Editing Wyandot people (section)

==Religion==
Huron medicine men were called ''arendiwane'', a term denoting a person with great supernatural power. A ''arendiwane'' diagnosed diseases by consulting dreams; during or after his dreams, a spirit known as an ''oki'' would visit him in the form of a fire, ghost, or bird (such as a crow or eagle) and explain the cause of the illness and its cure.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Tooker |first1=Elisabeth |author1-link=Elisabeth Tooker |title=An Ethnography of the Huron Indians, 1615-1649 |date=July 1991 |publisher=Syracuse University Press |pages=91–92}}</ref> These medicine men also administered to the dying, interpreting their dreams and visions. The Hurons believed that those who were dying had a special connection to the world of the supernatural and took their dreams and visions very seriously, considering them especially trustworthy sources of information. Requests from the dying were considered "incontestable."<ref name="Seeman-2001">{{cite journal |last1=Seeman |first1=Erik R. |title=Reading Indians' Deathbed Scenes: Ethnohistorical and Representational Approaches |journal=The Journal of American History |date=June 2001 |volume=88 |issue=1 |pages=17–47 |doi=10.2307/2674917 |jstor=2674917}}</ref>

Their beliefs surrounding visions and dreams likely carried over when Hurons began converting to Christianity. Several accounts of seventeenth-century Christianized Hurons on their deathbed include visions of Heaven and Jesus Christ, which influenced believers' lives on earth. For example, one account describes a dying woman requesting a bead bracelet from a local missionary named [[Jean de Brébeuf]], because she had learned in a dying vision that her recently deceased sister had received such a bracelet from him.<ref name="Seeman-2001"/>

According to Wyandot mythology, ''Iosheka'' created the first man and woman and taught them many skills, including all their religious ceremonies and rituals, the ability to fight evil spirits, healing, and the use of the sacrament of tobacco.