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A map at the Penn Museum in Philadelphia shows the forced migration of members of the Lenape Nation. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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More than 1,000 miles from his ancestral homeland, Curtis Zunigha’s gravelly voice managed to drown out the incessant static of a phone line.
All the way from Bartlesville, Oklahoma, you could hear Zunigha’s passion for the countless stories he carries with him of his people, the Lenape.
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The Susquehanna River flows from Lake Otsego, New York, to the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland. Near Sunbury, it is joined by the west branch; near Pittston, it is joined by the Lackawanna; north, it forms a triangle at Tioga and is joined by the Chemung. The earliest settlers in the region, known as Wyomink, had been living here for thousands of years, as evidenced by artifacts on display at the Luzerne County Historical Society. For unknown reasons, by 1575, this people disappeared from the area. It is unclear how or why. It wasnât until about the 1650s that the area was populated again. A band of Native Americans from the northeast claimed sovereignty over the area. They were the Iroquois Confederacy, the name given to the confederation or league of five nations: Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayga and Seneca. When English settlers began arriving around the 1660s, they decided they wanted this land.
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WAYNE & PIKE - Charles A. Lindbergh, the famed aviator who was first to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1927, was descended from one of Wayne County, Pa. s early non-native settlers, and visited here at least once to look up his roots, in later years.
Lindbergh also made headlines here a year after his solo transatlantic flight, when one of his planes crashed in the woods of Pike County, killing two aviators (Lindbergh was not aboard).
A sketch of Lindbergh
First, here is a brief account of Charles Augustus Lindbergh. He was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1902.
Following his passion, he learned to fly in 1922 and was soon barnstorming in the Mid-West as a wing walker and parachutist. In 1924 he entered the United States Army Air Service and was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the Air Service Reserve Corps.