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- Native Americans called these shores home for perhaps 15,000 years before Columbus arrived in 1492.
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The belt, donated in 1857 to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania by a great grandson of Penn, is made of white wampum with darker accent beads and depicts two figures holding hands, often interpreted as a sign of friendship and peace. Wampum refers to the shell beads used as currency by Native Americans in the eastern United States.
Most famous in Pennsylvania was the legendary treaty of Shackamaxon negotiated by William Penn (1644-1718) and Tamanend, which produced no written record. In the colonial period, treaty councils took place in Philadelphia as well as native and colonial towns within and beyond the growing colony like Shamokin, Conestoga, and Lancaster.
The disruption of Pennsylvania’s Indian relations caused a deep political rift to open between Philadelphia’s Quaker community and colonists living along the Susquehanna Valley frontier. By the 1790s, Native Americans and Pennsylvania’s European peoples were permanently estranged from each other, and no Indian nations retained secure ...
The Birth of Pennsylvania, a portrait of William Penn (standing with document in hand), who founded the Province of Pennsylvania in 1681 as a refuge for Quakers after receiving a royal deed to it from King Charles II. The history of Pennsylvania stems back thousands of years when the first indigenous peoples occupied the area of what is now ...
This copiously illustrated investigation of the history of Native Americans in Pennsylvania is a significant addition to regional archaeological surveys. This state has a diversity of climatic and geological zones that is mirrored by its earliest inhabitants, and the authors systematically guide the reader through 16,500 years of Native ...
Native Americans existed in America as long as 35,000 years ago, or more. Thus their cultural, social, and physical characteris- tics developed over thousands of years.7 Well before the arrival of Columbus, Native American tribal communities had evolved, changed, and developed separate group identities throughout the Americas.
In 1550, the Native American population of Pennsylvania was 9,000 to 10,000. In the early 1600s, when Europeans began to arrive in what would become southeastern Pennsylvania, the two main peoples were the Lenape (in the Delaware River Valley) and the Susquehannock—later known as Conestoga—in the Susquehanna River Valley.
