The three Piscataway tribal leaders representing the Piscataway Indian Nation and Tayac Territory, Piscataway-Conoy Tribe of Maryland, and Cedarville Band of Piscataway received official recognition as tribes from the State of Maryland in 2012. Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley is 2nd from right.
Total population
est. 4,103
Piscataway Indian Nation 103[1]
Piscataway-Conoy Tribe of Maryland 3,500[2]
Cedarville Band of Piscataway 500[3]
Regions with significant populations
United States ( Maryland)
Languages
English, formerly Piscataway
Religion
Roman Catholicism, big house religion.
Related ethnic groups
Mattawoman, Patuxent, Doeg, Nanticoke, Yaocomico
The Piscataway/pɪsˈkætəˌweɪ/ or Piscatawa/pɪsˈkætəˌweɪ,ˌpɪskəˈtɑːwə/,[4] are Native Americans. They spoke Algonquian Piscataway, a dialect of Nanticoke. One of their neighboring tribes, with whom they merged after a massive decline of population following two centuries of interactions with European settlers, called them the Conoy.
Two major groups representing Piscataway descendants received state recognition as Native American tribes in 2012: the Piscataway Indian Nation and Tayac Territory[5][6] and the Piscataway Conoy Tribe of Maryland.[5][7] Within the latter group was included the Piscataway Conoy Confederacy and Sub-Tribes and the Cedarville Band of Piscataway Indians.[5][8] All these groups are located in Southern Maryland. None are federally recognized.
^"Rebuttal of the Thomas Ford Brown Paper: 'Ethnic Identity Movements and the Legal Process: The Piscataway Renascence, 1974-2000'". Archived from the original on 2008-07-08. Retrieved 2009-08-15. Piscataway Nation and Tayac Territory, accessed 8 Oct 2009
^"Howard Libit, Piscataway Conoy continues tribal-status effort: Bill aims to circumvent rejections by 2 governors". Archived from the original on 2011-06-04. Retrieved 2009-08-15. Baltimore Sun, 4 Mar 2004, accessed 8 Oct 2009
^"About Us". Archived from the original on 2015-06-20. Retrieved 2015-03-09., Piscataway Indians
^Proctor, Natalie; and Proctor, Crystal (2014). Interview: Piscataway Indians. DC Women Eco-leaders Project. Archived from the original on 2021-12-14. Retrieved March 1, 2017. We are /pɪsˈkætəˌweɪ/ Indians, and that is actually the English way to say the name, and—/ˌpɪskəˈtɑːwə/.
^ abcWitte, Brian (2012-01-09). "Md. Formally Recognizes two American Indian Groups". NBC Washington. Retrieved 2012-01-10.
^"Piscataway Indian Nation and Tayac Territory". (retrieved 4 Jan 2011)
^"Piscataway Conoy Tribe of Maryland". (retrieved 4 Jan 2011)
^"The Cedarville Band of Piscataway Indians". Retrieved 4 January 2011.
The Piscataway /pɪsˈkætəˌweɪ/ or Piscatawa /pɪsˈkætəˌweɪ, ˌpɪskəˈtɑːwə/, are Native Americans. They spoke Algonquian Piscataway, a dialect of Nanticoke...
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Maryland that is descended from the historic Piscatawaypeople. At the time of European encounter, the Piscataway was one of the most populous and powerful...
Piscataway is an extinct Algonquian language formerly spoken by the Piscataway, a dominant chiefdom in southern Maryland on the Western Shore of the Chesapeake...
Mary Kittamaquund (c. 1634 – c. 1654 or 1700), daughter of the Piscataway chieftain Kittamaquund, helped establish peaceful relations between English immigrants...
such as the Piscataway (who spoke Eastern Algonquian), practised a seasonal economy. The basic social unit was the village: a few hundred people related by...
First World War. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. pp. 41–60. ISBN 978-1-4632-0730-4. Hanish, Shak (2015). "Assyrians". Native Peoples of the World: An Encyclopedia...
now living in Baltimore belong to the Lumbee, Piscataway, and Cherokee peoples. The Piscatawaypeople live in Southern Maryland and are recognized by...
Turkey Tayac, legally Philip Sheridan Proctor (1895–1978), was a Piscataway leader and herbal medicine practitioner; he was notable in Native American...
region. Southern Maryland was originally inhabited by the indigenous Piscatawaypeople. English explorer Captain John Smith explored the area in 1608 and...
River and moved south into Maryland. They erected a palisaded village on Piscataway Creek, but in September 1675, the Susquehannock were besieged by militias...
Nanticoke people consisted of several tribes: The Nanticoke proper (the subject of this article), the Choptank, the Assateague, the Piscataway, and the...
Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. She is a member of the Piscataway Nation from southern Maryland. Tayac is active in matters of indigenous...
"to be educated among the English". This included the daughter of the Piscataway Indian chief Tayac, which exemplifies not only a school for Indians, but...
tribes, but the state recognizes three tribes: the Piscataway-Conoy Tribe of Maryland, the Piscataway Indian Nation and Tayac Territory, and the Accohannock...
Creek). Associated with them were other nearby Algonquian peoples — the Moyauns (Piscataway) on the Maryland side, and the Nacotchtank (Anacostan) in...
Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands in Canada and the United States. They are an Iroquoian Native American and First Nations people, based in...
), Emerging Voices: Experiences of Underrepresented Asian Americans, Piscataway, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, pp. 90–108, ISBN 978-0-8135-4341-3. Dawis...
Stadium located in Piscataway, New Jersey. Howard Bison (0-0) vs Rutgers Scarlet Knights (0-0) – Game summary at SHI Stadium • Piscataway, New Jersey Date:...
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