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CHAPTER ONE

OUR STORY TO TELL

THE MINQUA AND SUSQUEHANNA

“Whole Indian Nations have melted away like snowballs in the sun before the white man’s advance. They leave scarcely a name of our people except those wrongly recorded by their destroyers.” Dragging Canoe 1776”

It’s time to tell our story in our own words, from our own mouths. We have heard the stories others tell about us, but they do not speak our truth. We owe it to our ancestors to talk of their lives, struggles, and triumphs. It is a tradition in African and Native American cultures to share their stories with each succeeding generation.

This is the basis of the Oral Tradition, which is, in itself, more intimate than the written word. It is a Native Tradition to remember seven generations past and prepare for the next seven generations to come. In most African and Native Cultures, the body is buried, not the spirit and soul.

The Revised Edition of Black Minqua The Life and Times of Henry Green contains 184 pages. A new Chapter, Along the Great Minqua Path has been added. Black Minqua was a name coined by Europeans on Contact with First with Natives in The Great Valley. The Natives traversed the Great Minqua Path from Philadelphia into the Interior of what is now Lancaster County. The book details the Green and Davis Lines who owned businesses and settled throughout what is now the Delaware Valley. The records on these lines goes back to the mid 1600’s and covers succeeding Generations. Henry Green is still the catalyst for the book, as the first to, Step Out into History during the Christiana Resistance. This is a must read for Historians and Students everywhere!