, on the left when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1959

The Wyandots moved from Kansas to the north side of the Seneca Reservation in Indian Territory in the 1850s but did not control their own affairs until passage of the Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act of 1936.

Oklahoma was originally home to many Native American tribes, including the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole nations. These tribes were forcibly relocated to Oklahoma from their ancestral lands in the southeastern United States during the 1830s and 1840s in a tragic event known as the Trail of Tears.