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 they continue to live in the Northeastern United States, especially Delaware, and in Oklahoma. They also live in Ontario, Canada, where some ancestors resettled with Iroquois nations after the Revolutionary War.
The Nanticoke people consisted of several tribes: The Nanticoke proper (the subject of this article), the Choptank, the Assateague, the Piscataway, and the Doeg.