Nanticoke
noun
a member of an Indigenous North American people who have traditionally inhabited Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania.
Nanticokes
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pluralof Nanticoke.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Known as the “People of the Tide Water,” the Nanticokes had their traditional homelands in the Chesapeake Bay area and Delaware, and traded beaver pelts with the English.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 28, 2021
Leaders of both the Nanticokes and Lenapes said they had tried for years to buy the parcels, but they either couldn’t make the deal come together or they didn’t have enough money.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 28, 2021
Some Nanticokes moved from the area to Pennsylvania, New York and Canada.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 28, 2021
The land the Nanticokes recently acquired sits near a former one-room schoolhouse for Native American children that opened in the 1920s and closed in the 1960s.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 28, 2021
Legend of the "The Six Nanticokes" is referred to by Loskiel.
From Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 by James Athearn Jones
