Editing Wyandotte County, Kansas (section)

===Wyandot tribe===
The county is named after the [[Wyandot people|Wyandot]] (also Wyandott or Wyandotte) Indians. They were called the Huron by the French in Canada, but called themselves Wendat. They were distantly related to the [[Iroquois]], with whom they sometimes fought. They had hoped to keep white Americans out of their territory and to make the [[Ohio River]] the border between the United States and Canada.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Pritzker |first=Barry |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y84rc5HGKpEC&dq=Origin+of+the+Wyandotte+Huron+Petun&pg=PA682 |title=Native Americans: Southwest - California - Northwest Coast - Great Basin - Plateau |date=March 9, 1998 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=9780874368369 |access-date=March 9, 2022 |via=Google Books}}</ref>

One branch of the Wyandot moved to the area that is now the state of Ohio. They generally took the course of assimilation into Anglo-American society. Many of them embraced Christianity under the influence of missionaries. They were transported to the current Wyandotte County in 1843, where they set up a community and worked in cooperation with Anglo settlers. The [[Christian Munsee]] also influenced this area's early settlement.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Rogers |first1=Edward S. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dvhyVWgWhyEC&dq=Huron+Petun+nation+Wyandotte&pg=PA59 |title=Aboriginal Ontario: Historical Perspectives on the First Nations |last2=Smith |first2=Donald B. |date=September 9, 1994 |publisher=Dundurn |isbn=9781550022308 |access-date=March 9, 2022 |via=Google Books}}</ref>

The Wyandot in Kansas set up a constitutional form of government they had devised in Ohio. They set up the territorial government for Kansas and Nebraska, and elected one of their own territorial governor.