UC team unveils Wyandot Removal Trail across Ohio
UC's Rebecca Wingo helps Wyandotte Nation reclaim Ohio’s Indigenous history
Rebecca Wingo, an associate professor of history and director of the public history program in the University of Cincinnati’s College of Arts and Sciences, is featured in a WVXU story about new historical markers honoring the Wyandot people—the last Indigenous nation forcibly removed from Ohio.
Wingo and her students partnered with the *Wyandotte Nation, headquartered in Oklahoma, to help rewrite the narrative told along the Wyandot Removal Trail from Upper Sandusky to Cincinnati. The collaboration gives the Wyandotte people authority over their own story, ensuring that the new signage reflects their history, resilience and ongoing connection to Ohio.
“Our goal was to work in partnership with the Wyandotte Nation to make sure their history is told in their own words,” Wingo said. “This project is about truth-telling and creating space for the voices that have too often been left out.”
The first of 13 new markers will be dedicated this weekend at the historic Wyandot Mission Church in Upper Sandusky, marking the beginning of the trail. Two additional markers—in Lebanon and Cincinnati—are planned for unveiling next spring.
*The two spellings of Wyandot and Wyandotte are purposeful. "Wyandotte" is used in reference to the modern-day nation headquartered in Oklahoma. "Wyandot" is inclusive of all the bands of Wyandot people dispersed across modern-day Canada and the USA.
Featured image at top of Ohio sign: Unsplash.
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