Storms, Strength, and Survival: Wyandot Adaptations on the Kansas Prairies

Storms, Strength, and Survival: Wyandot Adaptations on the Kansas Prairies

This is the fourth post in the Historicizing Adaptation blog series, edited by Shannon Stunden Bower, which is introduced here. In July 1843, the Wyandot experienced a horrific forced removal from their homes in Tsaʔⁿduskeh (now Upper Sandusky, Ohio) to what would become Kansas City, Kansas, following the signing of the Treaty of 1842 with the US government. Lucy B. Armstrong, Wyandot leader John Armstrong’s wife, wrote about their family’s remo…