Nanticoke people

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, Barry M. (2000). "Nanticoke". A Native American Encyclopedia: History, Culture, and Peoples. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 440–442. ISBN 978-0-19-513877-1.