Conoy
The Conoy, also Piscataway called, were a algonkinsprechender Indian tribe, of the Lenni Lenape and the Nanticoke is related. They lived between the Potomac River and the western coast of Chesapeake Bay , present-day Maryland , USA . From old records it can be seen that they made their living mainly by hunting with bow and arrow on the abundant game and poultry in their residential area. Their dwellings were oval shaped.
In the 17th century, besieged by the Susquehanna , the rapidly diminishing Conoy fled up the Potomac and reached interior Pennsylvania . Little by little they moved up the Susquehanna River . In 1765 150 members of the tribe had reached southern New York under the rule of the Iroquois . With the Mahican and Lenni Lenape, who took them in, they moved west.
literature
- Bruce G. Trigger (Ed.): Handbook of North American Indians . Vol. 15. Northeast . Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington DC 1978 ISBN 0-16-004575-4