- Fact 2 - These Indians were static
Woodland tribes of hunter fishers. Men were in charge of hunting for food
and protecting the camp and the women were in charge of the home
and land
- Fact 3 - Maryland - The Indians of
Maryland were the Lenape, Nanticoke, Piscataway, Conoy,
Powhatan, Accohannock,
Shawnee,
Susquehannock, Tutelo and Saponi tribes
- Fact 4 - Names of Border States:
Delaware, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia
- Fact 5 - Origin of the name of the
state: As a reference to Queen Henrietta Maria, wife of
England's King Charles I
- Fact 6 - Features of the area: Coastal plains, peidmont plateau, and the Blue Ridge, separated by the
Cheasapeake Bay
- Fact 7 - The Lenape tribe The
Lenape, also referred to as Lenapi or the Delaware Indians, are
a group of several organized bands. The "three sisters," corn
(maize), beans and squash were the staples of their diet,
supplemented by fish and game.
- Fact 8 - The Nanticoke tribe
Algonquian tribe living on Nanticoke River of Maryland, on the
east shore. They were distinguished from neighboring tribes by a
darker color. They were feared among other tribes as they were
believed to practise witchcraft and known to use poison
substances
- Fact 9 - The Conoy tribe, also
called Piscataway, tribe inhabited homelands on the western
shore of Chesapeake Bay in Maryland. They farmed maize, squash,
and beans as a supplement to their ordinary hunting-gathering
diet of fish, game, and wild plants
- Fact 10 - The Powhatan tribe
occupied the Virginia counties east of Chesapeake Bay and
included some tribes in lower Maryland.
- Fact 11 - The
Shawnee
were Algonquian-speaking tribes who were spread over a
widespread geographic area although their earliest known home
was in the state of Ohio. Traditionally the Shawnee lived in
bark-covered houses grouped into large villages near cornfields.
Many Shawnee fought as allies of their French trading partners
during the early years of the French and Indian War (aka Seven
Years War). In fact, the warlike Shawnee participated in almost
every war of the Old West. They were greatly feared as it was
their custom to torture their prisoners.
- Fact 12 - The Susquehannock tribe
did not mix with other tribes and lived in fortified villages as
illustrated below. Their name means "muddy water people," due to
the Susquehanna River nearby. However, during the Beaver Wars of
the 1650s, the Susquehannocks formed a short alliance with the
Province of Maryland, receiving rifles and other European
weapons to fight off the
Iroquois
Confederacy.
- Fact 13 - The Eastern Woodlands was
a cultural area of the indigenous peoples of North America
extending roughly from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi
River, and from the Great Lakes region to the Gulf of Mexico
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