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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 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.
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 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.
The leaders of the Annamessex and neighboring tribes signed a peace treaty with the English in 1678. [ 4 ] On May 6, 1686, leaders from the Annamessex and other Pocomoke people, headquartered at Askiminokonson met with the Land Office Commissioners of 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 ...