The Wyandot, or Wendat, are an indigenous people of North America, originally from what is now Southern Ontario,Quebec, Canada and Southeast Michigan. The early French explorers called the members of a four-tribe confederacy the Huron. This name may have been applied to the Wyandot people either from the French huron (peasant), because the Wyandot were an agricultural people, growing corn and sunflowers; or, according to Jesuit Father Gabriel Lallemant, the name referred to a hure, the rough-haired head of wild boars.