Assateague people
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The Assateague (meaning: "swifly moving water")[1] were an Algonquian people speaking the Nanticoke language who historically lived on the Atlantic coast side of the Delmarva Peninsula (known during the colonial period as the Eastern Shores of Maryland and Virginia, and the Lower Counties of Pennsylvania).
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extinct as a tribe | |
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Eastern Shore of Maryland Eastern Shore of Virginia Delaware | |
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Nanticoke | |
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Chincoteague, Pocomoke |
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While there are living people who may have distant heritage from this tribe, the tribe itself no longer exists as a culturally intact tribal community.