Wyandot, sometimes known as Hurons, Wyandot, or Wyandotte, formerly inhabited southern Ontario. They named themselves "Wendat," which eventually evolved into "Wyandot". In the years preceding the European settlement, they were expelled from their territory by the Iroquois Confederacy. They established their primary settlements in Wyandot, Marion, and Crawford Counties, but also inhabited the entirety of northern Ohio and Ross County to the south. They were a confederacy of numerous Wyandot-speaking peoples who had a unique relationship with the Shawnee. Their ties with other nations in Ohio shifted with the times. They were French allies until approximately 1740, when British traders entered Ohio Country.

During the American Revolution (1775-83), Wyandot fought with the British against the Americans. In 1782, Colonel William Crawford launched an expedition against the Wyandot settlement of Upper Sandusky where he was captured and executed. In 1794, Wyandots and other Ohio nations were defeated at the Battle of Fallen Timbers and ceded most of their Ohio territory through the 1807 Treaty of Greenville. In 1842, the Indian Removal Policy required the Wyandots to relinquish their claims to their Upper Sandusky reservation and sell their land under fair market value. In 1843, the United States government relocated the Wyandot to the reservation that is now, Wyandotte County, Kansas. Following the end of the revolutionary war, Ohio Wyandot were relocated to Oklahoma.  

Today, they have four recognized bands in the United States and Canada: Wyandotte Nation (Oklahoma), Huron-Wendat Nation (Wendake, Quebec), Wyandot Nation of Anderdon (Michigan), and Wyandot Nation (Kansas).