Language portal Susquehannock, also known as Conestoga, is an extinct Iroquoian language spoken by the Native American people variously known as the Susquehannock...
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The Susquehannock, also known as the Conestoga, Minquas, and Andaste, were an Iroquoian people who lived in the lower Susquehanna River watershed in what...
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Indigenous peoples of Maryland (section Susquehannock)
American peoples after 1650, including the Assateagues, Nanticokes, and Susquehannocks. Various Native American reservations were also established during this...
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endangered) Cayuga (severely endangered) Onondaga (severely endangered) Susquehannock or Conestoga † Mohawk–Oneida Oneida (severely endangered) Mohawk Huronian...
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Powhatan (category Eastern Algonquian languages)
territories were in eastern Virginia. Their Powhatan language is an Eastern Algonquian language, also known as Virginia Algonquian. In 1607, an estimated...
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Thomas Siebert, Jr., some of the language has been reconstructed with assistance from better-documented Algonquian languages, and attempts are being made...
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Nanticoke people (section Language)
the Arseek, Cuscarawoc, and Nause. The Nanticoke language was distinct from the Algonquian languages spoken by tribes on the Western Shore of Maryland...
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Unami (Delaware: Wënami èlixsuwakàn) is an Algonquian language initially spoken by the Lenape people in the late 17th century and the early 18th century...
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pursued them to Maryland and killed a group of Doeg, as well as innocent Susquehannock. A Doeg war party retaliated by killing Mathew's son and two servants...
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Susquehanna River (category Articles containing Unami-language text)
their villages. A third account translates "Susquehanna" from the Susquehannock language, of the Iroquoian family, as "the stream that falls toward the south"...
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Susquehannock Tockwogh Yaocomico Historical languages Nanticoke language Piscataway language Powhatan language Susquehannock language Unami language Present...
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Piscataway people (section Language)
cleared new fields, hunted, and fished. By 1600, incursions by the Susquehannock and other Iroquoian peoples from the north had almost entirely destroyed...
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The United States does not have an official language at the federal level, but the most commonly used language is English (specifically, American English)...
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Nanticoke is an Algonquian language spoken in Delaware and Maryland, United States. The same language was spoken by several neighboring tribes, including...
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The Lenape were divided among speakers of three major dialects, with language groups occupying particular territories. Each major group was made up of...
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Piscataway is an extinct Algonquian language formerly spoken by the Piscataway, a dominant chiefdom in southern Maryland on the Western Shore of the Chesapeake...
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called Gullah-English, Sea Island Creole English, and Geechee) is a creole language spoken by the Gullah people (also called "Geechees" within the community)...
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Tayac intended the new colonial outpost to serve as a buffer against Susquehannock incursions from the north. In 1634 Tayac Chitimachen or Kittamaquund...
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Susquehannock Tockwogh Yaocomico Historical languages Nanticoke language Piscataway language Powhatan language Susquehannock language Unami language Present...
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Nacotchtank (section Language)
Piscataway language. The Piscataway language is a dialect of the Nanticoke language, which belongs to the Algonquian subfamily of languages. The Algonquian...
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The Alutiiq language (also called Sugpiak, Sugpiaq, Sugcestun, Suk, Supik, Pacific Gulf Yupik, Gulf Yupik, Koniag-Chugach) is a close relative to the Central...
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English colony in the first place. Moreover, Claiborne's erstwhile Susquehannock trading partners took their furs to the new Swedish trading post at...
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Susquehannock Tockwogh Yaocomico Historical languages Nanticoke language Piscataway language Powhatan language Susquehannock language Unami language Present...
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Maryland. They were an Algonquian-language tribe and were related to the Piscataway, another Algonquian-language tribe. Accokeek, Maryland, a small unincorporated...
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[nɑ̀ːpèːhópìz̥ɑ̀ːt]) is a Southern Athabaskan language of the Na-Dené family (proposed only), as are other languages spoken across the western areas of North...
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[dʒalaˈɡî ɡawónihisˈdî]) is an endangered-to-moribund Iroquoian language and the native language of the Cherokee people. Ethnologue states that there were 1...
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American Sign Language (ASL) is a natural language that serves as the predominant sign language of Deaf communities in the United States and most of Anglophone...
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Dorchester and Caroline counties. They spoke Nanticoke, an Eastern Algonquian language closely related to Delaware. The Choptank were the only Indians on the...
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1652 Articles of Peace and Friendship (category Susquehannock)
1652 between the Province of Maryland and the Susquehannock people. The treaty resulted in the Susquehannock conceding the majority of the land from the...
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