FDI - Conoy

The Conoy were a sedentary hunter/ farmer tribe. They lived between the Potomac River and the western shore of the Chesapeake. They probably lived on the Kanawha River prior to that. Most confederated with other tribes as a result of White pressure though some in their aboriginal territory claim ancestry.

Aboriginal Locations: Subdivisions (Subtribes)

Present Locations

MD Maryland Indian Heritage Society

Piscataway Conoy Condeferacy

Piscataway Indian Nation

Year	*History*
1634	Met by Smith and Maryland colonists, Jesuit mission established; population diminished rapidly, assigned tract near Washington
1670	Smallpox epidemic soon after this year
1675	Attacked by Susquehanna, moved up Potomac, later to Susquehanna R.
1742	Living at Conestoga, gradually moved northward
1765	Settled in southern New York, later 150 joined Delaware and Mahican

Year	Total MD Pop.	Source
1600	2,000	Mooney estimate
1700	1,000	NAHDB calculation
1800	50	NAHDB calculation
1900	50	NAHDB calculation
2000	200	NAHDB calculation

Conoy Sites:

Cedarville Band of Piscataway Indians http://www.piscatawayindians.org/

Conoy http://www.ontalink.com/native_americans/conoy.html

Conoy Authors http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/bin/browse.pl/t294

Conoy Indian Tribe http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/delaware/conoyindians.htm

Nanticoke Language http://www.native-languages.org/nanticoke.htm

Nanticoke Language http://www.ethnologue.com/14/show_language.asp?code=NNT

Nanticoke Linguistic Lineage http://www.ethnologue.com/14/show_lang_family.asp?code=NNT

Piscataway Conoy Indinas http://www.mdtechacademy.org/web2002/etubb/Piscataway%20Report.htm

Piscataway Conoy tribe loses bid for state recognition http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1065119255

Piscataway Indian Museum http://www.potomacheritage.org/pathfind/pimt.asp

Piscataway Indian Nation http://www.clubs.psu.edu/ma/camp/events/piscataway.html

Piscataway Indian Nation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piscataway_Indian_Nation

Piscatawy Indinas http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12114a.htm

Piscataway Nation http://www.piscatawaynation.org/

*Ethnie:*	CONOY (PISCATAWAY)
*Language:*	Nanticoke
*Family:*	Eastern Algonquian
*Stock:*	Algonquian
*Phylum:*	Algic
*Macro-Culture:*	Eastern Woodlands
Speakers	None