Валавала, Native Americans of the Sahaptian language family and of the Plateau region culture area. The Wallawalla formerly occupied territory along the lower Walla Walla River and the east bank of the Columbia River, south of its junction with the Snake River. Their language is a separate dialect, similar to the language of the Nez Percй people. In 1805 they were visited by the Lewis and Clark expedition, which mapped out the territories west of the Mississippi River (1804-1806). In 1855 the Wallawalla were removed by treaty to the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Oregon, where they have become largely integrated with the Nez Percй, Umatilla, and Cayuse peoples.

Wampanoag, Native American people of the Algonquian-Ritwan language family and of the Eastern Woodlands culture area. They formerly occupied the territory between the eastern shore of Narragansett Bay and the Atlantic coast. By 1620 the Wampanoag were said to be settled in about 30 villages. Massasoit, a Wampanoag chief, signed the first peace treaty with the English colonists. Some decades later Massasoit's son Philip led the Wampanoag in an unsuccessful uprising known as King Philip's War.

Виннебаго, Native American people of the Siouan language family. Although Winnebago traditional culture has religious and social traits resembling those of the Siouan-speaking peoples of the Great Plains, the Winnebago's economy and daily life were those of the Eastern Woodlands hunters and trappers. In the early 17th century the Winnebago lived in eastern Wisconsin surrounded by Algonquian-speaking peoples. Following the fur trade, they subsequently occupied much of south-western Wisconsin and part of north-eastern Illinois. They ceded their lands to the United States in several early 19th-century treaties and were moved from one reservation to another before finally being given part of the Omaha reservation in Nebraska. Some resisted removal and, after 1875, were allowed to stay in Wisconsin. Today Winnebago descendants number roughly 7,000, of whom about 1,000 live in Nebraska and 3,000 in Wisconsin. Adherence to traditional language and culture is particularly strong in Wisconsin. Some follow the old religion; others are evangelical Protestants or practise peyotism.

Виандот, Native Americans of the Huron Confederation, of the Iroquoian language family, and of the Eastern Woodlands culture area. Like other Huron, they originally inhabited what is now Ontario Province. Attacked by the Iroquois, the Wyandot fled to what are now Detroit and Sandusky, Ohio, in 1649. They fought with the French in the French and Indian War, sided with the British in the American War of Independence, and divided their loyalties in the War of 1812. In 1842 the Wyandot sold their Michigan and Ohio lands and moved to Kansas; in 1867 they were forced to move to a reservation in Oklahoma where they still live. In the early 1800s they numbered about 1,250; today about 2,000 people claim Wyandot ancestry.