Atrakwaye

Atrakwaye lay on the upper Susquehanna, where the river gathers its western and northern branches in a broad valley of wooded hills, in the northeastern part of Pennsylvania. Jesuit missionaries of the 1650s recorded the Akhrakouaeronon as a people of this river, possibly closely tied to the Susquehannock. Their main town sat on the flats beside the river, with maize fields spread across the bottomland and fish weirs in the shallows. The Akhrakouaeronon were scattered by the Iroquois in the 1650s and 1660s, and the valley's wide flats passed into the hands of other peoples and later into those of colonial settlers.