The Scahentoarrhonon or Scahentowanenrhonon were a little-known

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originally from the

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, which they called Scahentowanen ('It is a very great plain').

History

Little is known of the Scahentoarrhonon. They were recorded in the Jesuit ''Relation'' for 1635. They appear to have been destroyed as a tribe by the

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in 1652 during the

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. Survivors may have been assimilated by one or more of the Five Nations.

References

External links

The Massawomeck: Raiders and Traders into the Chesapeake Bay in the Seventeenth Century
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