Near present-day Titusville, Pennsylvania, which Native American people collected crude oil flowing along the Oil Creek and used it for medicine and trade, a practice that was adopted by the white settlers in the region?

As white settlers moved into the Oil Creek region after the American Revolution, they were met with the Seneca Native American tribe. The Seneca Native Americans used petroleum as healing salve, mosquito repellent, purge, and many other things. As they began to settle around the Creek, they began to skim petroleum from the little springs either in the bank or in the actual bed of the stream. The European explorers and settlers in Western Pennsylvania were quick to adopt "Seneca Oil" as a cure-all. In the beginning and throughout the Creek's prime, petroleum was valued for medicines, lubricant, mineral oil, petroleum jelly, petroleum and many other remedies, which were presented and taught to them by the Native Americans around the area.