kimerajamm
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 Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 12:18 pm Post subject: The French and Indian War |
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After this, the lands of the West Branch Susquehanna River valley were under the nominal control of the Iroquois. They lived in long houses, primarily in what is now New York, and had a strong confederacy which gave them power beyond their numbers.[4] The Iroquois and other tribes used the Pine Creek Path through the gorge, traveling between a path on the Genesee River in modern New York in the north, and the Great Shamokin Path along the West Branch Susquehanna River in the south. The Seneca tribe of the Iroquois believed that the Pine Creek Gorge was sacred land and never established a permanent settlement there,[7] though they did use the path through the gorge and had seasonal hunting camps along it.[8]
To fill the void left by the demise of the Susquehannocks, the Iroquois encouraged displaced tribes from the east to settle in the West Branch watershed, including the Shawnee and Lenape (or Delaware).[4][6] The valleys of Pine Creek and its tributaries in Cummings Township were used by the Iroquois and Algonkian tribes as a hunting ground. Historians believe that there may have been a Shawnee village and burial ground just to the north of Little Pine State Park on Little Pine Creek, just a few miles from what became Upper Pine Bottom State Park.[9]
The French and Indian War (1754–1763) led to the migration of many Native Americans westward to the Ohio River basin.[4] In October 1784, the United States acquired a large tract of land, including what is now Upper Pine Bottom State Park, from the Iroquois in the Second Treaty of Fort Stanwix (this acquisition is known as the Last Purchase in Pennsylvania).[6] In the years that followed, Native Americans almost entirely left Pennsylvania;[4] however some isolated bands of natives remained in the Pine Creek Gorge until the War of 1812
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