Susquehannock - Definition

The Susquehannock people were natives of areas adjacent to the Susquehanna River and its tributaries from the southern part of what is now New York, through Pennsylvania, to the mouth of the Susquehanna in Maryland at the north end of the Chesapeake Bay. These people were called

• Andastes by the French (from their Huron name Andastoerrhonon),
• Minquas by the Dutch and Swedes (their Delaware name meaning "treacherous"),
• Susquehannocks by the English of Maryland and Virginia (an Algonquin name meaning "people of the muddy river", and
• Conestoga by the English of Pennsylvania (from Kanastoge, meaning place of the immersed pole, the name of their village in Pennsylvania).

It is unknown what the Susquehannocks called themselves. The Susquehannocks were Iroquoian-speaking people who rejected invitations to join the Five Nations Iroquois League to the north. This made them a typical enemy of the Five Nations.

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