Wendat
/ˈwɛn.dæt/noun
A member of the Indigenous Wendat people, also known historically as the Huron, or their language.
Did you know?Wendat is the people’s own name (an endonym), while Huron was a French outsider name, so the modern word restores an older identity that colonial history tried to overwrite.
Etymological Timeline
Pre-Contact
Wendat
Wendat
“The self-name of the people now known historically as the Huron.”
16th Century
French
Huron
“A French exonym applied to the Wendat, later used in European sources.”
19th Century
English
Huron
“The common English historical name for the Wendat Confederacy and its people.”
20th Century
English
Wendat
“The revived and increasingly preferred self-designation used in scholarship and public naming.”