Carentouan

The Carentouan take their name from the palisaded town of Carantouan on the upper Susquehanna, near the New York border. In 1615 Champlain sent the interpreter Étienne Brûlé to win them as allies against the Haudenosaunee; Brûlé found a fortified town of about four thousand people and roughly eight hundred warriors, its houses and palisades resembling the Wendat's, and Champlain mapped it in 1632. Its name was later glossed as Big Tree.

Most historians identify them with the Susquehannock, called Andaste by the Wendat, who had earlier lived in scattered riverside hamlets before drifting south to Chesapeake Bay. A ruined earthwork at Spanish Hill, South Waverly, is the best-known candidate for the town's site.

They shared the Susquehannock collapse. Overwhelmed by the Haudenosaunee in the mid-1670s and besieged on Piscataway Creek in 1675, they were absorbed into the Haudenosaunee nations from 1677.