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P5792

ID Number: P5792
Item Name: Image
Title: Wyandotte Cemetery, Anderdon Township / Cimetière Wyandotte dans la banlieue Anderdon
Title (Fre): Cimetière Wyandotte dans la banlieue Anderdon
Date: 1922
Description: Black and white photograph of the Wyandotte Cemetery in Amherstburg; most of the photograph is foliage and trees; in the centre of the photograph there are two gravestones surrounded by a short fence; the stone on the left is a tall prism shape, and is the monument to Chief Joseph White, or Mondoron, the last elected chief of the tribe before its enfranchisement; the stone on the right is shorter and rectangular; there is a fence in the background obscured by trees.
History: The Wyandots [or Wyandottes] who formerly lived on the Anderdon Reserve, on the banks of the Detroit River were a Christianized tribe. They are descended from the Wendat [Huron]-Tionontati tribal merger that occurred in the mid-seventeenth century, after the destruction of Huronia by the Iroquois in 1649. These 'Wyandot', as they came to be known, settled in the Detroit River area at the turn of the eighteenth century, at the invitation of the French. The cemetery contains many of the tribe's prominent personalities from the mid to late nineteenth century. This plot of land is the last remaining piece of land held in trust by the government for the Anderdon band of Wyandots.
Place made: Canada - Ontario - Amherstburg
Collection Name: Museum Windsor