Quick Facts

1. Who: Wyandot

2. Where: northern Ohio

3. When: 1700’s

4. Food: beans, squash, sunflowers

5. Clothing: blackened buckskin breech cloths, fur robes, tunics, leather belts, skirts, overshoes made of corn husks

6. Shelter: rectangular barrel-roofed houses

7. Tools: spears, bow and arrows, war clubs, tomahawks, harpoon, net

The Wyandot have a Feast of the Dead. Every year at this time they dig up the remains of all who has died in the past year and put them in a common grave and bless them so they can all go to heaven.

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