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Nanticoke
Total population
Approximately 1,200 in 1600
1,000 (1990)[1]
Regions with significant populations
United States (Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland, Oklahoma), Canada (Ontario)[1]
Languages
English, formerly Nanticoke language
Religion
Native American religion, Christianity
Related ethnic groups
Assateague, Choptank, Conoy, Patuxent, Piscataway, Pocomoke[1]
Nanticoke River
Delaware Indians

The Nanticoke people are a Native American Algonquian people, whose traditional homelands are in Chesapeake Bay and Delaware. Today they live in the Northeastern United States and Canada, especially Delaware; in Ontario; and in Oklahoma.[1]

The Nanticoke people consisted of several tribes: The Nanticoke proper (the subject of this article), the Choptank, the Assateague, the Piscataway, and the Doeg.

  1. ^ a b c d Pritzker 440

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Nanticoke people

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The Nanticoke people are a Native American Algonquian people, whose traditional homelands are in Chesapeake Bay and Delaware. Today they live in the Northeastern...

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Nanticoke

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Nanticoke may refer to: Nanticoke people in Delaware, United States Nanticoke Indian Association, a group of Delaware Nanticoke people Nanticoke language...

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Indigenous peoples of Maryland

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Nanticoke language

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Nanticoke is an Algonquian language formerly spoken in Delaware and Maryland, United States. The same language was spoken by several neighboring tribes...

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Lenape

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including the Nanticoke people who lived to their south and west in present western Delaware and eastern Maryland. Among many Algonquian peoples along the...

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Doeg people

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were a Native American people who lived in Virginia. They spoke an Algonquian language and may have been a branch of the Nanticoke tribe, historically based...

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James Young Deer

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World as of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, his ancestry is of the Nanticoke people of Delaware. He became an early film actor, director, writer, and producer...

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Delaware

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mixed ethnicity, the Moors, live in Cheswold. The descendants of the Nanticoke people live around Millsboro. There is also a small numbers of Asians in New...

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Tehoka Nanticoke

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Tehoka Nanticoke is a professional lacrosse player who plays for the Buffalo Bandits of the National Lacrosse League and the Haudenosaunee national team...

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Piscataway people

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are Native Americans. They spoke Algonquian Piscataway, a dialect of Nanticoke. One of their neighboring tribes, with whom they merged after a massive...

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Cucurbita maxima

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golden-orange flesh. Lakota squash is an American variety. Nanticoke squash was grown by the Nanticoke people of Delaware and Eastern Maryland. It is one of only...

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Nanticoke Generating Station

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The Nanticoke Generating Station was a coal-fired power station in Nanticoke, Ontario in operation from 1972 to 2013. It was the largest coal power station...

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Schuylkill River

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Jersey, but not into the state of Delaware — which was occupied by the Nanticoke people into the 1700s. Oxford Dictionary: definition of Schuylkill River (American...

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Choptank people

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parts of present-day Talbot, Dorchester and Caroline counties. They spoke Nanticoke, an Eastern Algonquian language closely related to Delaware. The Choptank...

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Native Americans in film

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James Young Johnson in Washington D.C. in 1876. He hails from the Nanticoke people of Delaware, and worked both as a director and actor. Some of his films...

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Algonquian peoples

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Tunxis Paugussett Quinnipiac Unquachog Miami Mi'kmaq Montaukett Mohegan Nanticoke Piscataway Nacotchtank Narragansett Niantic Nipissing Nipmuc Odawa Ojibwe...

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List of Maryland placenames of Native American origin

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of the Nanticoke people. Nanjemoy - named for the Algonquian-speaking Nanjemoy tribe. They were a sub-tribe of the Piscataway tribe. Nanticoke - named...

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Greater Nanticoke Area School District

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The Greater Nanticoke Area School District is a midsized, public school district in Luzerne County. The district is one of the 500 public school districts...

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Nanticoke Refinery

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The Nanticoke Refinery is an oil refinery in Nanticoke, Ontario, Canada. It is owned and operated by Imperial Oil, which is majority owned by ExxonMobil...

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Accomac people

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Feest, "Nanticoke and Neighboring Tribes," 240–41. Christian F. Feest, "Nanticoke and Neighboring Tribes," 241. Wolfe, Brendan. "Indigenous Peoples in Virginia"...

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Piscataway language

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(from the Iroquois ethnonym for the tribe), is considered a dialect of Nanticoke. This designation is based on the scant evidence available for the Piscataway...

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