Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-312) and index.
Contents
Chapters : Geology - "Nature's handiwork on display" / Economic Development - "A race for the river!" / Logging - "The trees came down like tall grass" / Floods - "We are going to try to beat the river" / Pollution - "A trifling inconvenience" / Nuclear Development - "There is absolutely no danger" / Farming - "Stewards of this garden" / Shad Restoration - "You can't be half-hearted" / The River and the Bay - "A long-term investment"
Summary
"Stranahan tells the sweeping story of one of America's great rivers - ranging in time from the Susquehanna's geologic origins to the modern threats to its ecosystem, describing human settlements, industry and pollution, and recent efforts to save the river and its "drowned estuary", the Chesapeake Bay. The result is a unique natural history of the vast Susquehanna watershed and a compelling look at environmental issues of national importance. Stranahan's vivid account of her experiences on the Susquehanna, including interviews with the colorful and engaging people she met along its shores, captures the river's continuing ability to fire the imagination, to stir the senses, to inspire dreams.Stranahan describes how canal builders, loggers, miners, and industrialists nearly destroyed the source of their wealth. And she tells of the river's frequent retaliation with historic, rampaging floods. Today, the Susquehanna is a study in contrasts: clean and healthy again along much of its length, in a few places still so polluted that nothing can survive. New threats from urbanization, modern agriculture, and nuclear power make the future uncertain. But Stranahan finds reasons for optimism." [from Goodreads]
Contributions to the Indian history of the lower Susquehanna Valley : the annual report of the Committee on Archaeology of the Dauphin County Historical Society
Historical Context and Background : Thaddeus Stevens the Lawyer Reah Frazer, William Jenkins , and the famed Lancaster bar Pennsylvania's Canals , Internal Improvements and the politics of development : an overview Document Transcription Critical Analysis The Susquehanna Canal Company : A Dam Nuisance Thaddeus Stevens and Reah Frazer in Lancaster Conclusion Appendices
This report is a compilation of the waterbodies and places in and around the Susquehanna River Basin that have names whose origins are directly linked to Native Americans.
Bucknell University Press, co-published with The Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, Inc.,
Date of Publication
[2013]
Physical Description
xv, 225 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Series
Stories of the Susquehanna Valley
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-218) and index.
Contents
Native American prehistory in the Susquehanna River Valley / David J. Minderhout -- Pennsylvania's Native Americans: History timeline / David J. Minderhout -- A story in stone: The Susquehanna's rock art legacy / Paul A. Nevin -- Native Americans in the Susquehanna River region: 1550 to today / David J. Minderhout -- "Blood Quantum" and lenape tradition / Donald R. Repsher -- Our story, ourselves: Oral histories of contemporary Native Americans / David J. Minderhout, Andrea T. Frantz, and Jessica D. Dowsett -- Oral tradition of one family of Pennsylvania Seneca descendants / Gerald E. Dietz -- Kiiloona Ktaaptoonehna: Munsee language revitalization on the Susquehanna's North branch / Susan M. Taffe Reed -- Lenapeyok neki: Those are lenopes / Kenneth R. Hayden -- Native lands country park / David J. Minderhout -- Afterword / Ann N. Dapice.
Summary
"This first volume in the new Stories of the Susquehanna Valley series describes the Native American presence in the Susquehanna River Valley, a key crossroads of the old Eastern Woodlands between the Great Lakes and the Chesapeake Bay in northern Appalachia. Combining archaeology, history, cultural anthropology, and the study of contemporary Native American issues, contributors describe what is known about the Native Americans from their earliest known presence in the valley to the contact era with Europeans. They also explore the subsequent consequences of that contact for Native peoples, including the removal, forced or voluntary, of many from the valley, in what became a chilling prototype for attempted genocide across the continent. Euro-American history asserted that there were no native people left in Pennsylvania (the center of the Susquehanna watershed) after the American Revolution. But with revived Native American cultural consciousness in the late twentieth century, Pennsylvanians of native ancestry began to take pride in and reclaim their heritage. This book also tells their stories, including efforts to revive Native cultures in the watershed, and Native perspectives on its ecological restoration. While focused on the Susquehanna River Valley, this collection also discusses topics of national significance for Native Americans and those interested in their cultures."--Publisher's website.
The land and earliest Americans -- The Paleo-Indian hunters -- The archaic Indian hunters, fishers, and gatherers -- The woodland period, horticultural village life -- The Shenks Ferry Indians -- The Susquehannock Indians, trade and warfare.