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NATIVE AMERICAN RESOURCES
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Maryland Native American Resources MDGenWeb site!
My name is
Linda Simpson, and I am the
special topics coordinator for this website. I hope you enjoy your visit and
that you find the information posted here useful and informative. If you
have any questions about this page or comments on how I can make this site
better, please do not hesitate to contact me.
History
In 1632 King Charles I of England granted a land grant to George Calvert, Lord Baltimore, to form a colony north of the established Virginia Colony. The colony would be named Maryland in honor of King Charles' wife Queen Henrietta Maria. The boundary of the grant included all of present day Maryland and Delaware, and included all of the homeland of the Nanticokes as well as the Conoy, Piscataway and parts of many other tribal homelands including the Lenape, Powhatan, Susquehannock, Shawnee, and others. The first settlement in Maryland was at St. Mary's on the Potomac River on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay in 1634. The settlers were permitted to build their settlement there by the Potomac people who were already moving their villages further upstream to avoid the frequent raids by the Susquehannocks.
Tribes of Maryland
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Virginia's Indians Past and Present
Native
American Legacy
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