Well, New Sweden on the Delaware lasted from 1638 to 1655, when the Dutch took it over. Quite a few Finns among the population.
colorado clyde said:Some things bother me about that picture....Besides being painted by someone who never even came to America, the square windows in two of the "wikiups" (if that's what you're calling them) seem oddly out of place.
Windows mean glass and glass had to be imported.
Early Swedish settlers in the Delaware Valley made windows out of the transparent mineral mica
The quote...colorado clyde said:Great!...Now the question at hand is, are the structures with windows depicting wikiups or clapboard houses?
I thought the Swedish settlers built clapboard houses... :hmm:
By the time there was photography, I assume many things had changed for the native people? Metal tools, cloth, firearms, "dwellings", etc.?colorado clyde said:Or maybe not......................
SAUK AND FOX HABITATION COVERED WITH ELM BARK
DESCRIPTION: Inset, The Indian Fort Susquehanok
DATE CREATED/PUBLISHED: Published as inset in Herman Moll's A new map of the north parts of America claimed by France, 1720
NOTES: Fort Susquehannock was located south from the Great Lake region. There was one known fort of the Susquehannock located on the Western Shore of Maryland, however it is not certain that it is the one on the picture presented. The Susquehannock tribe was Iroquoian-speaking but did not belong to the Iroquois Confederacy. The tribe resided in Pennsylvania and northern Maryland.
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