Turkey Tayac
Turkey Tayac | |
|---|---|
| Piscataway Indian Nation and Tayac Territory leader | |
| Succeeded by | Billy Redwing Tayac (son) of Piscataway Indian Nation and Tayac Territory |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Philip Sheridan Proctor August 29, 1895 |
| Died | December, 1978 |
| Resting place | Moyaone Indian Burial Ground, Accokeek, Prince George's County, Maryland |
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Turkey Tayac, legally Philip Sheridan Proctor (1895–1978), was a leader and herbal medicine practitioner of what is now the Piscataway Indian Nation and Tayac Territory; he was notable in Native American activism for tribal and cultural revival in the 20th century. He had some knowledge of the Piscataway language and was consulted by the Algonquian linguist, Ives Goddard, as well as Julian Granberry.