The Minqua Unami Okehocking & The Down River Nations is historical in that those who here when Europeans arrived are centered. Ms. Wills documented her family history which spans thousands of years in America back to Spain in Europe Mali in Africa Canada and Columbia South America. In the pages of Minqua Unami Okehocking is a continuation of the history and historical figures entangled in her lines. Minqua Unami Ockehocking & The Down River Nations tells of the Indigenous People who occupied the North and Southeastern regions of what is now America. Ms. Wills Ancestors were the indigenous occupants of the region for at least 10,000 years before Colonization.

In 1692 several members of the Manokin Tribe lived in what is now Somerset County Maryland. In Pennsylvania the Susquehanna were labeled Minqua by European Settlers. In Virginia the Natives were under siege as were the Susquehanna and Iroquois in the North. They lived near rivers and waterways and were the Upriver and Down River Nations whose waterways were Superhighways. In what is now North Carolina Jane (the Elder) Gipson an Indian woman (b. 1640-1722) saw her dark-skinned children enslaved by Gordon Lightfoot. The Nanzattico were sent as slaves to Antiqua in 1704. The Minqua Unami and Okehocking were written about by Europeans who had first contact with them. In Pennsylvania they were Tributary to the Iroquois under Queen Aliquippa who was on a first name Basis with George Washington and William Penn. It was she who negotiated with William Penn for the return of the Okehocking Lands in Pennsylvania.

When European settlers entered the colony there were no States or Union only Native Villages and land which existed for for thousands of years. This book encompasses the Indigenous People of Eastern Woodlands who were pushed off their lands. It was the Iroquoian Queen Aliquippa who negotiated with William Penn for 500 acres of that Land in what is now Chester and Delaware County. She negotiated with Penn for 10000 acres in Conestoga Manor. In the meantime Ships arriving from Europe were landing and those leaving the ships held pieces of paper that gave them rights to stolen land. The Land Queen Aliquippa negotiated with William Penn now sits in Delaware Chester and Lancaster County and is the Okehocking Tract and Conestoga Manor Tracts. Although Pennsylvania does not have Reservations the natives continued to live on or around their land. Some became Christians and intermixed in the Free Black and/or white Community. They were designated as white Colored Negro and then Black by white census takers. There was a massacre of the Conestoga in 1765 and no one was ever charged or held accountable.

In what the Author refers to “Silence of the Lambs” In 1765 Conestoga Indians including women and children were massacred in the Lancaster County Jail. This is their story which has been hidden in an attempt to justify the taking of their history land and lives. Many of the descendants of the Native continue to live in and around the region and are renters or holding mortgages on the land of their ancestors. Paper Genocide was committed when Natives racial identification was changed to Mulatto Colored Negro and/or White. This was the category that many of the Eastern Woodlands fell under including the Author’s family. The Nanzattico (Nantaughtacund) were the oldest tribe in Virginia and in 1704 the entire adult population was sent as slaves to Antiqua. At the same time the children under 12 were sentenced to serve Indentures for 25 years. This is the story of Natives who were relegated to slave status removal faced forced assimilation and murdered for land and Mineral Rights. This is similar to the Critical Race Theory (CRT) that has been hidden and is now coming to light.