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The Piscataway / p ɪ s ˈ k æ t ə ˌ w eɪ / pih-SKAT-ə-WAY or Piscatawa / p ɪ s ˈ k æ t ə ˌ w eɪ, ˌ p ɪ s k ə ˈ t ɑː w ə / pih-SKAT-ə-WAY, PIH-skə-TAH-wə, [4] are a Native American group indigenous to the east coast of North America . They spoke Algonquian Piscataway, a dialect of Nanticoke. One of their neighboring tribes ...
Piscataway is not spoken today, but records of the language still exist. According to The Languages of Native North America, Piscataway, otherwise called Conoy (from the Iroquois name for the tribe), was a dialect of Nanticoke. [3] This assignment depends on the insufficient number of accessible documents of both Piscataway and Nanticoke.
Piscataway (/ p ɪ ˈ s k æ t ə w eɪ / pih-SKAT-ə-way) is a township in Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. [17] It is a suburb of the New York metropolitan area , in the Raritan Valley .
Piscataway may refer to: Maryland (place) Piscataway, Maryland, an unincorporated community; Piscataway Creek, Maryland; Piscataway Park, historical park at the mouth ...
The Piscataway nation declined dramatically before the nineteenth century, under the influence of colonization, infectious disease, and intertribal and colonial warfare. The Piscataway Indian Nation organized out of a 20th-century revival of its people and culture. Its members are committed to Indigenous and human rights. It is one of three ...
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 ...
Piscataway The Mattawoman (also known as Mattawomen ) were a group of Native Americans living along the Western Shore of Maryland on the Chesapeake Bay at the time of English colonization. They lived along Mattawoman Creek in present-day Charles County, Maryland .
The 1666 Articles of Peace and Amity was a treaty signed on 20 April 1666 between the English colony of Maryland and 12 Eastern Algonquian-speaking Indigenous nations, including the Piscataway, Anacostanck, Doegs, Mikikiwomans, Manasquesend, Mattawoman, Chingwawateick, Hangemaick, Portobackes, Sacayo, Panyayo, and Choptico.