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Susquehannock State Forest in Potter County, Pennsylvania; The Susquehannock Camps in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania; Barry Kent's Jacob My Friend: His 17th Century Account of the Susquehannock Indians is a historical novel about Dutch fur-trader and interpreter Jacob Young who married a Susquehannock woman and had several children.
Peter Stephen Du Ponceau translated the 1702 work from Swedish to English in 1834. [3] [4] Campanius's vocabulary contains just over 100 words and phrases. [4] Linguist Marianne Mithun believes this limited data is sufficient to classify Susquehannock as a Northern Iroquoian language, closely related to the languages of the Haudenosaunee ...
The English called the Susquehannock "Conestogas," after their main settlement on the Susquehanna River. The Susquehannock were decimated by smallpox, and by long conflicts with European settlers in the Chesapeake Bay region, 1642–52, and the Iroquois to the north, 1658–62. Many of them moved or intermarried with other tribes.
The Susquehannock were granted more men, cannons, and ammunition under the conditions of the treaty, in exchange for land. The treaty was signed at a time when Maryland was under Protestant control. The Susquehannock tribe were actively opposed to any form of Protestant or Catholic evangelizing measures. [2] The treaty was renewed in 1661. [3]
The Susquehannock (an Algonquian name meaning "people of the muddy river" adopted by the English of Maryland and Virginia) were known by a variety of ethnonyms such as the Andastes by the French (adapted from the Huron name Andastoerrhonon, meaning "people of the blackened ridge pole, [38]) the Minquas by the Dutch and Swedes (adapted from the ...
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The Shultz component was the site of a large, stockaded Susquehannock period Native American village. An extensive excavation of the Funk component in 1971, revealed three distinct Shenks Ferry villages on that site.