Research project to uncover Wyandot history – UWindsor

Windsorites travel on Wyandotte and Huron Church roads, but the true Indigenous heritage behind these street names has been largely lost to time.

Enter UWindsor history professors Rob Nelson and Guillaume Teasdale. Armed with a grant of nearly $25,000 from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and matching funding from the Wyandot of Anderdon Nation in Trenton, Mich., they plan to put the Wyandot people back on the map locally.

“When one speaks of local Indigenous groups, one refers almost always only to the Three Fires Confederacy, made up of the Ojibwe, the Odawa, and the Potawatomie, all Anishanaabe-speaking peoples,” said Dr. Nelson.

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