Below you will find a list of academic publications and links that may be useful to learn more about the Wyandot of Anderdon Nation!

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Huron and Wyandot Mythology by Marius Barbeau – Ottawa Government Printing Bureau

HURON WENDAT The Heritage of the Circle by Professor Georges E. Sioui – UBC Press 1999

Dispersed But Not Destroyed: A History of the Seventeenth-Century Wendat People by Dr. Kathryn Magee Labelle – UBC Press 2013

The Children of Astaentsic: A History of The Huron People to 1660 by Bruce G. Trigger McGill-Queen’s Press – MQUP, 1987

Pontiac and the Indian Uprising by Howard H Peckham – Wayne State University Press

Indian Woman and French Men by Susan Sleeper-Smith – University of Massachusetts Press

The Middle Ground by Richard White – Cambridge University Presss

Between Two Fires: American Indians in the Civil War by Laurence M Hauptman – The Free Press a division of Simon & Schuster

A Population History of the Huron-Petun AD 500-1650 by Gary Warrick – Cambridge University Press

The Sacred Wisdom of the American Indians by Larry J Zimmerman – Metro Books of Sterling Publishing

White Man’s Law: Native People in Nineteenth-Century, Canadian Jurisprudence by Sydney L. Harring. Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadina Legal History by University of Toronto Press, 1998

Colour – Coded A Legal History of Racism in Canada, from 1900 – 1950  Constance Backhouse 1999

In Their Own VoicesBuilding Urban Aboriginal Communities Jim SIlver Fernwood Publishing 2006


Women’s Literature:

Shell Shaker by LeAnne Howe Aunt Lute Books ~ 2001

The Hidden Half Studies of Plains Indian Women by Patricia Albers University  of Utah and Beatrice Medicine  University of California- Northridge University Press of America Inc. 1983

The Colour of Resistance: A Contemporary Collection of Writing by Aboriginal Women  Anthologized by Connie Fife, Sister Vision Press 1993


By Professor John Steckley:

Beyond Their Years: Five Native Women’s Lives Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 1999

Full Circle: Canada’s First Nations, 2000 co-author Bryan Cummins, Pearson Education Canada (PEC); 2nd edition, 2007, 3rd edition, 2013.

Aboriginal Policing: A Canadian Perspective co-author Bryan Cummins PEC, 2002 

Aboriginal Voices and the Politics of Representation in Canadian Sociology Textbooks Toronto: Can. Scholars’ Press, 2003

De Religione: Telling the Seventeenth Century Jesuit Story in Huron to the Iroquois University of Oklahoma Press, 2004

Words of the Huron Waterloo, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2007

Huron Dictionary: Verb Roots and Noun Roots Edwin Mellen Press, 2007

Gabriel Sagard’s Huron Dictionary Evolution Publishing, 2009

The First Jesuit Huron Dictionary Edwin Mellen Press, 2010

Learning from the Past: Five Cases of Aboriginal Justice De Sitter Publications, 2011


Historical Fiction:

Through Black Spruce, Three Day Road and The Orenda  by Joseph Boyden. ~

Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese  Douglas & McIntyre D&M Publishers Inc. 2012


For Children:

The Legend of the Lady Slipper by Kathy-jo Wargin ~ Sleeping Bear Press

The Legend of the Petoskey Stone by Kathy-jo Wargin, Thomson Gale and Sleeping Bear Press

Tears of Mother Bear by Anne Margaret Lewis, Mackinac Island Press


History and Culture:
YouTube: National Museum of the American Indian 2007 National Powwow
Learn more about Native culture at IndianZ.com
Ancient Clans of the Wyandot Tribe 
Native Web: Wyandot Resources
WikipediA: Wyandot
WikipediA: Wyandot language
Vocabulary Words in Native American Languages: Wyandot
Wyandot Authors


Of Interest:

River Raisin National Battlefield Park  http://www.nps.gov/rira/index.htm

International Wildlife Refuge http://www.fws.gov/refuge/detroit_river/

Wyandotte, Michigan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyandotte,_Michigan

Four Sacred Directions Teachings: http://www.fourdirectionsteachings.com/

National Film Board of Canada https://www.nfb.ca/search?q=indigenous+films&btnG=Search

On Cultural Appropriation and Intellectual Property of Indigenous Culture: http://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/itkpaper4

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