Nanticoke

¹

[ nan-ti-kohk ]

noun

, plural Nan·ti·cokes, (especially collectively) Nan·ti·coke

1. a member of an Indigenous North American people who have traditionally inhabited Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania.
2. the Algonquian language of the Nanticoke.
3. a member of a group of people of southern Delaware with mixed white, Black, and Indigenous ancestry.

Nanticoke

²

[ nan-ti-kohk -koh ]

noun

1. a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada, on Lake Erie.
2. a city in E Pennsylvania.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Nanticoke¹

First recorded in 1640–50; from Nanticoke (an Eastern Algonquian language), the name of a place once inhabited by the tribe

Example Sentences

Short said the charter change is aimed at helping economic recovery efforts in Seaford, a town of about 8,000 situated on the banks of the Nanticoke River.

From Seattle Times

A member of the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape tribe in Delaware, she drove about 90 miles to attend a Native American powwow at the University of Maryland in College Park.

From Washington Post

In 1984, a onetime Nanticoke schoolhouse was transformed into the only Native American museum in Delaware.

From Washington Post

The creek, along with the Nanticoke River it feeds, is believed to be Maryland’s only sturgeon breeding ground.

From Washington Post

Called Lenapehoking, the original homeland of the Lenape and Nanticoke encompassed present-day New Jersey, most of Delaware and eastern New York and Pennsylvania.

From Washington Times