Nabb Research Center General Resources - People & Cultures

Native Americans of the Delmarva peninsula

Five Hundred Years on Five Thousand Acres
Thesis chapter detailing Contact-era interactions between the local Native American tribes of the Pocomoke and Assateague and English settlers. By Mercedes Quesada-Embid.

The Indians of the Lower Eastern Shore
Essay about the effects of colonization on 17th- and 18th-century Indians of the Lower Eastern Shore of Maryland. By Christine Richardson.

Map of Indian tribes in 1600
Delmarva Peninsula showing location of Indian tribes c. 1600. From C. A. Weslager's Delaware's Forgotten Folk: The Story of the Moors & Nanticokes (1943)

Map of Indian tribes in 1630
Delmarva Peninsula showing location of Indian tribes c. 1630. From Joannes De Laet's Nova Anglia, Novvm Belgivm Et Virginia map.

"Principal Portion of the Territory Ruled by Powhatan"
Map of tribal groups from C. Whittle Sams' Conquest of Virginia. Delmarva portion.