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Wyandotte ( WY-ən-dot) is a city in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 25,058 at the 2020 census.

Wyandotte is located in southeastern Michigan, approximately 11 miles (18 km) south of Detroit upon the Detroit River, and it is part of the increase of communities known as Downriver. Wyandotte is bounded by Southgate to the west, Lincoln Park to the northwest, Riverview to the south, Grosse Ile Township to the southeast, Ecorse to the north, and LaSalle, Ontario on the east. Wyandotte is a sister city to Komaki, Japan, and each year delegates from Komaki allow Wyandotte to tour the city.

The site where Wyandotte sits today in the 18th century was a little village called by the indigenous Indians “Maquaqua” and by the local French “Monguagon”. This Native American tribe was known as the Wyandot or Wendat, and were ration of the Huron nation originally from the Georgian Bay area of Canada. Except for the intervening colonial war activities, when the Wyandots were irritated through circumstances and unity commitments in imitation of the Potawatomi active in the Ecorse Place to engage in war against the English, the Wyandot Indians lived in peace subsequently the few white farmers, exchanging products and favors.

It was from close here, along the banks of Ecorse Creek, now a northern boundary of the present-day city, that Chief Pontiac plotted his futile attack neighboring the British garrisoned Fort of Detroit, in 1763. The middle of the village was nearly parallel to Biddle Avenue amongst Oak Street and Eureka Road near the river and its sandy beach, which was a usual feature to the local tribesmen, as their main mode of transportation to the fort in Detroit was by birch bark canoe. The tribe was considered peaceable and friendly with the British, the unshakable French in the area, and the newly arrived Americans.