Giants in America; Hidden History of the Susquehannock; Who founded Washington DC
Howdy ya’ll. Let’s take a step back into the most important lost histories of America, focusing on the Susquehannock Indigenous People of the Susquehanna River and beyond. For hundreds of years they dominated the landscapes of Maryland, Virginia, New York, Pennsylvania, and even Washington D.C. We will weigh fact against theory, knowing that all of the current narrative is based on accounts at least 250 years old, as we are told the last of the Susquehannock were lost in 1763. Yet, the profound impact the Susquehannock had on American History is immeasurable. Furthermore, it appears their history has been purposefully compartmentalized. Why would this occur? That is the question we will look to answer today. We will also examine the King and Queen’s Seat in Rocks State Park, Maryland – a location that played a significant role to the Susquehannock (which I visited recently).
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howdy y'all Welcome back Thank you for
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being here First and foremost I wanted
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to say thank you so much for helping my
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channel to reach 130,000 subscribers
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2025 has been a difficult year so far to
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say the least But luckily we have
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endless oldworld research to keep our
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minds firing on all cylinders One of the
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most fascinating and at times
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questionable narratives in our
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historical timeline would have to be
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that of the Susu Hanok indigenous people
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For centuries the Susu Hanok reigned
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over much of what is today New York
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Maryland Pennsylvania and even
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Washington DC And yet by the early 20th
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century this distinguished group of
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indigenous people was declared extinct
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by the government of Pennsylvania Indeed
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it was on Pennian soil in which the last
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congregation of Susu Hanok had organized
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and this occurred in my hometown of
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Lancaster However to fully understand
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the magnitude of the Susuhan people I'd
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like to first paint a vivid picture of
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their culture society and the
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architecture that was attributed to them
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According to the currently accepted
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narrative the Susuanok began their
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history with the onset of the little ice
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age around the year 1450 This forced the
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Susuanok further south They traveled
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along the massive river on which they
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had constructed their settlements now
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aptly known as the Susuana River Here is
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where we start to realize the sheer
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magnitude of what we are discussing The
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Susuana River is one of the oldest
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existing rivers in the entire world and
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possibly the oldest in America being
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formed roughly 330 million years ago For
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example the Susuana is far older than
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the mountain ridges through which it
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runs And from roughly 252 million years
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ago through 66 million years ago the
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Susuana River was unimaginably wide
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covering most of the flat tidelands of
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eastern North America So to say there's
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some history hidden here is an
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understatement And whether you agree
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with the current narrative or not you
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have to admit there must be some
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significance to what might possibly be
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the oldest and at one time the widest
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river in America
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Now back to the history of the Susuanak
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When they began to travel south around
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the year 1450 they left from roughly an
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area known then as Tyogga Point Meaning
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this location was said to be at that
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time one of their largest original
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settlements And remarkably Tyogga Point
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has since been renamed and is now known
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as Athens Coincidence or oldw world
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symbolism
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to illustrate the extent and advancement
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of their kingdom the Suscuhan were said
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to have constructed a massive earthwork
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and palisated fortification in Lancaster
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County along the Suscuana River by the
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year 1500 By 1600 this site was said to
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have been overcrowded and the Suscuan
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then extended what was their capital
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city to reach the Washington burrow of
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Pennsylvania The name Washington becomes
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important elsewhere in this narrative As
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we are told
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by605 the Suscuhan had also extended
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their interconnected settlements to
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reach the Ptoac River Valley in what is
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today Virginia Maryland and nearby to
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the United States capital Washington DC
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Now what's important here is that we're
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told the Susuanok built fairly intricate
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earthworks and then built palisades or
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wooden walls on top to protect their
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fortification If you know anything about
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the earliest star forts that were
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founded in America this is exactly what
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they looked like Earthworks with wooden
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palisades on top It truly wasn't until
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the establishment of vast trade routes
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in America that we begin to see the more
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Europeanlooking star forts being founded
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here What ties this further to the
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Susuano is their first encounter with a
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European settler was said to have
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occurred in the
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year608 with an interaction with
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infamous explorer John Smith who had
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made his way into the Chesapeake Bay
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Again if you are unfamiliar the
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Chesapeake Bay is one of the most
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gorgeous and mysterious bodies of water
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in the world From its earliest recorded
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history it was said to have been in the
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control of the Susuana as the Chesapeake
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Bay is the end of the
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444 mile long Susuana River The entire
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length of the river was written by John
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Smith to be controlled solely by the
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Susuhan with massive earthwork palisated
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fortifications dotted along the length
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of the river Smith also wrote that the
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Susuanok were remarkably pale with dark
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hair and light colored eyes and they
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stood a full head taller than their
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European counterparts estimated to be 6
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and 1/2 to 7 ft tall And this was not
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just one of the Susu Hano that were this
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tall but a group of 60 of them were said
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to have welcomed Smith upon his arrival
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to the Chesapeake Bay Again the Susu
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Hanoch even in this current narrative
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sound much different than any other
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indigenous American group we have
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researched before What makes this
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interaction with John Smith even more
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notable is that Smith also wrote that
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the Suscuhan were in possession of
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advanced weaponry made of brass
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including what appeared to be cannons
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which he could only assume were French
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in origin However it's interesting we
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don't have any described interaction
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between the French and the Susu Hanoch
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before this time which you'd think the
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French would have wrote about given the
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Susu Hanok's rather unique history and
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appearance The narrative continues by
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telling us that the Susu Hanok ruled
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over nearly all fur trade in the region
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trading with the English the Dutch and
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the Swedish and obtaining musketss When
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the Suscuhan marched through Lape
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territory on a trade excursion and were
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challenged in the mid 1630s the Suscuhan
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were said to have won a decisive battle
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leading to years of the Lape being
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subjects to and paying tribute to the
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Susuan With the founding of the province
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of Maryland in 1634 Britain essentially
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declared war on the Susuan further
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heightened by the province and Britain
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aligning with the Piscatoaway tribe
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another whom had been forced to pay
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tribute to the Suscuhan for many years
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With their British trade routes broken
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the Susuhan turned to New Sweden And
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would you believe it an earthwork a
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palisadated star fort was created in New
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Sweden named Fort
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Christianana While looking exactly like
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the described Susu Hanok forts and while
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being built to facilitate fur trade with
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the Susu Hanok and while we're told the
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Susu Hano were skilled architects
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employed by colonists to establish new
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settlements nowhere in the current
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narrative does it say that the star fort
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fort Christianana was built by the
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Susuana It just makes you think
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Furthermore given the significance of
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the Susuana River to all of American
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history a theory arose in the early 17th
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century which still persists to this day
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A theory that the Susu Hanoch are
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descendants of the mound builders If
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you're unfamiliar prior to the
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previously mentioned Little Ice Age a
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widespread group of related indigenous
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people established massive earthworks
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earth effiges settlements and cities
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across the Midwestern United States
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between roughly the years 500 AD to,400
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AD And yet for as long as these groups
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reigned supreme in America they
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disappeared seemingly without a trace
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before the arrival of European settlers
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Many question this history and the
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established timeline for the mound
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builders and some have theorized the
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earthworks of America are far older than
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what is currently accepted with some
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claiming them to be anti-dolivian
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Still others claim that the old world
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was not so long ago and that residue of
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the mound builders maybe even the people
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themselves still existed when the first
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Europeans stepped foot onto this
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landscape One thing we do know is that
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often these mounds signified locations
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that had been established along ancient
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routes And in many instances these
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earthwork settlements were then
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transformed into some of the first forts
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and European towns in America For
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example Pittsburgh was the site of
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numerous mound builder effiges and then
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became one of the most important store
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forts in pre-revolutionary America
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before then becoming one of the largest
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cities in the country during the
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industrial age Not only did these
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earthworks play a significant role to
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shaping America but these epic pieces of
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shaped land and architecture also
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greatly resembled the palisated
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settlements of the
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Suscuana Given that fact and the odd yet
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almost never discussed fact that many of
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the mound builders burial mounds found
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across the country contain skeletons
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that stood well over 7 ft tall and tying
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that to the descriptions of the Susuan
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of a similar build And given these
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remains in the burial mounds have often
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been described as having light colored
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eyes and hair and seeing how many other
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indigenous groups appeared to venerate
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the Susuan we can only begin to imagine
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the implications it would have if the
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Susu Hanok truly did descend from the
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mounduilders Which leads to 1643
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This is when the British Jesuit order
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formed a massive mission to try to
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convert the Susuano and if not then to
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try to conquer them As you can imagine
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this did not go as planned The governor
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of Maryland went as far as to hiring
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militias but it was to no avail The Susu
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Hanoch were said to have won nearly
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every battle that they took part in
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capturing multiple British cannons and
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burning through numerous British
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settlements The Suscuhan continued these
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raids well into the year
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1652 when the Mohawk were then armed by
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the British and sent to destroy the
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Suscuhan Again this aggression was
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easily repelled but the Susuhan then
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chose to sign the Articles of Peace and
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Friendship to reestablish trade with the
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British and to facilitate further
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accommodations for the Susuan It is
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around this time that the Susu Hanok
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began to be involved in the construction
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of early settlements in Maryland for the
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colonists again showing their affinity
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for architecture By the year 1660 the
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Susu Hanok are described as quote the
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security of the northern part of the
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province end quote And that comes from
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official Maryland documents Those
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Jesuits however really seemed interested
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in the Suscoan And with good reason In
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1671 the Jesuit report lists a raid of
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800 Senica warriors on what they
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believed to be an unoccupied major Susu
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Hanok settlement on the Chesapeake Bay
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When the Senica arrived to the Susuhan
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settlement they were correct as nearly
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no adult male men remained in the
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village And yet the Senica were met by a
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conglomerate of 300 Susuanok mostly
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adolescent boys no older than the age of
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14 In the ensuing battle it is written
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that the 300 Susquan boys not only
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routed the 800 Senica warriors but the
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300 Suscuhan boys were also said to have
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been the same size if not taller than
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the adult Senica men Just a little more
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food for thought in this narrative As
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for roughly 200 years of European
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history in America the Susu Hanoch
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appeared to be unconquerable That is
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until the trickery and rewriting of the
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narrative
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History tells us that this group the
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Suscuana that was undefeated in major
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battles until roughly 1671 who ruled
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over the majority of what became three
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different states The narrative tells us
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that by
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1675 the Susay Hanoch were easily
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defeated by the Irakcoy and forced to
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leave their capital in Pennsylvania to
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move towards Washington DC Luckily even
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in the current narrative we have modern
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scholars that are calling malarkey on
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that one More likely it's argued that
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Charles Calv the governor of the
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Maryland province promised certain trade
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amenities and gifts to the Susu Hanok as
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well as arms and protection if they
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moved into his province and built a new
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colony We could even take this a step
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further and see how Washington DC and
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the surrounding area was largely
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unoccupied and undeveloped at this time
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It was still an unknown That is until
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the Susu Hanok moved into the area in
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1675 establishing the first trade routes
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earthworks and palisated forts on the
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same location that would become the
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United States capital over 100 years
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later Then we have a very strange event
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It is largely believed that colonists
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either orchestrated raids themselves or
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hired other indigenous groups to conduct
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raids on newly founded European
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settlements nearby the new Susu Hanok
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capital in Maryland The Susu Hanok were
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then quickly blamed for these raids and
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a 1,000man militia was organized to
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eliminate the Susu Hano from the area
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It's almost as if the colonists hired
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the Susu Hanok to clear out Washington
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DC and the surrounding area to establish
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trade routes and settlements to help
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construct roads and structures and then
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to kick them out of the region before
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taking it over But I digress The siege
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of the Susu Hanok fort was said to have
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lasted for over 6 weeks Does it really
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make sense that a simple earthwork and
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wood palisadated fort would take six
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weeks to penetrate or could it be that
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the Susu Hanok had constructed far more
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advanced structures than they are given
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credit for in the current narrative and
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these feats of indigenous engineering
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were deemed to be quite difficult for
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the Europeans to conquer We're told the
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Susu Hanok escaped in the middle of the
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night in early winter with a large
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portion of their people giving up their
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identities and assimilating with the
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nearby Lape An estimated 60 to 90% of
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the Susuan assimilated with other
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indigenous people during this time as
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the governments of both Virginia and
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Maryland had declared war on them
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However the remaining 10 to 40% of the
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Susuana people returned to the Suscuana
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River to their original homeland in
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Lancaster where the Pennsylvania
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government was willing to give them a
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sanctuary a safe home to protect the
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last of their people Or so they thought
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By
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1681 the Susu Hano had established
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Konesoga town in Lancaster Pennsylvania
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along the Knesogga River a major
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tributary of the Susuana which cuts
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through the land to create the
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boundaries for the county of Lancaster
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The history of Knesogga town is pretty
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remarkable First Kanes Stoogga is the
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British word for Susuana And from that
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name Knesogga derives the term Stogi
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being the colloquial term for the cigar
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a creation that was first introduced to
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European settlers by the
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Susuana In the Knesogga town we also
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have the inventing or founding of the
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Knosogga wagon the wagon that was said
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to have conquered the West We also have
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the invention of the first repeating
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rifle occurring in the Knesogga town
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Formerly known as a Knosoga or Lancaster
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but now known as a Kentucky rifle
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Knesogga Town became the trade hub of
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all of Pennsylvania outside of
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Philadelphia And Lancaster grew to one
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of the largest cities in all of America
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However as many groups began to
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assimilate in the Knesogga town the
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ancient customs became lost Only a few
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pureblooded Susuanok remained and among
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them only a few elders could speak the
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Susuanok language which was known to
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them as the ancient tongue By
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1763 we're told everyone but the ancient
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Susu Hanok speakers had left the
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Konosoga town And these few remaining
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individuals numbering around 20 or less
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were the last to keep the ancient
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customs alive Again take this all with a
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grain of salt but we're told a radical
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group known as the Paxton Boys formed in
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Pennsylvania looking to erase indigenous
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history and to claim indigenous lands
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This group marched to the Knesogga town
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in the middle of the night and the
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ensuing decimation saw every last
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Susuanok lose their lives From this
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point forward the Suscuhan were
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considered all but extinct and this was
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actually made law in
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1941 A bill was proposed to protect
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descendants of Susuanok people and
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provide them with protected land in
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Dolphin County Pennsylvania However even
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though the bill was passed it was
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immediately vetoed by the governor of
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Pennsylvania Arthur James who used court
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documents to claim that the last of the
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Susu Hanoch had died due to the Paxton
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boys attack in 1763
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The Saskuahua Hanoch have never been
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brought up again in a governmental
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capacity since that time period And
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their purposeful erasing from our
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history is what I feel could be one of
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the biggest tragedies to have ever
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occurred on American soil especially
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when we consider the possibility that
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the Susu Hanok were involved in
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constructing some of our largest cities
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including the American capital I want to
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end this video by showing you my visit
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to the king and queen seat in Maryland I
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was out exploring looking for the second
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largest waterfall in Maryland Kilgore
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Falls And while in the forest on these
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trails I found markers for a location
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that was called the King and Queen Sea
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So of course I had to visit This site
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was actually said to have been where the
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Susu Hanok would meet and hold
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ceremonies and the king would climb to
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the top of this stone throne and he
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would make his speeches So I climbed to
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the top of this 200 ft tall outcropping
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This is also said to be the location
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where in the
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mid600s the Irakcoy after many years of
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losing battles and paying tribute became
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equals to the Susu Hanok when the
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Irakcoy princess was married to the Susu
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Hanok prince Hence the name of this site
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the king and queen sea thus uniting the
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tribes after centuries of waring