Nanticoke people
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| Approximately 1,200 in 1600 1,000 (1990) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| United States (Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland, Oklahoma), Canada (Ontario) | |
| Languages | |
| English, formerly Nanticoke language | |
| Religion | |
| Native American religion, Christianity | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Assateague, Choptank, Conoy, Patuxent, Piscataway, Pocomoke |
The Nanticoke people are a Native American Algonquian-speaking people, whose traditional homelands are in Chesapeake Bay area, including Delaware. Today their descendants continue to live in Oklahoma among the Delaware Nation and the Delaware Tribe of Indians, as well as on the Six Nations of the Grand River reserve in Ontario, Canada, where some ancestors resettled with the Iroquois after the Revolutionary War. Other descendants live in the Northeastern United States, especially Delaware.
The Nanticoke people consisted of several tribes: The Nanticoke proper (the subject of this article), the Choptank, the Assateague, the Piscataway, and the Doeg.