Editing Danville, Pennsylvania (section)

===Native American history===
As Europeans explored the coastal regions reachable from ships at the dawn of the 17th Century, the whole valley of the [[Susquehanna River|Susquehanna]] from South-central [[New York (state)|New York]] state to the upper [[Chesapeake Bay]] was owned by the fierce [[Iroquois]]-like [[Susquehannock people]], like the [[Erie people]], an [[Iroquoian]] speaking tribe with a similar related culture.<ref 
 name=Susquehannock>see [[Susquehannock#History]] main article coverage and citations.</ref>  As the [[European wars of religion]] lulled before the cataclysm of the [[Thirty Years' War]], ca. 1600 AD the [[protestant]] [[Dutch Republic|Dutch]] traders first entered the [[Delaware River|Delaware Valley]] and began regularly [[fur trade|trading]] [[firearms]] for furs, especially highly valued beaver pelts with the inland Susquehannock people in the vicinity of greater Philadelphia.
 
Although the Susquehannocks lived well inland their hunting range owned the rich [[Beaver]] territory of the entire [[Susquehanna River]] [[drainage basin]], since the Susquehannock's range also included hunting the [[Schuylkill River|Schuylkill]] and [[Lehigh River]]s and their tributaries (which they historically disputed by occasional mutual raiding with the [[Algonquian peoples|Algonquian]] [[Delaware people]] dwelling along the Atlantic coastal strip extending west from [[Delaware]] and southern [[New Jersey]] into the [[Pocono Mountains|Poconos]]), the Susquehanna had a wealth of coveted [[Beaver]] [[fur trade|pelts]], and so became formidably well armed.