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The Matapeake (also known as the Monoponson) were an Indigenous Algonquian people who lived on Kent Island, which they referred to as Monoponson in their language.The Matapeake, along with the Choptank, Lenape, and Nanticoke, were the four most prominent Algonquian tribes living in Maryland.
The U.S. Navy tugboat Choptank was named after the tribe. It served from 1918 until 1946. [15] The towns of Choptank, Maryland, and Choptank Mills, Delaware, [16] are named after the river. Fictional members of the tribe are characters in the early chapters of James Michener's 1978 novel, Chesapeake.
The Indigenous peoples of Maryland are the tribes who historically and currently live in the land that is now the State of Maryland in the United States of America. These tribes belong to the Northeastern Woodlands, a cultural region. Only 2% of the state's population self-reported as having Native American ancestry in the 2020 US census.
Non-native peoples encroached upon their lands, so the tribe purchased a 3,000-acre tract of land in 1707 on Broad Creek in Somerset County, Maryland (now Sussex County, Delaware). In 1742, the tribe met with neighboring tribes in nearby Wimbesoccom Neck to discuss a Shawnee plot to attack the local English settlers, but the gathering was ...
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 Chaptico, also known as the Cecomocomoco, [1] were a group of Native Americans who lived along the Southwestern shore of the Chesapeake Bay in what is today St. Mary's County, Maryland. They were loosely dominated by the Patuxent in the pre-colonial time.
Piscataway, Maryland; Mary Kittamaquund; Lake Kittamaqundi – A man made lake in Columbia, Maryland in 1966, named by The Rouse Company developers claiming "Kittamaqundi" translates to "friendly meeting place". [19] The Columbia Association and several writers have claimed that Kittamaqundi is the oldest known Native American settlement in ...
The Hoye Site or Hoye Prehistoric Indian Village site, now officially known as the Sang Run Site, is an archaeological site located within Garrett County, Maryland, near Oakland.