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This article details the History of Wyandotte, Michigan. Wyandotte has a long history, dating back for hundreds of years. ==Early Native American presence== Around 1732, the Wyandot Indians (Native Americans) followed Antoine de Lamothe Cadillac and the French to Detroit, Michigan and decided to settle along the banks of the Detroit River. Here there was a stretch of high bank free from marshy front - offering easy access to the drinking water in the river, good fishing and hunting and providing access to Canada to contact their friends and relatives, who had established in a village in the Amherstburg region. The soil was fertile, sandy loam, ideal for agriculture. Their territory extended from the Gibraltar and Flat Rock region through present-day Wyandotte. The Wyandotte were far from the enemy, protected by deep old growth forests, somewhat isolated from adjacent tribes, and on friendly terms with the neighboring white man - the village was not walled or palisaded. Government affairs were conducted in the Main Village, Gibraltar, the headquarters for the Council House, Achieves, and International Council Fires. The village was given the name "Maquaqua", or "Monguagon" in French. Chief Walk-in-the-Water headed the Monguagon village. His totem sign was the turtle (thus "Walk-in-the-Water"). A spacious lodge was built outside of the village on what is now the west side of Biddle Avenue some distance north of Trenton. Except for the intervening colonial war activities, when the Wyandots were forced through circumstances and treaty commitments with the Potawatomi living in the Ecorse area to engage in war against the English, the Wyandot Indians lived in peace with the few white farmers, exchanging products and favors. The government, through a series of treaties, 1789-1808-1812-1842, decided to push them farther west. Walk-in-the-Water petitioned that "they had peacefully cultivated the land they had lived on from time immemorial. They allege that they have built valuable houses and improvements on the land and have learned the use of the plow, etc., and they pray for a title which shall prevent their being dispossessed at the end of fifty years as provided by the act of Congress." In response to this plea, the government, in 1818, negotiated a treaty granting a tract of of land on the Huron River. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「History of Wyandotte, Michigan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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