Shamokin

Shamokin may refer to the following in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania:

Shamokin!!!

Shamokin!!! is the first real album put out by Mostly Other People Do the Killing. The quartet is led by bassist Moppa Elliot who put out a record entitled Mostly Other People Do the Killing in 2005, which joined all the personnel that went on to form the band. The album is mostly original songs with Lover and A Night in Tunisia the only covers.

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Shamokin (village)

Shamokin (/ʃəˈmoʊkᵻn/; Saponi Algonquian “Schahamokink” "place of eels") (Lenape: Shahëmokink ) was a multi-ethnic Native American trading village on the Susquehanna River, located partially within the limits of the modern cities of Sunbury and Shamokin Dam, Pennsylvania. It should not be confused with present-day Shamokin, Pennsylvania, located to the east. Early in the eighteenth century, the village consisted of Iroquois migrants from the north, as well as Shawnee and Lenape settlers moving away from the expanding white settlement of Pennsylvania and Saponi and Tutelo from Virginia.

The date of first human settlement of is not known. However, historian C. A. Weslager indicates that it was probably Shawnee migrants who first settled there. A large population of Delaware Indians was also forcibly resettled there in the early 18th century after they lost rights to their land in the Walking Purchase. Canasatego of the Six Nations, enforcing the Walking Purchase of behalf of George Thomas, Deputy Governor of Pennsylvania, ordered the Delaware Indians to go to two places on the Susquehanna River, one of which was Shamokin.