Wyandotte Nation

And I know that OCSE is working to provide samples and best practice options.

One of the last tribes that became a startup was the Wyandotte Nation.

And they put in A wonderful application, like the feds loved it.

And I know that they had asked for their permission to be able to share that with others who wanted to do the startup.

And I've seen very little about the origin of the name Ontario in all of this, which I think is really fascinating.

USA Today talked to leaders from the Wyandotte Nation, which comes from the Huron-Wendat people.

And the Huron-Wendat lived across the Great Lakes region and up into not northern Ontario, but like northern Ontario if you live in southern Ontario.

Up to like, you know, to Penetanguishene and below Lake Superior.

The path to writing the songs for Jolly Roger Tailgunner, interestingly, eventually led me to Chief Leiford Bearskin of Oklahoma's Wyandotte Indian Reservation.

Chief Bearskin wasn't just the chief of the Wyandotte Nation, he had also piloted a B-24 as part of the Jolly Rogers in the same squadron as Jasper's Jokers.

Lieutenant Bearskin's plane was called Big Chief And that's what I called the song I wrote about him and his history.

That history reached back to 1610 when his tribe encountered the French who were looking to colonize North America.

As Sarah Lisi, a member station KOSU reports, one tribe in Oklahoma says the name change erases a part of their history.

Billy Friend is the chief of the Wyandotte Nation, a tribe now headquartered in northeast Oklahoma, but with history in the Great Lakes region.

Friend says the word Ontario predates both Canada and the U.S. and came from his ancestors' language, Wendat.

It means the lake is big or beautiful.

Sarah Lisi of member station KOSU reports one tribe in Oklahoma says the name change erases a part of their history.

Billy Friend is the chief of the Wyandotte Nation, a tribe now headquartered in northeast Oklahoma, but with history in the Great Lakes region.

Friend says the word Ontario predates both Canada and the U.S. and came from his ancestors' language, Wendat.

It means "the lake is big or beautiful."

1777 to 1778, at least one student, Henry Bobby.

Catawba Indian Nation, Pamunkey Indian Tribe, Wyandotte Nation, Okaneechi Band of Saponi,

United Katoowa Band, Chickahominy Indian Tribe, Cherokee Nation, Halawa-Saponi Indian Tribe,

Nancemund Indian Nation, Wyandotte of Anderton Nation, Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, Rappahannock Tribe,

Saponi.

Upper Mattapani Indian Tribe.

Wyandotte Nation of Kansas.

Kansas Delaware Tribe.