Susquehannock

E365175

Iroquoian-speaking people Native American people

The Susquehannock were a powerful Iroquoian-speaking Native American people who inhabited the Susquehanna River Valley in what is now Pennsylvania and Maryland during the 16th and 17th centuries.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Susquehannock canonical	8
Susquehannock people	1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Iroquoian-speaking people ⓘ Native American people ⓘ
alliedWith	English colonists in Maryland ⓘ Swedish colonists on the Delaware River ⓘ
archaeologicalCulture	Lower Susquehanna Valley culture ⓘ
conflictWith	Iroquois Confederacy ⓘ Colony of Maryland ⓘ surface form: Maryland Colony
continent	North America ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
culture	corn-beans-squash agriculture ⓘ matrilineal clans ⓘ
declineCause	European colonization ⓘ epidemic diseases ⓘ warfare with Iroquois ⓘ
economy	fur trade ⓘ hunting ⓘ maize agriculture ⓘ
ethnicGroup	Iroquoian peoples ⓘ
housing	longhouses ⓘ palisaded villages ⓘ
knownFor	control of trade along the Susquehanna River ⓘ military power in the mid-Atlantic region ⓘ
language	Susquehannock language ⓘ
languageFamily	Iroquoian languages ⓘ Northern Iroquoian ⓘ
laterName	Conestoga ⓘ
massacre	Conestoga Massacre ⓘ
neighboringGroup	Haudenosaunee ⓘ Lenape ⓘ Powhatan peoples ⓘ surface form: Powhatan Confederacy
perpetratedBy	Paxton Boys ⓘ
politicalOrganization	chiefdom ⓘ council of leaders ⓘ
region	Maryland ⓘ Pennsylvania ⓘ Susquehanna Valley ⓘ surface form: Susquehanna River Valley
religion	traditional Indigenous religion ⓘ
settlement	Conestoga Township, Pennsylvania ⓘ surface form: Conestoga, Pennsylvania
status	largely displaced by late 17th century ⓘ
subsistence	fishing ⓘ gathering wild plants ⓘ
timePeriod	16th century ⓘ 17th century ⓘ
tradeGoodsExported	furs ⓘ
tradeGoodsImported	cloth ⓘ firearms ⓘ metal tools ⓘ
tradePartner	New Netherland ⓘ Province of Maryland ⓘ

Referenced by (9)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Beaver Wars → opponent → Susquehannock ⓘ

Delaware people → neighboringPeoples → Susquehannock ⓘ

New Sweden → notableIndigenousGroup → Susquehannock ⓘ

Pennsylvania frontier → indigenousGroupPresent → Susquehannock ⓘ

Iroquoian peoples → includes → Susquehannock ⓘ

Province of Maryland → indigenousPeoples → Susquehannock ⓘ

eastern Pennsylvania → historicallyInhabitedBy → Susquehannock ⓘ

subject surface form: Eastern Pennsylvania

Erie people → neighboringGroup → Susquehannock ⓘ

Susquehanna Valley → historicallyInhabitedBy → Susquehannock ⓘ

this entity surface form: Susquehannock people