Bill Moose, last Wyandot in Ohio painting by Dick Hoke |
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Wyandot Park |
Chief Leatherlips' Monument on Riverside Drive in Dublin |
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Wyandot Bill Moose and his family walked from the Wyandot settlement at Upper Sandusky to Delaware County near the current Columbus Zoo to pay tribute to Wyandot Chief Shateyaronyah commonly known as Chief Leatherlips who was executed near where the Leatherlips Monument is located just south of the zoo. The annual pilgrimage was during the running of the sap in the maple trees so the Wyandots camped and made maple syrup and sugar before returning home.
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Bill Moose
putting tobacco on Chief Leatherlips grave |
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Following the death of his parents, Bill Moose traveled with the Sells Brothers-Floto Circus for 9 years and became acquainted with Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley, and Frank Butler who were also with the circus for a time. After the circus, Bill retired to central Ohio and became known as the Last of the Wyandots
Jim Thompson and the Linworth United
Methodist Church Historical Society have done extensive research on
Bill Moose and collected and exhibit on the
Last of the Wyandots. The exhibit contains painting by Hal
Sherman and Dick Hoke as well as display panels explaining the Chief
Leatherlips/ Bill Moose and Wyandot Indian story. |
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The paintings are on loan to the Myers Inn Museum |
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Painting of Bill Moose
by Dick Hoke |
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Return to Museum | (08/15/2014) |
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