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Wyandotte Nation Casino
100 Jackpot Pl, Wyandotte, OK74370
Industry:Hotel/Motel Operation Executive/Legislative Combined
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Members (9):David Baughn (Facilities Director)
David Brown (Chief Technology Officer)
Brenda House (Director)
Billy Friend (Chief)
Carla King (Controller)
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Member:Kelly Carpino (Controller)
SIC:5065 - Electronic Parts and Equipment, Not Elsewhere Classified
Company size:19
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5 S 1St St, Wyandotte, OK74370
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Wyandotte Nation Police Department
14 S Main, Wyandotte, OK74370
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Rural Route 506, Wyandotte, OK74370
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506 N Main St, Wyandotte, OK74370
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Wyandotte High School
PO Box 360, Wyandotte, OK74370
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Addresses:15 Turtle Dr C/o Janice Woody, Wyandotte, OK74370 (Mailing)
2 Turtle Dr, Wyandotte, OK74370
PO Box 506, Wyandotte, OK74370
15 Turtle Dr, Wyandotte, OK74370
Members (7):Kelly Carpino (Chief Financial Officer, Principal)
Janice Woody (Controller, inactive)
Julie West (Manager, inactive)
Terri Wyrick (Manager, inactive)
Julie Wills (Manager, inactive)
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TIN:17315657548
Categories:Government Contractors, Native American Government Offices
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Addresses:64700 E 60Th Hwy, Wyandotte, OK74370
64700 E Highway 60, Wyandotte, OK74370
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WYANDOTTE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION, INC
Melbourne, FL · Tulsa, OK
Status:Inactive
Inactive reason:Revoked For Annual Report
Registration:Aug 23, 1999
Inactive since:Sep 19, 2003
Addresses:1600 Sarno Road Suite 107, Melbourne, FL32935 (Physical)
4525 S.sheridan Rd Suite 105, Tulsa, OK74145 (Mailing)
4525 S Sheridan Rd, Tulsa, OK74145
State ID:F99000004423
Business type:Foreign Not For Profit Corporation
Members (6):Leaford Chief Bearskin (President, inactive), 64150 E. Hwy 60, Wyandotte, OK74370 (Physical)
Jim Bland (President, Vice President, inactive), 64150 E. Hwy 60, Wyandotte, OK74370 (Physical)
Ramona Reid (Secretary, inactive), 64150 E. Hwy 60, Wyandotte, OK74370 (Physical)
Billy Friend (Director, inactive), 64150 E. Hwy 60, Wyandotte, OK74370 (Physical)
Rodney Crocker (Director, inactive), 4528 S.sheridan, Tulsa, OK74145 (Physical)
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Agent:Crocker, Rodney
1600 Sarno Rd, Melbourne, FL32935 (Physical)
EIN:731551277
Status:Inactive
Registration:Dec 8, 1977
State ID:1400314443
Business type:Domestic Not For Profit Corporation Church
Agent:Robert Brodrick
14992 S Cayuga Rd, Wyandotte, OK74370
Status:Inactive
Registration:Mar 14, 2006
State ID:2112099436
Business type:Domestic Not For Profit Corporation
Agent:Wyandotte Ministerial Alliance Incorporated
10250 S Highway 10, Wyandotte, OK74370
Status:Inactive
Registration:Dec 11, 1916
State ID:1900020211
Business type:Domestic For Profit Business Corporation
Status:Inactive
Registration:Jun 9, 1999
State ID:2100624872
Business type:Domestic Not For Profit Corporation
Agent:David Mccullough %michael Minnis & Associates, Pc
Status:Inactive
Registration:Jan 14, 1916
State ID:2100017877
Business type:Domestic Not For Profit Corporation
Status:Inactive
Registration:Sep 16, 1907
State ID:1911003836
Business type:Domestic For Profit Business Corporation
Status:Inactive
Registration:Apr 27, 1912
State ID:1300010304
Business type:Domestic Not For Profit Corporation
Status:Inactive
Registration:Sep 11, 1897
State ID:1911003838
Business type:Domestic For Profit Business Corporation
Wyandotte Nation Casino Wyandotte Ok
Status:Inactive
Registration:Oct 22, 1902
State ID:1900000298
Business type:Domestic For Profit Business Corporation
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 4,957[1] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| United States (Oklahoma, Kansas) | |
| Languages | |
| English | |
| Religion | |
| Christianity, traditional tribal religion | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Wendat (Huron), Tionontati (Petun), and Wenrohronon (Wenro)[2] |
The Wyandotte Nation is a federally recognized Native American tribe in Oklahoma. They are descendants of the Wendat Confederacy and Native Americans with territory near Georgian Bay and Lake Huron. Under pressure from Iroquois and other tribes, then from European settlers and the United States government, the tribe gradually moved south and west to Ohio, Michigan, Kansas and finally Oklahoma in the United States.
Smaller groups of Wendat descendants live in Kansas and Michigan. The Huron-Wendat Nation has a reserve at Wendake, Quebec, Canada, with a population close to that of the Wyandotte Nation.
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Government[edit]
The headquarters of the federally recognized Wyandotte Nation is in Wyandotte, Oklahoma, and their tribal jurisdictional area is in Ottawa County, Oklahoma.[1]
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Billy Friend is the elected Chief, currently serving a four-year term. The Wyandotte Nation issue their own tribal vehicle tags and operate their own housing authority. They have a ten-man police department providing 24-hour law enforcement response to the Nation and surrounding area.[1]
Of the 4,957 enrolled Wyandottes, 1,218 live in the state of Oklahoma.[1] Enrollment is based in lineal descent; that is, the tribe has no minimum blood quantum requirement.
Economic development and programs[edit]
The tribe operate the Bearskin Fitness Center, the Wyandotte Nation Environmental Department, and the Bearskin Health and Wellness Center. The Turtle Speaks is the tribal newspaper.[3]
The tribe also owns the Wyandotte Nation Casino in Wyandotte, Oklahoma.[4] Additionally, the tribe owns a truck stop, a fuel station, and a smoke shop. They issue their own tribal vehicle tags.[1]
They also own the 7th Street Casino in the former Scottish Rite Masonic Temple in Kansas City, Kansas. They also have legal control of the nearby Wyandot National Burying Ground.[5]In 2010 the Wyandotte Nation acquired land in Park City, Kansas, with the stated intention of building a gaming casino and hotel.[6]
Events[edit]
The tribe's annual powwow is held in Oklahoma during the first weekend of September and features contest dancing, gourd dancing, and a social stomp dance.[7]
History[edit]
The Wendat, their name for themselves in their language, or Wyandotte, as they came to be called after merging with other related groups, are Iroquoian-speaking Indians from the eastern woodlands. Their name is thought to mean 'dwellers on a peninsula' or 'islanders.'[8]
The first Wendat Confederacy was created around 1400 CE, when the Attignawantan (Bear Nation) and Attigingueenongnahac (Cord People) combined forces. They, in turn, were joined by the Arendaronon (People of the Rocks), Ataronchronon (People of One Lodge), and the Tahontaenrat (Deer Nation). At one time scholars believed these peoples to be remnant bands of the St. Lawrence Iroquoians, who established villages located near present-day Montreal visited by early French explorers.[9] But, archeologists have excavated large, 16th-century settlement sites north of Lake Ontario, with extensive evidence leading them to conclude that this was the original site of the coalescence of the Wendat people. They later migrated to the area near Georgian Bay, where they were encountered by French explorers in the early 17th century.
French explorers encountered the Wyandotte around 1536 and dubbed them the Huron. They were fierce enemies of the nations of the Iroquois Confederacy, then based in present-day New York. Decimated by smallpox epidemics, the Wendat Confederacy became seriously weakened during the early decades of the early seventeenth century. In 1649, they were defeated by the Iroquois and most migrated southwest for safety, where they settled with Odawa and Illinois tribes.[8] Others moved east into Quebec.
Remnants of the associated Wendat and Petun peoples came together as a new group, which became known as the Wyandot of Wyandotte. By the beginning of the 18th century, the Wyandotte people had moved into the Ohio River Valley, extending into areas of what would become West Virginia, Indiana and Michigan. Around 1745, large groups settled near Sandusky, Ohio. After the American Revolution, a treaty signed with the United States in 1785 confirmed their landholdings. However, the 1795 Treaty of Greenville greatly reduced its size.[8]
The 1817 Treaty of Fort Meigs reduced the Wyandotte lands drastically, leaving the people only small parcels in Ohio. In 1842, the Wyandotte lost all of their land east of the Mississippi River, under pressure of the United States government policy to remove the Native Americans to the West.[8] They made a treaty with the U.S. government by which they were to be compensated for their lands.
They were removed to the Delaware Reservation in present-day Kansas, then considered Indian Territory.[8] During this migration and the early months, their people suffered much illness. In 1843, survivors buried their dead on a high ridge overlooking the Missouri River in what became the Huron Cemetery in present-day Kansas City, Kansas. In 1971 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is now called the Wyandot National Burying Ground.
After the American Civil War, Wyandotte people who had not become citizens of the United States in 1855 in Kansas, were removed a final time in 1867 to present-day Oklahoma. They were settled on 20,000 acres (81 km2) in the northeast corner of Indian Territory.[8] The Seneca, Shawnee, and Wyandotte Industrial Boarding School, also called the Wyandotte Mission, opened for classes in Wyandotte, Oklahoma in 1872.[10]
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In 1893, the Dawes Act required that the tribal communal holdings in the Indian Territory be divided into individual allotments. The land was divided among the 241 tribal members listed on the Dawes Rolls. The Wyandotte members in Oklahoma retained some tribal structure, and still had control of the communal property of the Huron Cemetery, by then annexed into Kansas City.[8]
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Reorganization as a nation[edit]
In 1937, seizing the opportunity presented by the US Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act of 1934 to regain tribal structure and self-government, the Wyandotte organized themselves into the Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma,[8] later changing their name to simply Wyandotte Nation, and achieved federal recognition.[11] The act enabled Native Americans to hold property in common again, and to develop self-government and sovereignty.
Termination efforts[edit]
On 1 August 1956 the US Congress passed Public Law ch. 843, 70 Stat. 893 to terminate the Wyandotte Tribe of Oklahoma as part of the federal Indian termination policy. Three years were allotted for completion of termination.[12] One of the stipulations required that a parcel of land in Kansas City, Kansas, reserved as the Huron Cemetery, which had been awarded to the Wyandot by treaty on 31 January 1855, was to be sold by the United States. Litigation was filed by a group of Absentee Wyandot against the United States and Kansas City, prohibiting the federal government from fulfilling the terms of the termination statute and ultimately preventing termination of the Wyandotte Nation.[13] The Bureau of Land Management records confirm that the Federal Register never published the termination of the Wyandotte lands and thus they were never officially terminated.[14]
When Congress restored the other Oklahoma Tribes, it included the Wyandotte in the repeal. On 15 May 1978, in a single Act entitled Public Law 95-281, the termination laws were repealed, and the three tribes were reinstated with all rights and privileges they had prior to termination.[15]
Huron Cemetery[edit]
For decades, the Huron Cemetery was a source of controversy between the Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma and Wyandot descendants in Kansas. The former wanted to sell the property for redevelopment. Kansas City was also eager for that development, as the city had annexed all of the property in the area. By 1907 it was a prime site; nearby was a new Carnegie Library, the Grund Hotel, and the Masonic Temple under reconstruction after a fire.
In 1906, the Wyandotte Nation authorized the Secretary of Interior to sell the cemetery, with the bodies to be reinterred at nearby Quindaro Cemetery. This proposal was opposed by Lyda Conley and her two sisters in Kansas City, who launched what became a multi-year campaign to preserve the burying ground. They achieved much support. In 1916 Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas, who was of partially Native American descent, won passage of a bill protecting the cemetery as a national park and providing some funds for maintenance. Ironically, it was the dispute over this cemetery, that saved the tribe from termination during the 1950s.
Over the years, the Wyandotte Nation continued to explore ways to increase revenues for the tribe, including redevelopment of the Huron Cemetery. Descendants in Kansas vigorously resisted these efforts. In 1971, the cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 1998, the Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma and the Wyandot Nation of Kansas reached agreement to preserve the Wyandot National Burying Ground for religious, cultural and related uses appropriate to its sacred history and use.
Wendat Confederacy[edit]
In August 1999, the Wyandotte Nation joined the contemporary Wendat Confederacy, together with the Wyandot Nation of Kansas, Huron-Wendat Nation of Wendake (Quebec), and the Wyandot of Anderdon Nation in Michigan. The tribes pledged to provide mutual aid to each other in a spirit of peace, kinship, and unity.[16]
This followed an important meeting of Huronia reconciliation in Midland, Ontario, Canada, attended by representatives of the Iroquois Confederacy, Wyandotte nations, British, French, Dutch, Anglican Church and Catholic Jesuit brothers. The weekend of events was organized by the Huronia Reconciliation Committee.[17]
See also[edit]
- Leaford Bearskin (1921–2012), Chief of the Wyandotte Nation (1983–2011)
- Wyandot for early tribal history in Ohio
References[edit]
- ^ abcde2011 Oklahoma Indian Nations Pocket Pictorial Directory.Oklahoma Indian Affairs Commission. 2011: 39. Retrieved Feb 8, 2012.
- ^General History.Google of Oklahoma. 2016(retrieved Feb 8, 2016)
- ^'Community'. Retrieved September 13, 2014.
- ^'500 Nations: Wyandotte Nation Casino'. Retrieved September 13, 2014.
- ^John Carras, 'Wyandotte/Wyandot peace pact signed', Kansas City Kansan, 15 Jul 1998, on Wyandot Nation of Kansas, accessed 24 Feb 2009
- ^'Wyandotte Nation buys land near Park City in hopes of building a casino'. kansas. Retrieved September 13, 2014.
- ^Community: Annual Pow-wow. Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma. 2008 (retrieved Feb 8, 2009)
- ^ abcdefghStansfield, Rick. 'Wyandotte', Oklahoma Historical Society's Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History. 2009 (retrieved Feb 8, 2009)
- ^History Briefs.Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma. 2008 (retrieved Feb 8, 2009)
- ^O'Dell, Larry. 'Wyandotte'. Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture. Retrieved October 11, 2014.
- ^Federal Register, Volume 73, Number 66 dated April 4, 2008 (73 FR 18553). pdf file (retrieved Feb 26, 2009)
- ^'Public Law 887'. US Code. Retrieved December 29, 2014.
- ^'Sac And Fox Nation Of Missouri, et al. v. Gale A. Norton, et al. No. 00_3063'. United States Court Of Appeals Tenth Circuit. Retrieved December 29, 2014.
- ^'Indian Issues: BLM's Program for Issuing Individual Indian Allotments on Public Lands Is No Longer Viable'.
- ^'Public Law 95-281'. US Code. Retrieved December 29, 2014.
- ^'The Wendat Confederacy', August 27, 1999, Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma. 2008 (retrieved Feb 8, 2009)
- ^Ed Pelletier, 'History Revisited by Descendants', Free Press Special, Jun 25, 1999, at Wyandot Nation of Kansas, accessed Feb 26, 2009
External links[edit]
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