Accokeek people explained

Group:	Accokeek
Population:	Extinct as a tribe
Langs:	Eastern Algonquian
Rels:	Native American religion
Related:	Piscataway

The Accokeek were a group of Native Americans living in Southern Maryland at the time of English colonization.^[1] They lived along the Potomac River in present-day Prince George's County, Maryland. They were an Algonquian-language tribe and were related to the Piscataway, another Algonquian-language tribe.^[2]

Accokeek, Maryland, a small unincorporated town in Maryland, was named after the Accokeek^[3] tribe.^[4]

Accokeek means "at the edge of the hill".^[5]

Sources

• The prehistoric people of Accokeek Creek, p. 25

External links

• The First Marylanders
• Delaware CREP page

Notes and References

1. Web site: Native American Tribes & the Indian History in Accokeek, Maryland. 2019-05-01. American Indian COC. en-US. 2020-04-27.
2. Web site: A Brief History of Accokeek. 2019-08-21. Accokeek, Maryland. en-US. 2020-04-27.
3. Book: Bright, William. Native American Placenames of the United States. 21. 2004. University of Oklahoma Press. 0-8061-3576-X.
4. Web site: Maryland: Piscataway Park (U.S. National Park Service). www.nps.gov. en. 2020-04-27.
5. Web site: Accokeek . Arcadia Publishing . 13 July 2021.