Nanticoke Indian Museum
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Nanticoke Indian Museum
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Native American institutions provide a key source of knowledge to understand the history, legacy, and future of their communities.
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This museum is located in a former school building that is owned and operated by the Nanticoke Indian Association. It holds a collection of jewelry, pottery, spears, arrow points, and other artifacts designed to interpret the culture of Native Americans. The building features two rooms, the first of which displays tools such as thousands of arrowheads, pottery, and axe hammers, as well as an example of their village to show how their elders lived. It also features numerous works of art from their own tribal members as well as others. The second room has artifacts that date back to 8000 B.C. and a stage that displays traditional clothing as well as the animals from which the clothes were made. Also on exhibit is a wooden canoe that the men and boys of the tribe traveled in to collect fish, crabs, and other animals.
The Nanticoke Indian Museum is the only Native American Museum in the state of Delaware. The Federal Government has listed the Nanticoke Indian Museum as a National Historic Landmark, a distinction received only by 13 such sites within the Native American community.
English explorer and plunderer Captain John Smith named this indigenous community “Nanticoke” in 1608, consolidating several separate bands of related Native Americans known by the names Kuskarawaok, Nentego, Nantaquak and others.
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Millsboro, Delaware
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Native American life
Native American culture
Nanticoke Indians
Nanticoke Indian Association
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The Nanticoke Indian Tribe
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Physical: Undetermined, please contact the publisher for more information.
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Digital: 800 x 503 px
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The Nanticoke Indian Tribe
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Charles C. Clark IV, "The Nanticoke Story," Delaware Beach Life (September 2017): 48-55.