These tribes could put into the field about twelve hundred warriors; but none of them took part in the war save in one instance, when the Sacs, moved by the hope of plunder, assisted the Chippewas in the capture of Fort Michilimackinac.
The Wyandots living on the Detroit river were a remnant of the ancient Hurons of the famous mission near Lake Simcoe.

For more than a century they had been bound to the French by ties of amity.

They were courageous, intelligent, and in every way on a higher plane of life than the tribes of the Ottawa Confederacy.

Their two hundred and fifty braves were to be Pontiac's most important allies in the siege of Detroit.
South of the Michigan peninsula, about the head-waters of the rivers Maumee and Wabash, dwelt the Miamis, numbering probably about fifteen hundred.

Influenced by French traders and by Pontiac's emissaries, they took to the war-path, and the British were thus cut off from the trade-route between Lake Erie and the Ohio.
The tribes just mentioned were all that came under the direct influence of Pontiac.