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Street said some Nanticokes took on European last names because “nobody knew how to translate” their native names.

From Washington Post • Nov. 28, 2021

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

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

Many fragments of tribes of Algonkin lineage—Delawares, Nanticokes, Mohegans, Mississagas—sought the same hospitable protection, which never failed them.

From The Iroquois Book of Rites by Hale, Horatio