Susquehannock

The Susquehannock were a powerful Iroquoian-speaking tribe who lived along the Susquehanna River and its branches from the north end of Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, across Pennsylvania, and into southern New York.

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Susquehannock High School Principal Brian Cashman remembers Gonzalez as someone who remained upbeat despite a "rough" life.

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The Powhatan also knew the Susquehannock whom they called cannibals from painful experience, and when the English first settled Virginia, the Powhatan had placed their villages well inland to protect them from Susquehannock war parties who ranged the coastline by canoes.

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The English in Virginia soon grew interested in fur trade with the Susquehannock, and William Claiborne established a trading post on Kent Island in upper Chesapeake Bay in 1631.

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The famous Oneida sachem during the American Revolution, Skenandoa, was of Susquehannock descent as was Logan, a Mingo chief in Ohio.

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For the Susquehannock, a major blow came in September, 1655 when the Dutch seized the Swedish colonies – the Susquehannock's primary supplier of furs, and they were forced to ask the Mohawk for peace.

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Although they inflicted a major defeat on the Mohawk shortly before 1600, wars with the Iroquois had by 1570 forced the Susquehannock south into the lower Susquehanna Valley.

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The Susquehannock by this time were able to trade with the French in Canada, the Dutch on Delaware Bay, and the English in Virginia.

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The Susquehannock were one of the most formidable tribes of the mid-Atlantic region at the time of European contact.

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Smallpox hit their villages during 1654, but this affected the Mohawk as much as the Susquehannock and slowed the fighting.

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