1892
NANTICOKE INDIANS
RELICS
BEING SOUGHT
The
Pittsburg Headlight, a Pittsburg, Kansas newspaper, in it's
Thursday, August 11, 1892 issue posted the following news item from
Salisbury Maryland. Mr. Dinwiddie, from the National Bureau of
Ethnology and Archeology, has been on the Maryland Eastern Shore for
several days, seeking information of the long extink tribe of Indians
known as the Nanticokes. He has thransversed the entire length of the
Nanticoke River with local assistants, visiting the mounds and graves
of the tribe. At the riverside village of Riverton there was
considerable pottery found and one human skeleton unearthed which is
believed to be a long departed brave. There also was the skeleton
of a large huge framed dog , with savage teeth, indicating he being
of a savage existence. These Nanticoke Indians are supposed to have
departed these native hunting grounds about the year 1760 to move
westward.
No comments:
Post a Comment