Susquehannock Emuseum

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Susquehannock E-museum

• An online museum
• by Caitlin and Zoë

Artifacts History Language Other Names
Location Food Clothing Shelter
Transportation
Traditions
Past and Present
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Additional Interesting Facts
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Resources
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Location

• The location of the Susquehannock Indian
  tribe was the northern part of Chesapeake Bay.

Red spot indicates distribution of the
Susquehannock.
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Food

• The Susquehanna were hunters and farmers.
  They ate deer, bear, rabbit, squirrel, corn,
  beans, squash, cornbread, strawberries,
  blueberries, blackberries, nettles, spinach, and
  nuts. The boys were allowed to join the men in
  hunting when they had killed a deer by themselves.

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Clothing

• The Susquehannock men usually wore shirts,
  pants, leggings, robes and capes. The men wore
  feathers in their hair and wore jewelry all over
  their body. The women wore skirts and robes
  manily made out of deer skin. They wore moccasins
  on their feet.

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Shelter

• The shelter of the Susquehannock was mainly
  the longhouse. They also might have lived in
  wigwams. Longhouses were made out of young trees
  bent in an ark to make a framework. This
  framework was covered in bark. Longhouses could
  be over 200 meters long and house up to 60
  people. A wigwam was a miniature version of a
  longhouse.

The front of a longhouse
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Artifacts

• Below left an assortment of Susquehanna
  artifacts.
• Below right Susquehanna points.
• Below center Susquehannock beadwork.

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History

• The Susquehannocks were mortal enemies with the
  Iroquois. In 1658, there was a war between the
  Iroquois and the Susquehannock. In 1661, there
  was a smallpox epidemic from which the tribe
  never fully recovered. In 1706, the Iroquois
  finally let 300 Susquehannock return to the
  Susquehanna valley, but under the watchful eye of
  the Iroquois. They became known as the Conestoga,
  from the name of their village. By 1763 there
  were only 20 Susquehannock left. Then 14
  Susquehannock were arrested and put in jail. A
  mob (known as the Paxton boys) went to the
  Conestoga village and killed the 6 Susquehannock
  they found there and burned the houses. Then they
  went to the jail, broke in, took the last
  Susquehannock on the face of the earth and beat
  them to death.

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Language

• The Susquehannock language is the language
  of the Iroquois, which is reportedly similar to
  Huron. The language is extinct today, as so are
  the Susquehannock themselves. These are some
  words in their language.
• One is Onskat
• Two is Tiggene
• Three is Axe
• Four is Raiene
• Five is Wisck
• Man is Itaeaetsin
• Woman is Achonhaeffti
• Eat is Sischijro

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Other Names

• Some other names for the Susquehannock were
  Andante, from the French. While the Dutch and the
  Swedes used the name Minqua. Captain John Smith
  called them the Sasquesahannocks and the
  Sasquesahanough. Variations of these were
  Andastaka, Andasto, Atrakwer, Gandatogué, Mengwe,
  Menquay, Mincku, and Minque. The English
  colonists in Virginia and Maryland called them
  the Susquehannock, but Pennsylvanians during the
  1700s preferred Conestoga derived from Kanastoge
  (place of the immersed pole), the name of their
  last village in Pennsylvania.

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Transportation

• We are not exactly sure what the Susquehannock
  used for transportation, but we believe they used
  birch-bark canoes because they lived near water.
  A birch-bark canoe is a very long canoe made out
  of bark from a birch tree.

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Traditions

• Since the Susquehannock are not alive today to
  tell us about their traditions, these are some
  Iroquois traditions because the Susquehannock
  were descended from the Iroquois. The
  Susquehannock loved lacrosse! Lacrosse is a game
  played with a ball and a stick with a net on the
  end. They also recorded their meetings with other
  tribes and white men on wampum belts.

A wampum belt (courtesy of Susanna)
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Past and Present

• Since the Susquehannock are not alive today,
  there can be no present traditions.

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Additional Interesting Facts

• The Susquehannock were mortal enemies with the
  Iroquois.
• The Susquehannock also lived on the Susquehanna
  river.

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Resources

• http//content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en-comm
  ons/thumb/c/ce/180px-Susquehannock_lang.png
  This site had an excellent picture of the
  distribution of the Susquehannock tribe.
• http//www.dickshovel.com/susque.html This site
  had a lot of information on the history of the
  Susquehannock as well as a lot of other names.
• http//www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/susqu
  ehanna/susquehannahist.htm This site has a long
  and detailed history of the Susquehanna tribe.
• http//www.native-languages.org/languages.htmalph
  a This site has the languages for a whole bunch
  of native American tribes. This is where we got
  the words in the Susquehannock language.

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