Table of Contents

Contents

Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
David J. Minderhout
One: Native American Prehistory in the Susquehanna River Valley
David J. Minderhout
Two: History Timeline
David J. Minderhout
Three: A Story in Stone: The Susquehanna's Rock Art Legacy
Paul A. Nevin
Four: Native Americans in the Susquehanna River Region: 1550 to Today
David J. Minderhout
Five: "Blood Quantum" and Lenape Tradition
Donald R. Repsher
Six: Our Stories, Ourselves: Oral Histories of Contemporary Native Americans .
David J. Minderhout, Andrea T. Frantz and Jessica D. Dowsett
Seven: Oral Tradition of One Family of Pennsylvania Seneca Descendants
Gerald E. Dietz
Eight: Kiiloona Ktaaptoonehna: Munsee Language Revitalization on the Susquehanna's
North Branch
Susan M. Taffe Reed
Nine: Lenapeyok neki: Those Are Lenapes
Kenneth R. Hayden
Ten: Native Lands County Park
David J. Minderhout
Afterword
Ann N. Dapice
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

David J. Minderhout is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Bloomsburg University, Pennsylvania. In addition to his work with Native Americans in Pennsylvania, he has conducted research on creole languages in the southern Caribbean, African American English in the Washington, D.C., public schools, and Pennsylvania German traditional medicine. He is the coauthor of Invisible Indians: Native Americans in Pennsylvania and numerous scholarly articles.

Reviews

Native Americans in the Susquehanna River Valley, Past and Present differs from earlier published works about the Native Americans of Pennsylvania.

It is about projectile points and petroglyphs, but it is also about family histories, the ongoing efforts to reintroduce native languages into Pennsylvania and the spiritual values many contemporary Native Americans embrace. Its authors thus appropriately come from diverse disciplines and backgrounds, including anthropologists, historians, psychologists, enthomusicologists, and community leaders, many of whom have native heritage with roots in the Susquehanna country.
*Sir Read Alot Book Review*