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The Piscataway Indian Nation inhabits traditional Piscataway homelands in the areas of Charles County, Calvert County, and St. Mary's County; all in Maryland. Its members now mostly live in these three southern Maryland counties and in the two nearby major metropolitan areas, Baltimore and Washington, D.C.
In the 2010 census, about 20,000 Maryland residents, or 0.4% of the state, self-reported American Indian as their only race. More than 50,000 people in Maryland self-identified as being at least part American Indian, constituting 1.0% of the total state population. [13]
There are approximately 326 federally recognized Indian Reservations in the United States. [1] Most of the tribal land base in the United States was set aside by the federal government as Native American Reservations. In California, about half of its reservations are called rancherías. In New Mexico, most reservations are called Pueblos.
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 ]
Piscataway Indian Nation and Tayac Territory headed by Billy Redwing Tayac, Indigenous rights activist and son of the late Chief Turkey Tayac; Piscataway Conoy Tribe, which is split between two tribal entities: [5] Piscataway Conoy Confederacy and Sub-Tribes; Cedarville Band of Piscataway Indians, led by Natalie Proctor. [33]
To escape persecution by settler society, some of the Piscataway migrated to settlements along the Susquehanna River into Virginia and Pennsylvania, [5] where the Iroquois gave them the name 'Conoy'. [3] In 1974 Turkey Tayac, Piscataway Indian leader, incorporated a non-profit organization called the "Piscataway-Conoy Indians." [6]
English: Boyd Rutherford, Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, visits the Piscataway Indian Museum and Cultural Center in Waldorf, Maryland. Date 3 April 2018, 11:56:32