Editing Wyandot people (section)

===20th century to present===
[[File:Iroquoian Village, Ontario, Canada36.JPG|thumbnail|right|Interior of a longhouse, near Toronto]]
Archeological work in Canada and the United States has revealed the Wyandot's ancestral roots in what are now Canada and the United States. It also has provided evidence about the peoples' migrations and interactions with other Indigenous groups, as well as the French and British colonists. Beginning in 1907, archaeological excavations were conducted at the Jesuit mission site near Georgian Bay. The mission has since been reconstructed as [[Sainte-Marie among the Hurons]], a living museum to interpret Wyandot and Jesuit history; it is adjacent to the [[Shrine of the Canadian Martyrs|Martyrs' Shrine]]. This Roman Catholic shrine is consecrated to the ten [[North American martyrs]].

Since the mid-century, the Wyandot pursued land claims in the United States since they had not been fully compensated for lost lands. The US federal government set up the [[Indian Claims Court]] in the 1940s to address grievances filed by various Native American tribes. The court adjudicated claims, and Congress allocated $800 million to compensate tribes for losses due to treaties broken by the US government, or losses of land due to settlers who invaded their territories. The Wyandot filed a land claim for compensation due to the forced sale of their land in the Ohio region to the federal government under the 1830 [[Indian Removal Act]], which forced Native Americans to move west of the Mississippi River to an area designated as [[Indian Territory]]. Originally the United States paid the Wyandot for their land at the rate of 75 cents per acre, but the land was worth $1.50 an acre.<ref name="New York Times 1985">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/02/11/us/around-the-nation-wyandot-indians-win-5.5-million-settlement.html |agency=Reuters |title=Wyandot Indians Win $5.5 Million Settlement |work=The New York Times |date=February 11, 1985 |access-date=September 10, 2010}}</ref>

Although Congress intended to have a deadline by which Indigenous claims had to be settled, Federal district courts continued to hear land claims and other cases for compensation. In February 1985, the US government finally agreed to pay descendants of the Wyandot $5.5 million to settle the tribe's outstanding claim. The decision settled claims related to the 143-year-old treaty. In 1842 the United States had forced the tribe to sell their Ohio lands for less-than-fair value. A spokesman for the [[Bureau of Indian Affairs]] said that the government would pay $1,600 each, in July 1985, to 3,600 people in Kansas and Oklahoma who could prove they were descendants of Wyandot affected by Indian Removal.<ref name="New York Times 1985"/>

During the 20th century, contemporary Wyandot continued to assert their culture and identity. On August 27, 1999, representatives of the far-flung Wyandot bands from Quebec, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Michigan gathered at their historic homeland in [[Midland, Ontario]]. There they formally re-established the Wendat Confederacy.

There are also groups in [[List of organizations that self-identify as Native American tribes#Kansas]] and [[List of organizations that self-identify as Native American tribes#Michigan]] who [[Self-identified Native American|self-identify]] as Wyandot descendants.