Nentego

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Nentego is the autonym of the Nanticoke people, an Indigenous group historically located in the Mid-Atlantic region of what is now the United States.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Nentego canonical 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (30)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indigenous people
Native American tribe
ethnic group
autonymOf Nanticoke people
continent North America
countryNow United States
culturalRegion Eastern Woodlands
ethnonymType autonym
hasExonym Nanticoke
hasNameVariant Nanticoke (as external name)
linked to: Nanticoke

Nentego people
linked to: Tutelo people
historicalEra colonial period in North America
pre-Columbian North America
historicallyLocatedIn Delaware
Maryland
Virginia
languageFamily Algonquian languages
locatedInThePast Mid-Atlantic region of the United States
linked to: Mid-Atlantic states
partOf Algonquian-speaking peoples
recognizedAs Indigenous people of the United States
relatedGroup Lenape
Piscataway
Powhatan
traditionalEnvironment coastal estuaries
riverine wetlands
traditionalRegion Chesapeake Bay area
Delmarva Peninsula
traditionalSubsistence fishing
hunting
maize agriculture

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Nanticoke hasAutonym Nentego
Nentico ethnonymVariant Nentego