Talk:Upper Sandusky Reservation

Latest comment: 1 month ago by BTWaters in topic Removal of Wyandot to Kansas

Removal of Wyandot to Kansas

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The article currently states upon final removal the the Wyandot walked 150 miles from the reservation to Cincinnati. In A Boy's Town, William Dean Howells (1837-1920), who lived in Hamilton OH, remembers "the arrival of several canal-boat loads of genuine Indians from the Wyandot Reservation in the northwestern part of the state, on their way to new lands beyond the Mississippi. . . .There they were, crowding the decks, in their blankets and moccasins, braves and squaws and pappooses, standing about or squatting in groups." If Howell's memory is accurate, it suggests that many of the Wyandot didn't walk the whole distance but were transported at least part of the way on the Miami and Erie Canal. BTWaters (talk) 12:26, 12 April 2026 (UTC)Reply