Exploring the Mystery of the Monogahela Indians

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Many years ago, in the area we now call Pennsylvania, lived a Native
American group Known as the Monongahela (Muh-NON-guh-hay-la).
They inhabited southwestern Pennsylvania and nearby areas between 400 and 1.000
years ago.
Because there are no Monongahela alive today to tell us what they called themselves, archaeologists gave them their name after the Monongahela River in Pennsylvania.
The Monongahela you'll learn about here lived in the Somerset
County, Pennsylvania area from about
A.D. 900 to A.D. 1400.
Native Americans lived in the Somerset County area for at least 12,000 years. For much of this time they
were nomadic gatherer-hunters* living in temporary or semi-permanent camps. Approximately 2,000 years ago some Native American groups began to domesticate plants, and eventually settle more permanently.
However, no permanent villages existed in Somerset County until the Monongahela settled in the area about 1,000 years ago. Since historic documents do not tell us about the Monongahela, archaeology is the only way we can learn about them.

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@richrodriguez9170 6 ай бұрын

You got it backwards. The Monongahela river flows north, so it runs from West Virginia to Pittsburgh, not the other way as you stated.

@89bmw325ix Жыл бұрын

I love it! Growing up in SW PA in Greensboro along the Mon river I always knew this area was loaded with native American history. I spent many days on what we called Indian rock but is known as Sugar Grove petroglyphs. There was a Monongahela village that a professor from WVU and a local guy excavated in the 70s or 80s. I was told that one of the burial hole contained a woman positioned in an upright fetal position and when they examined her skull the jawbone had small pits in the bone leading them to believe some type of disease that led to the tribe disappearing. You are still able to find pieces of pottery and clam shell all over the ground if you look hard enough you might find still and an arrowhead. Thanks for taking an interest in the Monongahela tribe and making this video.

@camping9564 6 ай бұрын

Have you been there in a while? It’s on private property I was wondering if they allowed you to go back there now.

@sadie27 Жыл бұрын

I actually live in Meyersdale, all my life, they say that they remember when the bypass was being put in and everything had to stop because of what they found. Now we are taught about the mysterious people who once walked the places we do.

@lindagreene1815 3 ай бұрын

The Mon River flows North and meets the Allegheny River then turns into the Ohio River.

@Leatherwoodoutdoors2 2 жыл бұрын

Cool vids. I like the vids from kittaning and Samuel brady. I'm from western pa, border of clarion and armstrong. Would like to see more vids about this area. Gets lost in the more popular places like Pittsburgh or cornplanters region in the north. Also, have you ever thought about doing a video on extinct wildlife from the area. In pa we used to have the eastern mountain lion, bison, elk and more along with the plentiful chestnut trees that used to be common all throughout pa and the northeast. Helps put in context what the frontier was truly like. Just a thought about possible future vids. Keep up the good work.

@ExploringTheAmericanFrontier 2 жыл бұрын

Hi thanks for the compliment and checking out the videos. I’m glad you like those. I have been getting a lot of request from that area honestly I might start to look into some more things up that way to cover. The extinct of pa wildlife is a good idea I’ll have to read up on that and see what that’s like. Very interesting. Thanks for reaching out always appreciate the help and ideas from you guys! Really helps me pick topics when I know what people like to see as well. Stop back soon! Cheers!

@notthedea4773 Жыл бұрын

You should make another video about the petroglyphs right outside of midland pa in smithsferry, they are believed to have been made between 1200-1750AD by the Monongahela People! Pretty sure they also had a big camp down there 2! You can find more about it online! There’s another area in between industry pa and beaver-vanport, that I believe was a huge Indian encampment, it has one of them blue metal historical signs there telling you about it! And it’s all on the Ohio river!

@ExploringTheAmericanFrontier Жыл бұрын

Hey thanks, Great idea ! I will look into this. Thanks for stopping by and checking out the channel. Cheers!

@MrChristianDT Жыл бұрын

I've been of the mind that the Monongahela Culture were a Siouan speaking people for a while, just ones with a unique culture. Their dwellings look like those made by the Saponi of Virginia, who say their ancestors came from Ohio a few hundred years earlier, but whose language is completely different from that of the Mosopelea, the only known Fort Ancient group we have in the historical record. Their villages were arranged in a circular pattern & they buried their dead beneath their villages. Plus, the Jean Baptiste Franquelin map that shows the Mosopelea as having once lived in southeast Ohio has a mark "Casa," just north of them & seemingly still in eastern Ohio. This could corespond with a tiny area the Monongahela controlled in eastern Ohio. Casa most likely comes from the Illinois word Kansa, which refers to some groups of Siouan speaking peoples (I doubt they, specifically, have anything to do with the Monongahela Culture. My point is, I think he figured out they were Siouan, he just never managed to formally identify them.)

@MrChristianDT Жыл бұрын

EDIT: Chenopodium is goosefoot. Also, I doubt their clothes were exclusively animal skin. I don't live too far northwest of their territory & know full well they had access o both dogbane & Mulberry. There is documentation of different native groups in the Eastern Woodland having made Hemp cloth from both of those plants.

@ExploringTheAmericanFrontier Жыл бұрын

Very informative and intriguing information Chris! Great work adding this to the discussion! Stop back anytime! Very informative! Cheers!

@hickerbilly345 8 ай бұрын

Burying their dead right under them probably in shallow graves could have been a factor to the disappearance

@FAITHFUL-SERVANT-OF-GOD Ай бұрын

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@launiesoult3248 10 ай бұрын

Be your presentation you are you talk about the net the long heeler is if they were living in the berry berry for a past but they have a I'll history too and I hate that word prehistory how much is that mean before Columbus Well people the people of the norgale had a nongaylaMonaghan hellaThere we go thank you