Editing Danville, Pennsylvania (section)

===The Beaver Wars===
About the time [[New Sweden]] (1638) was founded, the [[Iroquois Confederacy]] began a series of escalating wars setting Indian versus Indian called the [[Beaver Wars]]&mdash;that ultimately would open up the frontier to white settlers&mdash;deadly long running territorial wars between Amerindian peoples for ''fur hunting and trapping territories''. Forearmed by their traders knowledge, the Swedes settled both sides of the Delaware, and almost immediately became allies with the Susquehannock, who already well armed, would soon after have a confederacy well armed enough to win a war declared by the colonial [[Province of Maryland]], subjugate several Delaware tribes and would inflict several stinging defeats on Iroquois forces.

By the mid-1650s [[New Netherlands]] absorbed [[New Sweden]], and in 1666-67, the English took over New Netherlands, but most of the colonial populations in both cases, including traders, merely switched governors and went on with business as usual, where the most lucrative business was for [[fur]]s.

What little is known of the Susquehannock tribe comes mostly from a few traders and the work of a single Dutch missionary who lived with them for a time about 1640.<ref name=Susquehannock/> They were a fierce and powerful people holding off territorial infringements from the tribes on all sides of their range from the Potomac to the Mohawk valley, and the Poconos to the Alleghenies.<ref name=Susquehannock/> Danville, located in the southern center of the valley would have been at least a summer hunting camp for these people, who were to become horribly affected by epidemic plagues of disease over multiple years circa 1668-72.<ref name=Susquehannock/>   This sudden weakness in population ironically occurred shortly after the Susquehannocks gave a serious drubbing about 1665-66 over 2-3 years<ref name=Susquehannock/>  to two of the [[Five Nations of the Iroquois]] in the local [[Beaver Wars]]. After the drastic weakening, they were attacked on all sides by subjected tribes, colonists, and the Iroquois, suffering further large losses.<ref name=Susquehannock/>

By 1678, the Iroquois would agree in a treaty to absorb most of the remaining Iroquoian Susquehannocks whose civilization had collapsed,<ref name=Susquehannock/> though several hundred remnants migrated to live south and west of the Wyoming Valley, and would be called the Conestoga by the new [[Kingdom of England|English settlers]] in the [[province of Pennsylvania|colony of Pennsylvania]],<ref name=Susquehannock/> whilst the Susquehannock confederation would go extinct as an [[:category:Iroquoian peoples|Iroquoian people]] and its surviving people would be absorbed into other tribes.<ref 
 name=Susquehannock/> Hence, Danville was [[Iroquois]] land until a 1768 treaty{{Citation needed|reason=This is possibly 1678, since the British took control in 1667, about the time the Susquehannock declined 90% in population. By treaty with the British colonies of New York and Pennsylvania, the Iroquois adopted most of the remaining Susquehannock in the Wyoming Valley.
|date=June 2016}} after the [[French and Indian War]].