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Nan⋅ti⋅coke

  [nan-ti-kohk or, for 1, -koh]
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1. a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada, on Lake Erie. 19,816.
2. a city in E Pennsylvania. 13,044.

Nan⋅ti⋅coke

  [nan-ti-kohk]
–noun, plural -cokes, (especially collectively) -coke.
1. a member of an extinct North American Indian people who inhabited Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania.
2. the Algonquian language of the Nanticoke.
3. a member of a group of people of southern Delaware of mixed white, black, and Indian ancestry.
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Nan·ti·coke   (nān'tĭ-kōk')   
n.   pl. Nanticoke or Nan·ti·cokes

    1. A Native American people formerly inhabiting Delaware and eastern Maryland between Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic coast.

    2. A member of this people.

  2. The Algonquian language of the Nanticoke.

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Nanticoke

a confederacy of Algonquian-speaking North American Indians who lived along the eastern shores of what are now Maryland and southern Delaware; their name means "tidewater people." They were related to the Delaware and the Conoy. Nanticoke subsistence depended largely on fishing and trapping, and their social organization probably included a head chief, as well as subordinate chiefs of the various tribes. They were at war with the Maryland colonists from 1642 to 1678; in 1698 reservations were set aside for them. Sometime after 1722 most of the Nanticoke began moving northward, some settling with the Iroquois in what is now western New York state; many emigrated westward about 1784 and were incorporated into the Delaware tribe in what have become Ohio and Indiana

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