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Nanticoke people
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The Nanticoke people are a Native American Algonquian people, whose traditional homelands are in Chesapeake Bay and Delaware. Today they live in the Northeastern United States and Canada, especially Delaware; in Ontario; and in Oklahoma.[1]
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Total population | |
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Approximately 1,200 in 1600 1,000 (1990)[1] | |
Regions with significant populations | |
United States (Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland, Oklahoma), Canada (Ontario)[1] | |
Languages | |
English, formerly Nanticoke language | |
Religion | |
Native American religion, Christianity | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Assateague, Choptank, Conoy, Patuxent, Piscataway, Pocomoke[1] |
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The Nanticoke people consisted of several tribes: The Nanticoke proper (the subject of this article), the Choptank, the Assateague, the Piscataway, and the Doeg.