Side A: After decades of resistance and failed negotiations, the Wyandot were the last tribe removed from Ohio in 1843. Their removal route began on the Grand Reserve in Upper Sandusky and extended 150 miles to Cincinnati where nearly 700 Wyandots boarded steamboats bound for Kansas Territory. There, new settlers continued to place pressure on Wyandot lands. The Wyandotte Nation is now headquartered in Oklahoma.
Side B: The Wyandots had been traveling for a week when they reached Lebanon. Their arrival, reporters noted, “made quite an imposing appearance.” The procession of Wyandots with hundreds of horses and wagons drew throngs of curious spectators in every town along their route. Reverend James Wheeler, the Methodist missionary accompanying the Wyandot, witnessed that the crowds, although intending no harm, treated the Wyandots “in such a way as to cause the Indians to think that the whites were very poor hands to teach good manners.” The weary nation continued southward toward present-day Sharonville.
Sponsors: William G. Pomeroy Foundation, The Wyandotte Nation, City of Lebanon, Ohio History Connection
