Hi Tom.  I shared this with my fiancé` who is the Miquon and he said that
what you came up with seems to support what he had heard as a child growing
up.  He said that the name Susquehanna was given to them by the British.
His family are a very 'stealthy bunch... men and women alike.  They run on
average of 6'5" to 7'0".  And he is only 6'7" probably due to the shorter
Polish and Shawnee grandparents and a very short Cherokee great-grandmother
on the Shawnee side.  Ray said that the Miquons were known to sneak into a
village and start killing from within before anyone was aware that anything
was happening.  So, it is not a wonder why they were given the smallpox
laden blankets which almost wiped their entire population out.  Some did in
fact survive... they blended into the Lenapes, Haudenosaunees, and other
local tribes.  And, because of their light colored skin they were also able
to blend in with the whites as well.  The Hurons came out of the early
Miquons... so this makes sense about the them having similar language.

Thanks for the help.
Dolores


----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Apple" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 3:56 PM
Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] Recovering Virginia Algonquian / Susquehanna dialect

On Tue, 7 Mar 2006 15:21:39 -0500, doloresc.phifer wrote
> Hi Tom.  Thanks for the added info.  Miquons have been lumped under
> the Susquehannas/Susquehannocks, but they feel that they are more
> closely aligned with the Haudenosaunees.  They did however picked up
> some of the Algonquian dialect when they lived down among the
> Powhatans, Lenapes, and other tribes they met in their travels.

Doing a little checking online, some sources suggest that "Susquehannock"
was
an Algonquin name for that Iroquoian people meaning people of the muddy
river
and the name "Minqua" was given to them by the Lenape meaning "stealthy". It
is believed that the Minqua/Minquons spoke an Iroquois dialect similar to
Huron. So perhaps some language resources for the Huron would be insightful
to
the dialect spoken by the Minquons.
Source:  http://www.dickshovel.com/susque.html
Regards,
Tom

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