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In the 2010 census, about 20,000 Maryland residents, or 0.4% of the state, self-reported American Indian as their only race. More than 50,000 people in Maryland self-identified as being at least part American Indian, constituting 1.0% of the total state population. [ 13 ]
The Indian rose-ringed parakeet (P. k. manillensis) originates from the southern Indian subcontinent and has feral and naturalised populations worldwide, in Australia, Great Britain (mainly around London), the United States, and other Western countries. It is often referred to as the Indian ringneck parrot. [5] [6]
In the 18th century, the Maryland Colony nullified all Indian claims to their lands and dissolved the reservations. By the 1720s, some Piscataway as well as other Algonquian groups had relocated to Pennsylvania just north of the Susquehannah River. These migrants from the general area of Maryland are referred to as the Conoy and the Nanticoke.
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The Piscataway Indian Nation (/ p ɪ s ˈ k æ t ə ˌ w eɪ / or / p ɪ s k ə ˈ t ɑː w ə /, [1]), also called Piscataway Indian Nation Inc. is a state-recognized tribe in Maryland [2] who identify as descendants of the historic Piscataway people. [3]
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.
Some accounts say the name means "place where people trade" or "the place to which tribute is brought". [11] The natives called the river above the falls Cohongarooton , [ 12 ] translated as "river of geese", [ 13 ] and that area was renowned in early years for an abundance of both geese and swans.
In 1662, the English colony of Maryland made a treaty with the Assateagues (and the Nanticokes) whereby each colonist given land in the territory of the Assateagues would give the Assateague tribal chief (or "emperor", as he was inaccurately referred to by the colonists) six matchcoats (garments made of a rough blanket or frieze, heavy rough cloth with uncut nap on one side), and one matchcoat ...