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Wyandot on Kentucky’s northern frontier
The Wyandot (Wendat/Huron descendants), an Iroquoian people whose towns clustered north of the Ohio after Beaver Wars upheaval, still used Kentucky for winter camps and hunts and joined British-allied war parties against the stations.
In August 1782 Wyandot warriors fought beside Shawnee, Lenape, and Capt. William Caldwell’s Rangers at the Siege of Bryan Station, then helped spring the ambush at Blue Licks three days later—the fight that killed Col. John Todd, Col. Stephen Trigg, and Israel Boone. No Wyandot camp site in Kentucky is documented in the sources cited here.
Treat them as their own nation in the record, not a footnote to a generic “Indian raid.”
- Blue Licks Battlefield (ExploreKYHistory) on ExploreKYHistory (opens in a new tab)
- Bryan Station on Wikipedia (opens in a new tab)
- Bryan’s Station, Historical Marker #21 (Kentucky Historical Society) on Kentucky Historical Society (opens in a new tab)
- History (Wyandotte Nation) on wyandotte-nation.org (opens in a new tab)
- A. Gwynn Henderson, “Dispelling the Myth: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Indian Life in Kentucky,” Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 90, no. 1 (1992) (PDF) on preservationkentucky.org (opens in a new tab)
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Snowden, Shannon. "Wyandot on Kentucky’s northern frontier." Kentucky History Drive. Published September 24, 2026. Last revised October 1, 2026. https://kyhistorydrive.com/stories/wyandot-on-kentuckys-northern-frontier/.
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Snowden, Shannon. "Wyandot on Kentucky’s northern frontier." Kentucky History Drive, published 24 Sept. 2026, last revised 1 Oct. 2026, https://kyhistorydrive.com/stories/wyandot-on-kentuckys-northern-frontier/.
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