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The Piscataway Indian Nation (/ p ɪ s ˈ k æ t ə ˌ w eɪ / or / p ɪ s k ə ˈ t ɑː w ə /, [1]), also called Piscataway Indian Nation Inc. is a state-recognized tribe in Maryland [2] who identify as descendants of the historic Piscataway people. [3]
In December 2011, the Maryland Commission on Indian Affairs stated that the Piscataway had provided adequate documentation of their history and recommended recognition. On January 9, 2012, Gov. Martin O'Malley issued executive orders recognizing all three Piscataway groups as Native American tribes. As part of the agreement that led to ...
Maryland has no federally recognized tribes, but the state recognizes three tribes: the Piscataway-Conoy Tribe of Maryland, the Piscataway Indian Nation and Tayac Territory, and the Accohannock Indian Tribe. A state commission on Indian Affairs serves eight unrecognized tribes.
The Piscataway-Conoy were some of the first Native Americans to make contact with European settlers. Colonial expansion led to a 1666 treaty between tribal leadership and Lord Baltimore , resulting in the establishment of a reservation called Piscataway Manor.
The chief of the Piscataway was quick to grant the English permission to settle within Piscataway territory and cordial relations were established between the English and the Piscataway. [14] Beginning in the 1620s, English settlers from the Colony of Virginia began to trade with the Algonquians, in particular the Piscataway tribe of Southern ...
The Piscataway Chief, or tayac, held a loose confederacy over the Nacotchtank in addition to the other surrounding tribes. [12] The rank of the tayac was supreme to that of the individual chiefs of the smaller tribes that belonged to the Piscataway Chiefdom. [12] These lower-ranked chiefs were known as werences (also known as werowances ...
Despite relations with the Piscataway and the larger Powhatan Confederacy to the south, the Yaocomico had apparently decided to abandon the area before the arrival of Europeans. [4] Both the Yaocomico and their neighbors had been raided repeatedly by groups of Susquehannock warriors based further up the Chesapeake, along what the settlers named ...
Piscataway signed a treaty with William Penn in 1701. Many had settled near Conoy (their name to Iroquois-speakers ) creek in Pennsylvania by 1718. [ 13 ] In 1704, English settlers laid out the town of Piscataway, Maryland near or on the site of Kittamaqundi. [ 14 ]