or Huron
North American Indian people living in Lorette, north of Quebec city, Que.
, and in southwestern Ontario, Can.; and in Kansas and Oklahoma, U.S. Their language is of the clan s, the chiefs of which formed councils. Women were influential in clan affairs, and clan matrons had the responsibility of selecting political leaders. The Wyandot were bitter enemies of tribes of the Iroquois Confederacy , with whom they competed in the fur trade. Iroquois invasions in 1648–50 devastated the tribe, forcing a remnant westward. Today the Wyandot, or Wyandotte, as they are known in the U.S. number about 6,800 in the U.S. and Canada.