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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 897 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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CONESTOGA (said to mean " people of the immersed or forked poles ")

CONESTOGA (said to mean "
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people of the immersed or forked poles ") , a tribe of

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AMERICAN

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INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN

Indians of Iroquoian stock . Their

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COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

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Pennsylvania and

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MARYLAND

Maryland on the

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LOWER

lower Susquehanna

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RIVER

river and at the

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head of Chesapeake

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BAY

bay . They were sometimes known as Susquehannas . They were formerly a powerful

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PEOPLE

people, able to resist the attacks of the

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IROQUOIS

Iroquois . In 1675, however, the latter overwhelmed and scattered them . After nearly a

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CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century of wandering, the tribe suffered final extinction in the

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INDIAN

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WARS

wars of 1763 .

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