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Wyandotte is a town in Ottawa County, Oklahoma, about twelve miles southeast of Miami, the county seat, and part of the Joplin, Missouri metropolitan area.

Wyandotte is the tribal headquarters of the Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma, the only federally recognized tribe of Wyandot people in the United States, and the town is named for the tribe.

The Wyandotte tribe was removed to this area in 1867, the last stop on a migration that carried the Wyandot from Ontario through Michigan, Ohio and Kansas.

In 1869 the Society of Friends (Quakers) established a mission at Wyandotte, and with land donated by the Wyandotte Tribal Council the Quakers built a boarding school for Seneca, Shawnee and Wyandotte children, with classes beginning in 1872.

The community was originally called Prairie City; the post office took the name Grand River and then, in 1894, became Wyandotte, and the town was platted in 1895.

Wyandotte's first public school opened in 1909, and in 1921 it became Ottawa County's Consolidated School District Number One.

In the mid-1920s Wyandotte became nationally known for having an all-female city government, and its mayor Mamie Foster served more than five years as Oklahoma's first female mayor.

In the late 1930s the federal government built Pensacola Dam, creating Grand Lake o' the Cherokees; the lake took some of Wyandotte's land but brought lakeside homes and tourism business to the town.

In 1966 town officials discovered Wyandotte had never filed incorporation papers, so residents petitioned for an election and voted to incorporate, effective April 1966.

The Wyandotte Nation had just under 7,000 enrolled citizens as of the early 2020s, governed from its headquarters in the town.